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> you do not simply go and poke your reporting fingers into individual service databases Side point: This is a needlessly hostile and unprofessional way to ref
by sequoia 7y ago
> you do not simply go and poke your reporting fingers into individual service databases
Side point: This is a needlessly hostile and unprofessional way to refer to a colleague. Remember that you and the reporting/analytics people at your company are working towards the same goals (the company's business goals). You are collaborators, not combatants.
You can express your same point by saying something like "The habit of directly accessing database resources and building out reporting code on this is likely to lead to some very serious problems when the schemas change. This is tantamount to relying upon a private API." etc.
We can all achieve much more when we endeavor to treat one another with respect and assume good intentions.
- cheese4242 7y agoThis is an incredible overreaction to an entirely innocuous comment.
- frockington1 7y agoI've noticed reporting/analytics people going extinct around my workplace as micro services make monitoring easier. There might be some pent up hostility towards the technology side
- sequoia 7y agoIf you think telling colleagues not to "simply go and poke your reporting fingers into" things won't insult them or put them on a defensive footing, I encourage you to try it and closely note the reception you receive. In my experience, people do not appreciate being spoken to like that.
- p1necone 7y agoThey didn't tell their colleagues to do that, they made a slightly humorous comment on a hacker news thread.
- sequoia 7y agoWe’re colleagues by virtue of the fact that we’re members of the same profession. Anyway, what’s the reason not to treat people on hackernews with the same respect you’d treat a coworker with?
- ukyrgf 7y agoI think I prefer the poking around analogy. I can immediately visualize why it's bad, and it doesn't have the word "tantamount".