rwitoff
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Comment · 6 years ago
Does this lead to a significantly smaller memory footprint than otherwise running .js in electron or a full browser?
I see you've become a big fan of bazel :)
Comment · 8 years ago
In practice, cramming all this into the same account doesn't work. Segment is following best practice here.
For example, IAM doesn't provide the granularity in resources and conditions that you'd want to effectively isolate the blast radius of developer keys. ec2:TerminateInstances didn't (doesn't?) support VPC level conditions, so being able to terminate one instance meant you could terminate all instances.
Similarly, you might want your engineering team to iam:PutUserPolicy in development, but have a much more restricted group in production which isn't possible with IAM today.
I've taken this pretty far in the past to attempt segmenting within one account, but always run into limits: https://github.com/witoff/self-service-iam
Comment · 8 years ago
Yep - See some of the work my last team published here while we were rebuilding deployment tooling: https://blog.coinbase.com/scaling-developer-productivity-d23.... For hard to measure metrics, softer measurements like repeated team surveys work fine too.
I'd be cautious of directly measuring "assistance" outside of peer input in perf to avoid an unhealthy incentive. The most helpful people I've worked with in the past tend to grow through strong peer reviews and having the most opportunities to join new projects.
The OP here really misses the point of demonstrating impact. Doing the right thing ethically then for the business is a strategy that is, well, rarely the wrong thing. Optimizing just for getting promoted might is a greedy strategy that might get you promoted once, but good luck finding peers that want to work with you again.
Comment · 11 years ago
same here. our s3 services are reporting similar 503's and network timeouts. a few of our partners are already down as well with their own 500s. another stormy night in the cloud.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/witoff; my proof: https://keybase.io/witoff/sigs/G0bVxHtzRp4ALbVWewtkLPzMTDjELfwtbe0-d5ImkbE ]