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theta_d
·2개월 전·discuss
The sub-service at IBM cloud I worked on had an insanely small error budget such that pages were nearly constant. On call was hell week until a few of us insisted on fixing the issues. The "few" of us were contractors. The employees seemed more than willing to just let the pages continue.
theta_d
·4개월 전·discuss
> But for whatever reason it never became that mainstream

Syntax. Syntax is the reason. It's too foreign to be picked up quickly by the mass of developers that already know a C style language. I would also argue that it's not only foreign, it's too clunky.
theta_d
·7개월 전·discuss
I believe it was an ancient ServiceNow incantation that all the current employees couldn't seem to hunt down.
theta_d
·7개월 전·discuss
I did, multiple times. I was a contractor. I was the only one on my team of contractors whose account was screwed up. There seemed to be no priority to do anything there. One of many many reasons I left when I could.
theta_d
·7개월 전·discuss
I worked for IBM Cloud about 6+ years ago. While there, we had to connect to a Softlayer VPN to get into our Jira instance. My VPN account and Jira account never got provisioned so I couldn't connect nor see the Jira board. My team-mates couldn't even assign a ticket to me b/c of this. They would just put my initial's in the ticket summary and send me a slack of the details.

It was right before I left that we got our own Jira instance. This was all around the time of the Red Hat acquisition. I remember the announcement b/c we used SuSE for everything IIRC.
theta_d
·9개월 전·discuss
> It could even be outsourced and then a small contract for maintenance.

Yeah, those people we outsourced to happen to work at AWS.
theta_d
·10개월 전·discuss
Not the same form factor but here you go: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure
theta_d
·2년 전·discuss
That was painful to watch.
theta_d
·5년 전·discuss
When I worked at IBM Cloud they copied the Spotify model of squads and tribes and guilds. I remember having to watch a video about it on my first day.