Oooh, put into words a huge tension I’ve been thinking about with respect to programming standards at The Times. Where’s the line between practicality and efficiency?
ALT Graph showing 2 intersecting lines that says system runtime cost vs development / org cost. Slide is titled “inflection points”
ALT Presenter with slide in the background that says “"No matter how fast processors get, software consistently finds new ways to eat up the extra speed. Make a CPU ten times as fast, and software will usually find ten times as much to do (or, in some cases, will feel at liberty to do it ten times less efficiently)"
Just picked up my badge and I must say this is definitely the coolest badge I’ve ever had!
ALT GitHub badge that shows a programmable device with my name, title, and pronounces. There’s also a printable version attached that says my twitter handle, company name, and that I’m a speaker.
Loving @ixchelruiz ‘s talk on the role of failure in our work, particularly her unique lens that failure does not have to be an enemy of excellence or even perfection.
ALT Latina woman (including because representation is important!) giving a talk on stage at DevOpsDays Copenhagen. The slide shown says “Human writing code for humans to improve human life”.
I'm working my way through an operating systems book and these 2 paragraphs are absolutely *wild*
ALT Screenshot of book that says, "There are many ways in which an outsider can attack a system; we will look at some of them later in this chapter. Many of the attacks nowadays are supported by highly advanced tools and services. Some of these tools are built by so-called ‘‘black-hat’’ hackers, others by ‘‘white hats.’’ Just like in the old Western movies, the bad guys in the digital world wear black hats and ride Trojan horses—the good hackers wear white hats and code faster than their shadows.
Incidentally, the popular press tends to use the generic term ‘‘hacker’’ exclusively for the black hats. However, within the computer world, ‘‘hacker’’ is a term of honor reserved for great programmers. While some of these are rogues, most are not. The press got this one wrong. In deference to true hackers, we will use the term in the original sense and will call people who try to break into computer systems where they do not belong either crackers or black hats."
ALT Puerto Rican flag decorations with family pictures
ALT Family pictures
ALT Shrine of Adela, the original restaurant owner. Includes Puerto Rican flags, Santa clause statue, cafe, pictures, and flowers. There’s a portrait of Adela above the shrine.
Hah, here you go with the full quote & highlights :)
ALT “the ability to understand what’s happening inside of your software systems to debug problems you've never seen before just using the telemetry (traces, logs, & metrics) emitted by your applications. It's also not just about a specific tool, it's about a team's ability to analyze that telemetry data.”
- Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb
wait… I love this dedication in @martinkl ‘s “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” book.
ALT “Technology is a powerful force in our society. Data, software, and communication can be used for bad: to entrench unfair power structures, to undermine human rights, and to protect vested interests. But they can also be used for good: to make underrepresented voices heard, to create opportunities for everyone, and to avert disasters. This book is dedicated to everyone working toward the good.”
Alright, I figured out what I’m going to do with them while I figure out how I’m going to decorate this thing long term (excuse the lack of cushioning lmao)
ALT Wheelchair with various stickers - pagerduty, a unicorn one, a techqueria one, datadog one
ALT a wheelchair with stickers on it - toil free one, cat one, light step one, MongoDB one, new relic one, a couple more that is blurry
I'm kicking these off *tomorrow* at The DEVOPS Conference! #TDOC
ALT Marketing material for my conference talk at The DevOps Conference, powered by eficode. It's online on March 8th & 9th. The marketing material has my photo, name (Lesley Cordero), place of work (Teachers Pay Teachers), and talk name (Running GameDays at Different Scales)
😱 Excited to announce more broadly I'll be speaking at @AllDayDevOps in a few weeks!
ALT Shows name of my presentation ("Fitting SRE & Developer Experience Into Your Team Priorities" and details: October 28th, free, online, register at alldaydevops.com
ALT The angry possum in a garbage meme, where the possum is yelling “don’t touch my garbage”. Meme caption says “when a coworker wants to do a code review”