dbenhur

"Prior to Okta, David was the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec" So, his prior experience is as CSO at a company who's principal business is selling fake security products. Ho, boy.

If someone dies due to inability to summon emergency assistance, this will truly be a post-mortem instead of a badly named incident retrospective.

You can read plenty of behavioral signal from how candidates interact with interviewers while solving hard technical challenges. But many companies don't really invest much into training interviewers how to effectively interview and gather useful signal or calibrating their evaluation to the goals and standards of the organization.

coe.amazon.com if you're inside. Larry must have paid for this article. Some things it doesn't say: Large database migrations are hard -- especially so when there's been many years of accumulated dependency on the prior data store/model. Amazon conducts a lot of CoEs -- I suspect more than 1000/yr. Hundreds of prior CoEs implicate behavior of relational databases (and particularly Oracle) at scale -- there's a reason Amazon has an expensive multi-year program to get off Oracle.

Incognito window is your friend

Yes, root cause analysis and corrective action should only to be done with Cook's insights in mind.

"Post-accident attribution to a ‘root cause’ is nearly always wrong." "Post-accident remedies usually increase the coupling and complexity of the system. This increases the potential number of latent failures and also makes the detection and blocking of accident trajectories more difficult."

How Complex Systems Fail is short but loaded with value; if you haven't read it, go do so now!

Most vehicle recalls are not of the form: return your vehicle, we give you a new fixed one; but rather: bring your vehicle to one of our dealers and they'll perform some action to repair the defect.

The later is pretty analogous to issuing firmware and OS patches to mitigate the flaw.

If you aren't argu^H^H^H^Hdiscusing with the interviewer, you're doing it wrong. If that results in unfavourable evaluation, that's good data for you whether you should take that job.

No. The exact opposite, in fact.

Janus is a fork of Titan, BTW. The core Titan devs got acquired by Datastax and redirected to their graphDB offering. Titan stagnated, then got forked as Janus under the Linux Foundation.