David Ashman

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  1. Jul 3

    This is a really interesting point. Too often, dashboards and metrics are built only to catch something that has already happened. There is value there, but you will always be playing cat and mouse. Observability provides a way to see things before they need "monitoring".

    Every dashboard is an artifact of some past failure, vol #4335559.
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    Jul 2
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    I only ask that the O’Reilly animal for Observability be a Tarsier.

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    Jun 28

    Keeping servers online

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  4. Jun 28

    I'm just going to post this one again. It's too important not to repeat every single morning when you are an engineer. And to be clear, this same question should be asked about "tech" work - you still need a business case for that work.

    “What problem are you trying to solve?” is the most important question we can ask as engineers. Our job is to solve that business problem in the simplest, most straightforward way possible.
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    Jun 27

    Tech debt is almost always a management problem. If you're a manager who is complaining about tech debt on your teams, take a long look in the mirror and then give them time to prioritize fixing it.

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    Jun 26

    The best skill you can give yourself as an engineer: the patience and skill of reading other peoples source code for understanding and context. We tend to give up, and declare code "over-engineered", when what we mean is it's easier to build your model from scratch than dig deep.

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    Jun 26

    How does a contract-first and resiliency-first mindset help deliver the APIs driving Capital One’s mobile experiences? Sr Director of Digital Product Engineering explains why “faster is not always better, but we always strive to get better faster.”

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    Jun 24

    Sure you’ve got data warehouses and data lakes and data marts but like Do you have a data bodega?

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    Jun 24

    Go subscribe to ’s podcast O11ycast (). Ep 1 should be required listening for all developers.

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    Jun 13

    DevOps is about continual self-improvement, not continuous fire drills

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    Jun 7

    There was no Memoji hairstyle matching my hair, so I went and got a haircut

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    Jun 6

    This thread is not about Microsoft. Microsoft is just another dog. It just happens to have completely inverted one of its most important positions, and it happens to be embracing the thing it previously tried to kill with all its $780,000,000,000 might, so it's on our minds.

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    Jun 3

    Two wins from glory- / Three losses from Kornheiser's- / mockery and scorn.

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    Jun 3

    “What problem are you trying to solve?” is the most important question we can ask as engineers. Our job is to solve that business problem in the simplest, most straightforward way possible.

    The person using your software doesn't care which framework you used. But they do care that you solve their problem. So use whatever it takes to create fast, working, maintainable solutions that adapt to change. Code for people, not to impress other devs with your skills.
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  16. May 26

    My Airpods continue to amaze me. Such a simple looking product has turned into my favorite Apple product in years.

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    May 26

    Was thinking of hiring a carpenter for some new cabinets but then I found out he only has experience with Ryobi tools and no DeWalt experience... Think of this the next time you determine a developer’s worth by the languages they use.

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    May 25

    Exactly...

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    May 26

    I wish kids had background music so we knew when they were doing something bad.

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    May 24

    Dave, I've updated my privacy policy. Until you've accepted my new terms, I can't open the pod door.

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