throwawayian

I look at the egress costs to internet and it doesn’t check out. It’s a premium product dependent on DX, marketed to funded startups.

But if I care about ingress and egress costs, which many stream heavy infrastructure providers do.. This doesn’t add up.

I wish them luck, but I feel they would have had a much better chance from the start by getting some funding and having a loss leader start, then organising and passing on wholesale rates from cloud providers once they’d reached critical mass.

Instead they’re going in at retail which is very spicy. I feel like someone will clone the tech and let you self host, before big players copy it natively.

It’s a commodity space and they’re starting with a moat of a very busy 2 weeks from some Staff engineers at AWS.

Tencent Music own almost 10%, UMG and Sony own almost 5% together, there are vested interests here.

Security.

Having to pay for SAML and SCIM integration.

MDM and EDR.

Security baseline configuration deployments for different OS.

It’s a farce.

When you’re smaller, the CPO doesn’t matter as much. Your business has an idea, your CEO and CTO knows what it should look like. Polish it later.

Don’t promote people who don’t understand building systems. Everything is a system above 100 people, focus on scaling the things that matter below 100.

HR and Finance? Route it all through 1 person and outsource anything that takes significant time.

Tech? Give equity and significant targets to the CTO who should also be CPO until about 80-100 people. Fire them if they aren’t planners.

Don’t worry, you are.

I don’t think you understand the problem space. Although, this is a great alternative for SMB’s who aren’t being targeted by attackers who are writing tools specifically for their business.

But, also.. A hardcoded “what’s 7\1=“ would also achieve the same outcome.

Barrier to beat is “can the attacker put together a webauthn emulator”. Low, but will work for many organisations for a long time.

How is this any different to auditors or penetration testers doing a crap job? The payment might be in the form of bonuses or more work billed, but it’s just not realistic.

You don’t work in IT.

Unless you’re paying for Okta and Office365 and Workspace, you’re only getting maybe 70% of systems _you know about_.

And don’t get me started on automated provisioning or deprovisioning.

I wonder if you could change your name to “April May” and submitted CCPA/GDPR what the result would be..

Find mentors. This is true of any tech field.

Join Discords related to the stuff you’re working on, you’ll find people much smarter than you and any of your colleagues hanging out, talking about good approaches to designs, structures, infrastructure, etc.

You’ll also find idiots not worth listening to.

Remember you’re 6 months in / just doing the job is enough of a challenge. You’re calling yourself a lead for having full responsibility of the projects you’re working on. This is typically common everywhere except large tech companies.

Because in many countries writing down feedback creates a liability.

There are a lot of people not aware that their thoughts and feelings towards candidates constitute discrimination, and in the event of an employee or class action going to trial - written statements collected like you’ve suggested can easily create a view of systemic discrimination at any sufficiently large company.

Additionally the threshold and context for discrimination changes over time.

One day, you saying a candidate was too meek or reserved may be grounds for discrimination if they’re not in a customer or heavily-networking/presentation role.

At that point you’ll end up with people doing the equivalent of filibustering. Gibberish for weeks on end.

Then you’d be forced to watch 8-12 hours of interrogation, in some cases multiple times to cover months or years long investigations.

You can’t cut that time down across the board, it produces results. (Obviously it has drawbacks and it’s often not the right results.)

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