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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

I’ve spent the last decade building and operating large-scale production systems with all sorts of teams, in all sorts of environments. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. I found myself looking at Honeycomb’s job ad for their first SRE position.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

In 1988, Berkley scientists David A Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy H Katz presented the paper A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) [3] at the ACM SIGMOD Conference. He realized that such enthusiasm could not surface in his company, because the culture did not value good engineering. This is lean.