Matt Kuritz
@_kuritz
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Staff Engineer and Tech Lead @thefarmersdog. Organizer @devopsdaysnyc. Learner @LFISoftware. Bluesky: @kuritz.dev
Miami, FL
Joined July 2019
lol we built farmers dog with dogs running around the office at all times. i stepped away to clean up so many accidents, and none of the dogs were mine.
If you want to understand why your 22-28 year old staff have wildly confused understanding of professional norms - there's currently a (mildly satirical) LinkedIn post by a WFH SDR talking about how he spends a bunch of time throughout his "average day" changing diapers of his
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Ah! You should pay other companies to do it, always, to the extent that they can. But every company needs a (thin?) layer of customization between their PaaS and their applications. Glue code, pipelines, component configs. That you will always have to build yourself.
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Let’s make this a thing! :) I actually just did it at @DevOpsDaysPHL Who’s next?
“No one tells the story of the incident that didn’t happen.” -- @allspaw
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The first Platform Engineering NY meetup is being planned for June! Have a talk for the community? Reach out to myself, @sudomateo, @clesleycode, or @sfurino
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Truth, unfortunately. Also doesn’t matter if you work in tech.
Feels like if you’re Jewish and work in tech, Miami is the best city to be in the US right now
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Probably a good time to shout out that we're hiring Senior Engineering Manager Senior Platform Engineer Senior Software Engineer Director of Product Management Group Product Manager, Health Platform Senior Product Manager, Trial & Subscriber Experience https://t.co/bP721PHroo
thefarmersdog.com
Join our team and help us change the way people take care of their pets. Must love dogs!
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This was a ton of fun! Got to share a bit how thinking about engineering in terms of platform and product at TFD, among a few other things :)
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I got 3-4 fresh React dramas on my feed right now. Here’s what I suggest we do about it: Shrooms
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The difference with hooks and actions is they’re purely convenience. Best to avoid unless your really confident you can establish enforce a correct, strict standard for usage.
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Theres a lot of flexible software that lets you hurt yourself. Git, jenkins, k8s are some things that come to mind for me, and they get there share of flack (especially k8s).
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Server actions is the frontend version of sequelize hooks. A lot of people are going to find themselves in a world of hurt in a few years.
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I can’t believe this is happening soon!
Save the session: Join @clesleycode from @nytimes as we dive into DevOps sociotechnical principles, community-driven support systems, and platform architecture, all through the lens of the feature development cycle. https://t.co/dYbdExCrLf
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But over the long run we strive and take steps towards providing a higher degree of ownership for our product teams. The platform team should support and be a resource, but never a blocker or required handoff to deliver product.
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A question we are currently considering is if and how we should automate or allow self-provisioning of cloud infra by product teams. We currently collaborate on terraform PRs using atlantis. In general, we prefer to focus on the fundamentals and avoid building the wrong thing.
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We currently support 2 golden paths that teams regularly leverage to launch a new service in a few days. There is still a lot of opportunity for improvement on these, and have a 3rd in the works.
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The platform team has made it effortless for our product engineers to adopt continuous deployment as the standard for 100% of our applications. We also strive to practice true continuous integration. As a result, we now regularly exceed 1 deploy/dev/day:
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