travis jeffery
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Building useful tools and sharing what I learn. Author of Distributed Services with Go. @OscilarInc Formerly @confluentinc @segment @basecamp.
Canada
Joined January 2007
Today was my last day at Confluent. New startup tomorrow. Might fuck around and be early at three billion+ co's in a row.
2020: Twilio acquires Segment.2021: Confluent IPOs.Nice.
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RT @pragprog: Build distributed services that are highly available, resilient, and scalable. This book is just what you need to apply Go to….
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2020: Twilio acquires Segment.2021: Confluent IPOs.Nice.
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"When you're in the midst of a storm like we were, it's easy to temporarily lose hope. To feel like it'll never pass. But it usually does, and so it did at Basecamp."
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$TWLO looks dynamite long-term. Great move putting @reinpk in charge of their data platform and likewise for @Simonkhalaf on communications. That Core Platform Lead would be a sweet gig.
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For the people that left, the best is yet to come. Just like it was for me.
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RT @pragprog: Know the basics of Go and ready for more? Distributed Services with Go is now in print. Plus get 40% off the ebook at https:/….
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My #1 regret is not being born earlier so I could go to Daft Punk's Alive 2007 tour. My solace is the hope that we get more music from Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, individually. #RIPDaftPunk #Reboot2027
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Today's the last day of editing before shipping my book off for publishing, and in the past few days I've worked through the book's ~350 code snippets to verify that everything worked. I always hated code not working in programming books.
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RT @snassr_: I'm currently reading Distributed Services with Go. It is still in beta, but I can't recommend it enough for anyone interested….
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The go.mod replace statements to make modules work.
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The Rust book: macros, an advanced feature you won't use often. Rust code: Million billion trillion macros everywhere. One of the first things a new Rust programmer will probably see and do is use a macro the library tells them to drop in their code.
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If you're looking for a good #distsys #golang book, mine will be HALF PRICE on Dec 14 from 1p-6p EST as part of #12DaysOfPragProg.
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Sales: Hey, can you build this feature that we can't "sell" to x, y, z customers without?.Engineering: *Builds feature for 3 months.* Done. Sales: 🤑🤑🤑 thank you! *Counts next quarter's commissions*.Engineering: Oh. No commission? No cut at all? OK, we'll just go f ourselves.
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That team was the most productive team I've seen. Everyone was enough of a generalist and engineer that they were capable of building anything. Projects were often built end-to-end by one person. We were figuring out things for the first time and just going for it.
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The cool part of building a company was having more problems to solve and things to learn.
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Working at Segment in those days wasn't "work". We already hacked on open source projects with each other and Segment felt similar. Engineering worked remotely and we talked and worked together like any OSS project.
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The Segment news is pretty crazy. I joined early 2014 just to experience learning from and working with that early team. The bonus of joining at the time was a free trip the team took to Australia.
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RT @pragprog: Building a service means something only after you’ve deployed it. Distributed Services with Go (beta) updated with fixed erra….
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