jadams3

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by jadams3 4y ago
I am not a great fan of agile and people that argue strongly for it. I like tools that encourage critical thinking and design development docs, well defined prototypes, and working on customer requirements docs. I think Agile in it's
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by jadams3 4y ago
In my experience, definitions of managers and what they should be doing varies widely. A lot of developers I meet these days put a pretty narrow scope on what constitutes 'management'. The bar is pretty low, and seems to get hot
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by jadams3 4y ago
Coded for 10 years, been a manager or higher roughly the same period of time. What knocked me out of coding ... you should always give your best work to your people ... don't steal it, never block the team, and do the work your team do
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by jadams3 4y ago
GKE user in that region, we are down. I think it's deceptive to say it's a single zone. We have VMs across three zones, but anything stateful on zone a is stranded, we can't get the volumes back. It's not just that the
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by jadams3 6y ago
The most useful piece of advice I have gotten for estimates is that they are all junk until someone sits down and tries to do the work. For big jobs, 20% of it, small jobs pushing 50% of the work. In every single case when you've done
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by jadams3 6y ago
Started small with k8s / gke, suffered a lot, coming to appreciate it as we grow. I think over the last 1-2 years there weren't a lot of other choices. Knowing what I know now, I think if you are successful something like k8s is
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by jadams3 7y ago
I make a point of asking people how are they doing at the start of one on one meetings. 9/10 people say 'good', and we go to other topics. 1/10 has something to say, and that's ok too. It's a small thing, bu
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by jadams3 7y ago
Surprised I haven't read this in thread yet, but isn't this Issue what makes homekit enabled routers appealiNg when they finally release ? As I understand it the router can isolate Internet access on a per device basis. Yes you
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by jadams3 7y ago
This. I have a really hard time measuring it, but ever since we really worked on error reporting our week-end sleep factor has greatly improved. For a complex system though, don't under estimate how hard this is to do though ... - Eve