Leadership
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How to Have Ownership When You Don’t Have it At All
A treatise of how to have respect for your colleagues in a world of ASAP.
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Jump into the Void of Irony
Warning: Authentic and acceptably verbose cussing included
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Kicking the One Onboarding Path to the Curb
There is no one onboarding path and there really should not be for teams with 20+ products.
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Laughter Was Reserved for Judgement
Reporting to you live 80% through a migration from Amazon Lightsail to Simply Static on Amazon S3.
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We Built This City
Accountability can be learned but you have to model it first.
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Epic Culture is Born from Clear Communication
Ship it.
All Posts, All Time
- So You Want to Own a Kubernetes Business
- How to Have Ownership When You Don’t Have it At All
- Jump into the Void of Irony
- Kicking the One Onboarding Path to the Curb
- Laughter Was Reserved for Judgement
- We Built This City
- Epic Culture is Born from Clear Communication
- Calculating Uptime for a Platform in K8sNaaS and K8sCaaS Business Models
- In Pursuit of Hospitality in Platform Engineering
- The Catalog of Patience & Water
- Using Self-Managed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Like It’s AWS Fargate
- In Defense of Change Management: Hope is a Four Letter Word
- Congratulations to Star Wars: Hunters!!!
- Sometimes The Pack is Wrong
- The Best Leadership Style is the One Where You Don’t Row Alone
- East Coast Wanderer: Screen Detoxing the Atlanta Way
- Sr. Directors, VPs, SVPs, and Distinguished Engineers Women Would Like to See in their Reporting Chain
- In Defense of Less Clusters: Part 3 – The Inverse Conway Maneuver, Team Namespaces, & Business Scalability
- Missed Grenades for Leaps of Faith Not Taken
- Making The Management Game Too Hard
- The Day I Learned to Break the Rules
- The Art of the Ask
- Getting Out of the Way of the People with the Pain
- How Culture Impacts Efficiency: Applying “Accelerate” to Game Studio Culture
- Thank You for Playing: How Amazing Teams Scale Kubernetes to Meet the Most Demanding Games
- Dear Google, Amazon, & Microsoft: Games is Not Media & Entertainment – It’s over 2x the Size
- The Best Fake Offsite
- Stay on Your Mission and Reclaim Your Most Valuable Resource
- Annual Performance Reviews: A Quest for Happiness when Comparison is the Thief of Joy
- Cell-Based Architecture: Lower the Blast Radius. Continuous Deployment Is Here.
- This is How Hard that Puzzle Is Going to Have to Be
- From 0 to Defiant: The Real Budgeting Strategy I Used For Career Growth
- You Don’t Have Tomorrow: On Limits And Living Your Life to Its Fullest
- How to Succeed in A Career Test: Owning Your Leadership Style Under Pressure
- Self-Service Paradoxes: “Molly! Write about Cluster Vending Machines!”
- Thank You: The Top 5 Most Read Posts of One Year of SEV 1 Party
- Finding Lost Pens & Lending Them: Overcoming the Myths around Growing Scope & Influence
- On Thanksgiving I Attempted to be a “Prompt Engineer” for my Family
- Constantly Growing: A Fictional Fiasco of Business
- How “Kill Me for Victory Rush!” became “Will You Marry Me?”
- Change Failure by Incident Revenue Loss: What the ’23 DORA State of DevOps Report Misses
- Hilarious Cloud & DevOps T-Shirts That Don’t Exist (Yet)
- The Next 5 years: Streaming Games to Smart TVs backed by Kubernetes
- Read, Write, & Execute: Linux File Permissions for Updating WordPress 6.3 in Amazon Lightsail
- Getting Help, Being Consistent, and Setting Up The Joke
- Cluster Sprawl: How Many K8s Clusters and People To Manage Them Do You Need?
- The Invitation: When You Can’t RSVP to the SEV 1 Party Any Faster
- 6 Techniques to Model Leadership Intentionally And Not Panic
- Security is Job 0: Finding & Solving Shared Single Points of Failure (SPOFs)
- Being Right Doesn’t Matter
- The Darkest Timeline: When to Host a Failure Party and Nuke All That Process
- “It is Impossible to Be a Woman – Nobody Gives You a Medal or Says Thank You!”
- The Skill of Manifesting Luck: Aiming at Elusivity with Ruthless Prioritization
- Clear Direction that Lacks Opportunity Stems from Confirmation Bias
- How to Estimate Infrastructure Cost & Opportunity Instead of Fake A** Numbers
- Uno Reverse: When A Migration Lets You Learn New Things
- Living through Long Bets, Humor, And Trying Not to Be the Asshole
- On Hard Problems: Why the CSI Driver for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Matters
- An Example Migration Plan & Architecture for Game Studio Archival Domains
- I Want to See the Mountains Again…And then Find Somewhere I Can Rest
- Epic Ways to Break Kubernetes Like a Gamer
- Perspective: How Points of View Influence Shared Engineering Conventions
- To Be in it for the Gold, You Have to be in it for the Story
- Agile Killed the Game Design Doc (In the Style of “Programming Sucks”)
- The Real Way To Pay Down Your RTO: With Kindness, Comes Speed
- Leadership Etiquette: How To Strike By Letting Others Go First
- Don’t Worry – Your Daughters Will Figure it Out
- One-Shots: When to Roll for Initiative on Your Company Wide Ask
- Epic Quests Are Born From Clear Intentions
- Yes, I Love Ops: Because We Do Not Fear Production.
- I Destroyed This Site: For 5 Minutes, Then 2, Then 0 Seconds
- I Know Places: In Defense of Less Clusters & More Node Isolation
- “There Aren’t Jr. Eng Roles for K8s” is a Half-Truth Best told Through Uptime
- Appendix J: A Metaphor for the Long-Term Value of “Documenting Champions”
- Doubt: There is No Room – Invest in Atlanta So Diverse Eng Can Grow Here
- Be Intentional. Be Consistent. Change at a Level You can Absorb.
- The Time I Deleted Facebook Login & Upgraded Unity for 3 Games. Alone.
- Sophisticated Canaries: Singlepane Tells “What Happened Was” in Grafana
- Do Things The Hard Way, Unicorn: Cooler Heads Prevail
- ChatGPT, Make Better Architects, but Don’t Approve PRs Yet
- Those Who Wander Might Actually Be Lost
- Hot & Fresh
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