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I'm wondering why there wasn't any push for the Kafka guy to share his knowledge within his team, or to other teams?

• freedomben 1y ago
  Multiple factors (neither a good excuse, just reality): * Lack of interest for other team members, which translated to doing what they thought was a sufficiently minimal amount of knowledge transfer * An (unwise) attitude that "it's already set up and configured, and terraformed, so we can just acquire that knowledge if and when it's needed" * Kafka guy left a lot faster than anybody really expected, not leaving much time and practically no documentation * The rest of the team was already overwhelmed with other responsiblities and didn't have much bandwidth available * Nobody wanted to be the person/people that ended up "owning" it, so there was a reverse incentive
  • kragen 1y ago
    Interesting, thanks!