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You should almost make it a documentary.

by kill_nate_kill 7y ago

duncanawoods 7y ago
Yes! I’d pay more for real world business documentaries than anything on netflix.
- echelon 7y ago
  Please actually do this. Find a way to get Verizon to sign off on this, and then get in touch with an established documentary maker. Pair them with an engineer and follow the story of the migration efforts. It will take time, and it'll certainly have a narrative. Nothing like this has been done before. I struggle with making what I do relatable to people, but having a technical or semi-technical documentary following this large project would be eye-opening. We'll even crowd fund this if you give us the chance. I'm not kidding. Please, please, please make this migration a documentary film.
  - artpi 7y ago
    From the documentaries I've seen, its lots of people walking to a meeting, meetings themselves, etc. For that kind of documentary, probably people walking into servers rooms, or having heated discussions. In Automattic, we basically evolved to remove all that :) There would be basically zoom calls and slack discussions. The most ambitious project I worked on in Automattic were just me, looking at the code and trying to understand why something is happening. Or looking up Stripe documentation. We get to sit in front of our laptops in nice places though :)
    - echelon 7y ago
      We don't need server rooms. We need discussions about how to untangle integrations of your user model with Verizon/Yahoo's auth system, how you'll consolidate all the microservices, which ongoing migrations you'll halt, the puzzled looks you'll have at undocumented code that performs nested eager-loaded lazy migrations of data, etc. I've been involved in a multi-year migration effort. I expect this may be the same for y'all. It'd be fun to have an account of something that is so prolific and well known.
    - prepend 7y ago
      This would be an interesting new type of documentary. A few shots of people with laptops on beaches around the world to establish characters, then just animated slack chats, terminal sessions and whiteboard sessions.
    - echelon 7y ago
      Follow-up: these are two of my most upvoted comments. A lot of people want to see this. :)
- Corrado 7y ago
  Actually, you could pitch the idea to Netflix. It sounds like something they might do. And, yes, I would watch it. :)
  - fumar 7y ago
    Verizon wouldn’t risk having negative publicity from a documentary. Not to be a buzzkill but seems too left of center for them.
adreamingsoul 7y ago
As a software engineer and independent filmmaker, I fully support this idea of creating a documentary (if one hasn't already been started).
discordianfish 7y ago
Or disaster movie.
pawelk 7y ago
This is a fantastic idea. I imagine similar form to "Some Kind of Monster", the documentary about Metallica. It's mostly the band meeting, discussing ideas, playing some music, struggling with internal tensions and personal issues etc. I'm not even a huge fan of the band, but it was a very entertaining watch and I think it would be almost guaranteed that such a massive project will result in many interesting stories.

You should almost make it a documentary.

duncanawoods 7y ago

Yes! I’d pay more for real world business documentaries than anything on netflix.

echelon 7y ago
Please actually do this. Find a way to get Verizon to sign off on this, and then get in touch with an established documentary maker. Pair them with an engineer and follow the story of the migration efforts. It will take time, and it'll certainly have a narrative. Nothing like this has been done before. I struggle with making what I do relatable to people, but having a technical or semi-technical documentary following this large project would be eye-opening. We'll even crowd fund this if you give us the chance. I'm not kidding. Please, please, please make this migration a documentary film.
- artpi 7y ago
  From the documentaries I've seen, its lots of people walking to a meeting, meetings themselves, etc. For that kind of documentary, probably people walking into servers rooms, or having heated discussions. In Automattic, we basically evolved to remove all that :) There would be basically zoom calls and slack discussions. The most ambitious project I worked on in Automattic were just me, looking at the code and trying to understand why something is happening. Or looking up Stripe documentation. We get to sit in front of our laptops in nice places though :)
  - echelon 7y ago
    We don't need server rooms. We need discussions about how to untangle integrations of your user model with Verizon/Yahoo's auth system, how you'll consolidate all the microservices, which ongoing migrations you'll halt, the puzzled looks you'll have at undocumented code that performs nested eager-loaded lazy migrations of data, etc. I've been involved in a multi-year migration effort. I expect this may be the same for y'all. It'd be fun to have an account of something that is so prolific and well known.
  - prepend 7y ago
    This would be an interesting new type of documentary. A few shots of people with laptops on beaches around the world to establish characters, then just animated slack chats, terminal sessions and whiteboard sessions.
  - echelon 7y ago
    Follow-up: these are two of my most upvoted comments. A lot of people want to see this. :)
Corrado 7y ago
Actually, you could pitch the idea to Netflix. It sounds like something they might do. And, yes, I would watch it. :)
- fumar 7y ago
  Verizon wouldn’t risk having negative publicity from a documentary. Not to be a buzzkill but seems too left of center for them.

adreamingsoul 7y ago

As a software engineer and independent filmmaker, I fully support this idea of creating a documentary (if one hasn't already been started).

discordianfish 7y ago

Or disaster movie.

pawelk 7y ago

This is a fantastic idea. I imagine similar form to "Some Kind of Monster", the documentary about Metallica. It's mostly the band meeting, discussing ideas, playing some music, struggling with internal tensions and personal issues etc. I'm not even a huge fan of the band, but it was a very entertaining watch and I think it would be almost guaranteed that such a massive project will result in many interesting stories.