Wednesday Wisdom

Perhaps the hallmark of a good engineer is not that they always write good software, but that they can get bad software working and out of the door in time when the situation requires it.

Hot take: You might be doing SRE all wrong!

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/misinterpreting-sre

Everyone is stressed...

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/stress

Learning happens when you have to sink or swim...

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/tg-special-a-reader-question

Respect what came before because often there is much hard-earned wisdom embedded in existing solutions. Also: Replacing working code is hard.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/respect-what-came-before

Modesty is not a hip trait in a world that suffers from culturally sanctioned ADHD, but all things considered, I’d rather be undecided while I am thinking, than wrong.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/the-gift-of-modesty

Or: How to be successful while making many mistakes 🙂

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Experience is what you get when you are expecting something else…

The problem with heroes is that heroics don’t scale; instead: Boring scales. Call me old-fashioned (or boring) if you will, but when I am in charge of running some service, I want my days to be uneventful.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/unhappy-the-team-that-needs-heroes

If you have code reviews without actual reviews, postmortems that do not lead to improvements, and training without learning, you have form without function. It might look good, but it is useless.

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