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Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]
- impish9208 2y ago“Need Salesfroce access ASAP for client meeting” “Coffee machine in back kitchen wont connect to internet” (On an unrelated note, TIL that you can highlight text to copy/translate etc directly from a YouTube video on an iPhone. I knew you could do that from pictures but never thought to try videos until now.)
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- falcor84 2y ago> “Coffee machine in back kitchen wont connect to internet" I think that was a reference to the 1998 April Fool's Day RFC protocol HTCPCP [0]. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324
- kratom_sandwich 2y agoPiggybacking to recommend another video of his, "The Hustle", which is a fast-paced memefest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
- el_cujo 2y ago"Microservices" will always be my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
- DoctorDabadedoo 2y agoMine is "leadership sync": https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=K02Vsl7UhiUHos06 https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=K02Vsl7UhiUHos06 If you ever worked in a dysfunctional org this video speaks volumes.
- swyx 2y agothis signal the death of the passive aggressive "take this offline" for me also favorite comment "This video captures the absolute weirdness of millennials and zoomers inheriting the bureaucratic systems created by baby boomers"
- mk12 2y agoI find it weird how so much generation discussion seems to skip gen x. I see references to boomer, millennial, and zoomer/gen z way way more often than gen x.
- Apocryphon 2y agoGen X’s arc was going from Reality Bites/Wayne’s World slacker grunge culture into the stultifying white collar Office Space of the Matrix and then disappearing from the zeitgeist entirely after 9/11 made Fight Club’s ending sort of real.
- pram 2y agoAs a Genuine Millennial (1986) who works around a lot of Gen X, I don't really perceive much of a difference between us tbh.
- dpkirchner 2y agoWe are the "meh" generation -- I'm happy we're overlooked.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoThese are all great, and for me it's even weird to pick a favorite because somehow he's managed to put so much genius into all of those videos and in so many multifaceted ways, it's beyond me. What kind of job/career experience has he had to come up with all of that, so creatively and accurately? I just don't get how he can have had all this experience and at the same time be able to come up with those creative videos while still holding those insights. Because there's so many clever little things implying he's seen a lot. And created those videos in parallel.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y agoI was recently reading an article by a Twitter engineering team member discussing how they're reworking a microservice and kept expecting them to mention Galactus at some point. It lives rent-free in my head. This video is a true masterpiece.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoI like to sneak in a Galactus reference during system design interview rounds when I feel like I'm about to overengineer the whole thing. I haven't done many recently, but for sure if I'm doing interview rounds, I will try to sneak in some Krazam references.
- steveBK123 2y agoFor me its Microservices and the whole Senior Engineer video (and especially the outtakes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoH15ylAeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoH15ylAeo Gotta go get my new shipment of caterpillars. Astral Plane combat ftw.
- Apocryphon 2y agoTheir commercial is a low-key banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJwGSUhRQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJwGSUhRQA
- mewpmewp2 2y agoIt's too clever and perfect - with all the cheese, and productivity messaging trying to make you insecure and everything with a corporate contrarian appeal. Everything Krazam is just so great writing down to detail.
- einichi 2y agoPositive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s&pp=ygUGa3JhemFt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s&pp=ygUGa3JhemFt this hit so close to home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry
- xarope 2y agofor a few seconds I thought he was describing OAuth and OpenID... /j
- lordleft 2y agoI've enjoyed Krazam's other videos, but at the risk of having the joke explained (and thus spoiled), what exactly is this lampooning? Not asking from a critical place, I legitimately am curious about dysfunctional business processes at other companies and want to know if people really are drowning in SaaS access requests
- JohnMakin 2y agoLol, yes, you can extend this same bit to any team that deals with a lot of ops. Usually goes like this - Too many requests come in for one team to handle. No budget to hire more bodies, or maybe you've already reached a point where that will no longer scale - the work can usually be automated completely, but stopping and taking the time to automate it will result in a 100% loaded team KPI's dropping significantly, meaning you'll almost never get management buy-in or any time to do it, leaving you in a perpetual cycle of manual work requests flooding in like in this scene. I was kind of hoping the ending would be his tool worked and they all got laid off - actually seen this happen.
- jldugger 2y agoPersonally, I was expecting him to solve the problem but then be faced with a "now you have 18 standards" problem of having to approve access to his new tool via tickets.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoPersonally I think the successful automation ending would've been "too satisfactory and perfect". Real life is not that. I felt the video was relatable to me in many frequent situations where I would like to automatize some sort of process, but I end up being overly enthusiastic, because I'm so biased towards automating routineus activities. I frequently end up spending more time automating something than it would've been worth to just do it couple of times. I end up creating PoCs that don't entirely work in situations like those and the demos can fail, because I got bored at some point and didn't check thoroughly enough, so this video made me cringe at myself. I do feel however that this was just one layer of this video, and the other layer is about the other side where manual processes are preferred for irrational reasons over automation, so I think this video accurately reflected all sides of the story. Automating vs doing something routineusly is a balancing and tolerance act.
- zeristor 2y agoN-Dimensional Identity Prism
- tsunamifury 2y agoGaia nightmares resonating...
- siliconc0w 2y agoYou can kinda implement the 'strangler pattern' for this kind of ticket toil. The tool scrapes the ticket queue, tries to do what it can, either it is successful and closes out the ticket or updates it with a new state of what it was able to achieve (if anything) and hands it back to the humans. You can start with only the most basic tickets and then slowly start to expand its scope and capabilities to handle more patterns and edge cases.
- tengbretson 2y agoForget doing any of that until the OmegaStar finally ships, though.
- nicbou 2y agoThis is probably the smartest way to automate things. Replace the manual process bit by bit, leaving humans to deal with the trickier or less expected parts.
- AndrejSafundzic 2y agoI wasn't involved in the process at all but I saw the creation of this video. I just want to say that I was mind-blown how much work these KRAZAM puts into their videos. Just the mural on the whiteboard took them multiple hours - and, that's for a few seconds of the video. Unbelievable how much love is put into something. And, it sounds weird but really touching to see creatives do something that they truly love.
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- timetraveller26 2y agoI loved the Tree of Life reference, I want something like that printed out and put it next to my highly effective pyramid of success.
- ryanrandom 2y agohunting for easter eggs, I found that https://www.saasiroth.com https://www.saasiroth.com is an actual site and it contains the full manifesto. crazy.
- miles 2y agoGreat find! Try logging in 4 times to be redirected to: https://www.lumos.com/ https://www.lumos.com/
- teractiveodular 2y agoSurely you mean the Conjoined Triangles of Success?
- JohnMakin 2y ago> Just the mural on the whiteboard took them multiple hours - and, that's for a few seconds of the video This is the absolute funniest few seconds though, the mural combined with the way it was shot and the classic BWOOOOOOMP soundtrack in the background actually had me crying laughing. it’s so good
- alphazard 2y agoThis is obviously satire, but a significant problem organizations have as they scale is maintaining good taste--recognizing good solutions when they are presented. Simply put, if that packet with a plan to automate away an entire department existed and was on a conference room table, no one would connect it to the business's bottom line. It would just go unnoticed. A typical corporate America manager would be unable to comprehend that something valuable was created that they were not asked to produce by their manager, and they did not ask their team to produce.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoIf it was tied to their salary they would absolutely care, but otherwise it's just one line item during a performance review that someone might or might not care about at all, because politics matter more during performance reviews.
- hoten 2y ago"they said there's nothing under the sun in I.T. solutions" I can't tell if this is a mistake or an intentional 3D-chess level joke. I love it.
- spondyl 2y agoShout outs to Shiva who has appeared in some videos but is often behind the camera so doesn't get enough recognition as being the other half of their duo :)
- profsummergig 2y ago"SaaSiroth" seems to be an inside joke. Anyone know what it points to? Also, please feel free to list other inside jokes in the video. I could see lots of potential ones, including the oil barrel.
- titanomachy 2y agoSaaSiroth is a combination of the acronym SaaS meaning “software as a service”, and the “Sephiroth” of Jewish mysticism. The diagram on the front page and blackboard in the video is a representation of the Sephiroth, the Jewish Kabbalistic tree of life. It’s something to do with Jewish metaphysics and cosmogony, but it’s very esoteric, may you have better luck making sense of it than I! Instead of the “ten emanations” of Kabbalah, the diagram in the video contains concepts from the technical domain of Identity and Access Management (IAM). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefirot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefirot
- lbotos 2y agoI'm 99% sure they were referencing evangelion's use: https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Life https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Life (which if you haven't watched it's strange but I think for most hackers you'd vibe with it)
- brycelarkin 2y agoThose last 30 seconds of the video, trying to get the demo to work for a group of people is so relatable.
- guadalupe4151 2y ago[dead]
- nxobject 2y agoAnother easter egg: Hagoromo chalk! Only the best if you’re creating diagrams that cover an entire wall. (Word of advice I recorded from a math professor who had brilliant boardwork: you can never make a blackboard diagram too large.)
- domano 2y agoThe slack notification noise triggered me to check Slack frantically in case i was mentioned, but there was nothing. Slack really has us conditioned well.