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My commentary has two parts. First, about the topic. The title, "Real-world SRE: What not FAANG companies are doing," implies that the series is going to look
by bovermyer 6y ago
My commentary has two parts.
First, about the topic. The title, "Real-world SRE: What not FAANG companies are doing," implies that the series is going to look at how the majority of companies (as in, not startups) are implementing SRE. This is not the approach; rather, this specific article divides the world into either FAANG or SV-style startups, and ignores everything else. That's not a microcosm I'm interested in.
Second, about the writing style. The stuttering caused by using sentence fragments everywhere is really jarring. It's so bad that I couldn't focus on the actual content. Normally I'm not much of a stickler for grammar, but in this case, it's distracting.
- andriosr 6y agoReally interesting, great feedback, thanks! This is the first issue, so this is very welcome to make sure the following are better. My goal is to actually make it for the a diverse set of companies, this is only the first one. Noted on the style! I'm probably biased by all the SEO/marketing stuff I read. Should improve readability for humans instead of machines (Google), thanks, will work on that.
- bovermyer 6y agoI'm glad to hear this. The concept is really solid, and I'll be paying attention to future entries in the series!
- quickthrower2 6y agoForget SEO! The way you wrote his comment is nice. Write like that. I’m not sure you can even “write for SEO” in 2020. Maybe in 2012 you could. If you are talking about keyword stuffing etc. Making the article readable and people want to share it is paramount.
- czbond 6y agoOne definitely can write with SEO in mind to make considerable differences in repeatable, organic traffic (in conjunction with numerous other accretive layers).
- stedaniels 6y agoAs another point on the the metrics... I had exactly the same interpretation of the title and also left disappointed.
- tn890 6y ago>implies that the series is going to look at how the majority of companies (as in, not startups) are implementing SRE That's exactly what I was expecting as well. >either FAANG or SV-style startups, and ignores everything else SV in a nutshell. Also obviously only North America exists.
- jwcrux 6y ago> Hash is a Brazilian fintech building the next-generation of payments infrastructure. In general I agree with the point you're making, though.
- slowhand09 6y agoSV? Playing catch-up here.
- joshmarlow 6y agoI think in this context, SV === Silicon Valley
- nwsm 6y ago>Also obviously only North America exists. Did you... read the article?
- NationalPark 6y agoIs the "everything else" really something you want to read about? So what if the majority of businesses are using FTP to upload new php files from the "website_latest_final_2" directory? We know that's not good, what is there to learn?
- bovermyer 6y agoThe arrogance and ignorance in this comment are staggering. I want to read about transitions. I want to see how late-adopter and mainstream companies go from old, manual processes to modern, automated processes. As someone who's been in both slow-moving federal government agencies and bootstrapped startups with the latest tech, I've seen a wide variety of tech journeys happen, and it's fascinating.