Category: work
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They Lied To Me?
All changes can be suspect, not just the ones we make on the platform side, you know?
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Suspiciously Good Sleep
So someone at work started saying how they had slept the whole night without any incidents while they were on-call, and everyone present immediately knew where they were going: the instant concern that there were actually incidents but they had missed the notifications.
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Like Winning The Lottery
One of the problems with having a really big service is that, after a point, million-to-one odd occurrences start to happen pretty frequently.
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Just Add More Threads
Hence why the real fix for “we’re running out of threads” is not always just “increase the thread pool.”
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Hulk Secret
Laying down on a prospective mattress with my spouse in the mattress store: Sales person: “And what about you, are you comfortable?” Me: “Oh, we don’t need to worry about me. I will be able to sleep.”
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Anteater
So my sister tells us at a family gathering how she ate an ant and it turns out that they are sour and our dad adds very emphatically: “Oh yeah, ants are sour.” Excuse me, sir, were we just supposed to know that you already knew the flavor profile of ants?
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Mixed Messages
But in all seriousness, at least try using AI for something, yeah?
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Routine Guilter
Something like this was suggested for a comic – I’m not casting aspersions on anyone.
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I’m Your Huckleberry
Some problems can be more easily solved from the top down.
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Lifeline
Good luck with that first servicing loop.