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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 21
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Tyler Tringas

    I would read/watch/etc the heck out of this for literally every large software company. What's the part of your stack/operations/etc you're proudest of? What is the corner that touches everything where staff engineers fear to tread? Where 3 multi-year efforts to fix failed?https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1263634121009528832 …

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    Tyler Tringas @tylertringas
    In a ~92% non-patronizing way I would love to know what Twitter developers do all day. Genuinely! There must be some very tricky technical problems slowing down the uh releasing of software and I wanna know what they are. Some transparency here would probably go a long way tbh
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    • Scott Larsen INDM Arnaud Schenk Ian रोहन ठाणेदार Ahmed قَطَنَّش Mashal Waqar Iain P 😷 DCoderLT
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 21
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        An open secret in the tech industry is that these documents exist, they're just not public. Step one: Hire someone who was recently at X, in the ordinary course. Have them braindump into a document. Step two: Ask for comments from your other previously-X developers.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 21
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        There's an interesting professional challenge about respecting secrets about things you built, because on the one hand NDA etc etc etc, and on the other hand ex-employers don't own most contents of your brain even though a lot of it is relevant to similarly shaped new employers.

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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 21
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        (One function of consultants is to launder practices of various firms into Industry Best Practices (TM) so that there is technical diffusion faster than the ordinary cycle of people moving around the industry.)

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      1. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva May 21
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        Replying to @patio11

        You're going to write this up for Stripe, right?

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      2. Ari Pickar‏ @ari_pickar May 21
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        Amazon had a ~4 year effort to fix the internal wiki system!

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      3. Zain Rizvi  💻 🔬‏ @ZainRzv May 22
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        Replying to @ari_pickar @patio11

        So many questions: - How complex could a wiki system get? - Why did it take so long? What went wrong?

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      1. Michael Jelly‏ @michaeljelly May 21
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        Would also be an awesome way for them to find the exact right people to get those problems solved. Somebody might see “here’s this horrible hairy mess” and think Ohhhh yeh that was a tricky one, I led the team at (insert other company) that solved it

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      1. Tom Ritter‏ @TomRittervg May 21
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        This is one of the reasons I like working on open source 🙂. Fission and win32k-lockdown are ongoing, but past projects that predate me have been e10s and slaughterhouse.

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      1. Zain Rizvi  💻 🔬‏ @ZainRzv May 22
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        Zain Rizvi  💻 🔬 Retweeted Zain Rizvi  💻 🔬

        There’s a fun story about a product Google Cloud spend months building AWS heard about it and released the same product just one month later, beating GCP to market https://twitter.com/zainrzv/status/1253385508035522561?s=21 …https://twitter.com/zainrzv/status/1253385508035522561 …

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        Zain Rizvi  💻 🔬 @ZainRzv
        How AWS beat Google Cloud to market Oct 2016: Google Cloud announced it'll offer cold storage in Jan 2017 Cold storage wasn't even on AWS's roadmap at the time Nov 2016 (1 month later): AWS launched their cold storage option, beating Google to market
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      1. Tyler Tringas‏ @tylertringas May 21
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        Same.pic.twitter.com/D6NZRn4gip

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