Mark Côté@markrcote
Joined August 2009
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One exercise that’s been beneficial for our developer infrastructure organization in @ShopifyEng has been to define our scope of work. I share why and how we did this for the @DeveloperXM blog: getdx.com/resources/infrastr…
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A few years ago a woman at a bar told me I looked just like Chuck Klosterman. I had no idea who that was at the time. Since then I have come to realize that (a) I do in fact look quite a bit like him and (b) I absolutely love his writing.
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Interestingly I also look a little like @ryanqnorth (who by the transitive property I guess also looks like Klosterman) *and* I love *his* writing so there must be some sort of mind-body genetic connection going on between looks and writing (or at least the appreciation thereof).
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Current grammatical pet peeve: the misuse of "lead" as the past tense of "lead". It's probably second in popularity after "it's" being misused as the possessive of "it". Correct usage: You lead your current team; you may have led a different one before.
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Today's ~6am temperature (-29.5°C) was #Montréal's coldest temperature in almost 30 years, since Jan 27th, 1994. #QcWx #YULWx
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@markrcote is part of the Cost Optimization Mastery: Insights from Leading Engineering Managers panel. They’ll discuss how to confront the challenges that come with managing and operating an eng organization in a cost-aware way. 📆 Jan 31 at 11 a.m. 🔗 bit.ly/3Jn51jw
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mike dalessio@flavorjones
7 Dec 2022
I'm heartbroken to share this news about our dear friend and colleague, @ChrisGSeaton.
Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

ALT Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

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Canada won't commit to support the call to include a phaseout of oil, gas & coal in #COP27 cover text. India, the EU, the US have all joined the call. Min @s_guilbeault: if we don’t have a plan to phase out fossils, then we don’t have a plan to combat climate change. #cdnpoli
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My latest post on the Shopify Engineering Blog!
Shopify Engineering
@ShopifyEng
16 Nov 2022
The 3 management poles of Developer infrastructure teams are 1️⃣ Management support 2️⃣ System and domain expertise 3️⃣ Road maps. There’s a natural tension that makes them tricky to ⚖️ . @markrcote shares his strategies for managing these 3 poles. bit.ly/3DoRT8R
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Am I the only person who fixes the time on hotel-room alarm clocks?
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More of my developer-infrastructure mental models and thought processes.
Shopify Engineering
@ShopifyEng
1 Nov 2022
In one of our newer posts, @markrcote talks about the three management poles of Developer infrastructure teams: 1️⃣ Management support 2️⃣ System and domain expertise 3️⃣ Road maps Check out some of his strategies to manage them. ⬇️ bit.ly/3DoRT8R
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I joined @abinoda's Engineering Enablement podcast to share how and why our infrastructure group focuses on tightening feedback loops, reducing cognitive overhead, and scaling up engineering. I also talk about having a product mindset and communicating with devs.
DX@DeveloperXM
27 Oct 2022
New podcast: @markrcote shares the story of creating the infrastructure team’s charter and guiding principles, as well as how they decide what to focus on today. Tune in: getdx.com/podcast/shopify-in…
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My first thought when I see a windmill is "ah maybe there's hope for us yet" and my second thought is "some people look at this and think the exact opposite".
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Steps 1 & 2 of 16
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Seen on the streets in Victoria BC.
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The Quebec govt took a hardline stance on cannabis edibles by forbidding the sale of anything that would appeal to children. Their "cinnamon and black currant bites" were apparently too much, as they were followed up by THC- and CBD-infused dried _beets_ and _cauliflower_. 😂
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