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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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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(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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You're going to write this up for Stripe, right?
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Amazon had a ~4 year effort to fix the internal wiki system!
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So many questions: - How complex could a wiki system get? - Why did it take so long? What went wrong?
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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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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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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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