“People with targets […] will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.” – Deming

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

vaporware is cloud native

At the Sydney launch event for @TeremTech’s State of APIs ANZ report with @tiamsorensen. We were very keen at @CipherStash to contribute to this inaugural report.

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Dropped @Movember’s production database during peak donation period in Nov 2011.

Ran automation for setting up a new follower db against the leader db, taking the entire cluster offline.

Prod down for ~5 mins as we restored. Probably lost several tens of k’s of donation $s.

Adding +15 headcount means you’re a Director (or well on your way!), which improves your compensation, your future job opportunities, etc.

Adding +400k/yr in SaaS spend means you’re meeting with Finance every month to review infrastructure costs and bring them under control.

“The report's author believes it may be unethical to continue to send women to the stations if the behaviour can't be stamped out”

Here’s a free idea that doesn’t punish the victims: ban all men from the stations

abc.net.au/news/2022-09-2…

Halvard @halvards treating us to a live demo of remote debugging of Go apps with skaffold at @syddevops

And now @pi3ch is showing us how easy it is to break out of containers

Spent the day sick on the couch finishing reviews of @SREcon APAC talks, and every time I said “SRE”, iOS dictation wrote it as “sorry”, and I think that says a lot

This nails something I had amorphously felt but never articulated in my head (attributed to @monicabyrne13).

I grew up in the golden age of SQL injections but GPT3 injections just hit different 🤣

This is unbelievably fucked. abc.net.au/news/2022-09-1…

And yet NT Police say his comments “do not represent the values of the Northern Territory Police Force or of most members of that force”

“most” is doing a fuck tonne of heavy lifting in that sentence.

The fact conversations like that were happening in private groups and yet nobody objected to the slurs and hatred tells you everything about how pervasive the rot is in that organisation.