"If there's no trade-off, there's no strategy." -@Lethain #qconsf

🚀 Session: "Disaster Recovery Across a Million Pieces". @michellebrush, Engineering Director, SRE @Google, challenges, patterns, and practices for disaster recovery actions in massively #distributedsystems: https://t.co/RcIeStqoKC #Resilience #SoftwareArchitecture #QConSF

Excited to be talking about disaster recovery at QCon San Francisco tomorrow!

Recipes for Blameless Accountability https://t.co/J6bJRYriEy by @michellebrush

When execs ask for bad metrics, give them "veggies in the pasta sauce" by serving the metric with context and recommendations. - @v_hue_g from #QConNY

Postmortems shouldn't be action item factories. If the fixes never get done, folks lose trust in the process. - @v_hue_g at #QConNY

The only systems without incidents are ones that aren't changing or aren't being used. Incidents are part of the system lifecycle. They're how systems learn, and how we build resilience. - from @v_hue_g at #QConNY

Continuous Delivery is not just about feature delivery. It's more about reliability. How fast can you deploy a fix without cutting corners in your testing and delivery strategy? - paraphrasing @BryanFinster in his talk on Agile Rehab at #QConNY

"If it prevents us from delivering today's work today, it's a defect." - @BryanFinster at #QConNY

"Just because something is in a spec, doesn't mean it's true." - Radia Perlman #QConNY

Morning #QConNY! I’ll be speaking about Serverless Database Architectures at 1:40pm. And looking forward to Stephanie Wu’s talk about using DuckDB for remote query execution at 4:10pm. I’ll try to live-tweet some of the talks, for everyone following from home.

Excited to announce I’ll be a track host at #QConNY this June 13-15. The track will focus on resilience engineering - culture as a system requirement. Don’t miss out on real-world best practices https://t.co/w1WJ30H7GJ #SoftwareConference #SoftwareDevelopment #TechEvent

"When we teach a kid to park, we say, 'Cut the wheel right'--we give instructions. When it comes to being kind, we say, 'be a good person.' We assume kids know what that means, but being kind also involves learning skills." https://t.co/fSuMjD5AxZ (As I told @tatertutt- @edutopia

Leading by "You can't manage it if you don't measure it," and "I'm holding you accountable for this number," is a direct path to Goodhart's Law. I'm begging leaders to have other tools in their leadership toolbox.

Unpopular opinion: Most software architecture advice sucks because everyone just talks about the architectures in their most successful projects and coolest companies. It is all survivor bias, hindsight bias and cherrypicked results.

This is true of work as well. I've seen too many folks think moving the work makes it go away.

Or you're in your 20s working your way through college, carrying a tray of sizzling fajitas to a table, and you accidentally tip the tray dumping hot steak, peppers, onions, and rice down inside your corporate-mandated polo. It burns so much.

Career advancement is about luck and opportunism. For success: Lean into the opportunities that cross your path, don’t get your heart set on a particular outcome. @mipsytipsy #QConSF

"The skill to master is making big changes as a series of small steps." -@KentBeck from @QConSF closing keynote Also, it's the skill I've personally found very hard to teach.

Coupling is contextual and based on change. It's about relationships where components have to change together. - from @KentBeck's closing keynote at @QConSF