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Yes, you should go talk to compliance. But for a lot less effort, you could ignore it and talk to no one.


Yes, you should go talk to compliance. But for a lot less effort, you could ignore it and talk to no one.

Pulling together that meeting would only be if someone is complaining. That's what I meant by people having challenges. The goal being to head it off before it turns into a internal chat system flame-war or an HR issue that tries to single people out for blame. Hopefully people at the top will not be concerned for petty issues and are professional enough to put it to rest. It is a normal part of a companies maturing process.


The prioritizations are about profit, the queue’s structure is still about efficiency.

Prioritization is about profit is true whether we’re talking about airports, theme parks, or background worker processes.


I recently witnessed an argument between a dev manager and the devops team lead.

The manager manager was convinced that fixing all of the bugs would lead to perfect, 100% successful execution. The devops team lead spent an hour trying to explain why the software couldn’t achieve better reliability than AWS (the system spread across AWS zones, but each instance was contained within a single zone).


This sounds like a possible explanation for why I keep getting recommended different AWS client libraries from the boss to "solve instability" of a service that works 99.8% except for when the S3 endpoint (backblaze) has brief mystery issues.


100% successful execution is possible, assuming

1. You can guarantee no bugs in your system

2. You can guarantee no bugs in AWS's systems

3. You can guarantee there's no nuclear attacks on us-east-1 within the next year or so


You've entirely forgotten routine hardware failure. At large enough scale all sorts of weird stuff happens.


No cosmic rays ;)


And no network cables or ISPs...


I’d love to hear more about your experiences!

I’m the author of the post and co-host of the never rewrite podcast. Last episode we discussed Khan Academy’s 3.5 year rewrite.

https://youtu.be/LqAkIkNs1Ws?si=d3y6J2C6Q3T8qTyF

Jeffrey dot Sherman at gmail

Would truly love to hear about your experience


Author of the post here -

Lots of comments about the piece being a short opinion piece without evidence. Totally fair!

If you’d like to learn more I have a podcast, https://www.neverrewrite.com/

Our latest episode is about Khan Academy’s 3.5 year migration from Python to Go.

https://youtu.be/LqAkIkNs1Ws?si=INgD-QVDhL8INH8e


Exactly right!


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