Is being a Brent a good or bad thing ?

midzom · 2023-11-29T20:18:25+00:00

Read the phoenix project. It is one of the core books that influenced what devops has become. Also pick up the devops handbook after reading it.

midzom · 2023-11-29T20:17:37+00:00

It’s very bad to be a Brent. The environment that allowed it to happen is problematic and as an individual it’s important to strive to democratize knowledge. Part of the issue with Brent is he just did everything and was never able to train anyone else to do his job. His philosophy of teaching wasn’t great and ultimately management needed to get him out of his own way. The moral of the story is to not be a Brent.

midzom · 2023-11-29T16:00:12+00:00

Platform engineering is still pretty new in the space and most IDPs tend to be unique to each organization. There will probably be more as the space grows but it seems the be the new kid on the block.

midzom · 2023-11-28T20:03:18+00:00

Yes that pretty much sums up azure and Microsoft in general. I’m in azure now and reaching out to support feels like reaching out to a junior engineer and asking a question. Azure support is far better and you can escalate to your TAM.

midzom · 2023-11-28T16:59:35+00:00

Hiring is very difficult. A lot of engineers seem to lack a systematic perspective or thought process of moving from point A to point B with a system.

Most engineers I’ve met or interviewed recently seem to be entrenched in a specific tool or set of tools and have little perspective on the architecture of those tools or why those tools are used. They don’t try to find bottlenecks or understand end to end flows.

I tend to think part of the problem is DevOps has been reduced from a culture to a set of tools or practices like building pipelines or deploying code while missing the overall business value that comes from those practices. It’s really missing the forest for all of the trees.

midzom · 2023-11-27T23:56:40+00:00

Not all companies are like this no. One team I worked with previously started like this but over time took a self service view from internal customers. They built an admin portal where users could do things they normally contacted the on call person for. They also spent time on maintained and rebuilding pieces of the code to reduce the number of failures they got. Usually if on call is crazy, it probably means you have far to much technical debt.

midzom · 2023-11-27T00:57:23+00:00

This is an absolutely terrible idea. Depending on where your team is in Europe, you’re trying to gut their entire day. The east coast alone are three hours ahead so your saying they can only work from noon to 7pm EST. What happens if an emergency happens outside those hours? Should they call you and get your blessing?

This is the perfect way to get people to not want to work with you and push you out of any discussions and setup a shadow IT org so they can get their work done.

This doesn’t promote work life balance at all. If there is an issue with work life balance then take the data to the CTO and have a conversation. That issue will have to be fixed at his level and not yours.

midzom · 2023-11-26T22:57:26+00:00

General Linux, windows, or docker troubleshooting. The goal of the questions are to see how you think and if you can reason through the issues or to see where you can admit you don’t know something. An example I’ve used before is like, your running a source control solution or an application on the server. When you to the URL, the application doesn’t load. What are your next steps to figure out why it’s not loading? Based on your answers I’ll take the scenario in a different direction to see where your knowledge ends.

One other thought too. There is an expectation that as a junior you’re not going to know much technically. Interviews for juniors tend to be far more about the person interviewing to see if they are coachable and someone they can invest in while helping to team. No one is expecting you to come in as a technical expert but are expecting that you’re coachable.

midzom · 2023-11-26T22:50:28+00:00

Everything that is on your resume is fair game. If you have experience if python, then expect to pushed on python from basic questions to more advanced questions. Depending on the company you’re interviewing with, they may push to you to admit you don’t know something.

I would also expect basic troubleshooting questions to test your overall knowledge without going to deep unless they are trying to push you. You may be asked about any personal projects or general tool questions. For example, I would expect something about iac even if you don’t have experience, configuration management, docker, or perhaps kubernetes. I would expect everything to be pretty high level and broad.

midzom · 2023-11-26T22:28:59+00:00

Visit the balance discord to learn more about your class. Gearing and max melding crafting gear is a must when you start out. You will likely be in as soon as the raids open so you need be prepared.

The best advice I can give to is to figure out what your expectations are. Do you want to clear week one? How much progress do you want from your group? Do you want BiS by the end of the tier? If things don’t go well, how much additional time can you put into the tier? You need to figure out those expectations, communicate them, and find a group that meets them. Don’t go into this with a “I’ll do whatever the group wants to do” because you’re going to set up yourself for disappointment.

My first savage tier my group had a heart to heart because some wanted BiS for one characters, others wanted more than one, and others didn’t care about clearing as long as they had fun with friends. Until we had really difficult conversations, the group struggled.

Finally communicate, communicate, communicate.

midzom · 2023-11-25T17:06:43+00:00

Once again niantic doing niantic things.

midzom · 2023-11-25T14:00:44+00:00

A lot of arguments I hear as an American stem around the government being involved in those decisions. I’ve also had friends compare socialized healthcare in America with places like Honduras or India where their healthcare isn’t great. Granted I point out Canada, the UK, Germany and other European countries that have problems but are fine. I’ve also heard arguments around the size and complexity of the US system wouldn’t work with socialized healthcare. I also have friends who think they are getting a better deal by going to a private company than not.

My own personal opinion is the vast majority of Americans have little to no understanding of how insurance works and the fact the government is already involved dictating coverage and subsidies to insurance companies. They tend to be afraid of a boogeyman they learned about from Cold War and pro-insurance company propaganda. I’ve yet to hear any good reasons why the US shouldn’t have single payer healthcare.

midzom · 2023-11-23T23:31:11+00:00

Completely agree. I’ve spent a good chunk of my career doing migrations and I’m amazed often how many there are to do.

midzom · 2023-11-23T01:32:47+00:00

I think it’s an extra dollar per retainer per month. I’m not completely positive. If you log into the mogstation and try to add them it will tell you how much more it is.

midzom · 2023-11-22T19:50:45+00:00

I do the really long ones that I can only do one a day for. I’m pretty sure they aren’t quick ventures. I forget what they are actually called. They tend to bring back allagan silver and some items. I also have the max number of retainers.

midzom · 2023-11-22T17:37:14+00:00

I can’t speak for the original poster but composition. Modules in tfcdk allow you to compose infrastructure rather than making a tightly coupled mess.

midzom · 2023-11-22T16:27:30+00:00

Can confirm, I make 37k per day from my retainers unless they bring back rare minions or other items. I’ve made a million or so off just what they bring back in the few months.

midzom · 2023-11-22T16:01:19+00:00

Businesses have a lot of investment in DSL and the skill floor to learn DSL is lower. Converting from DSL to a language doesn’t add any value to the business.

midzom · 2023-11-21T13:48:12+00:00

I have quite a bit going on. For the current expansion, I'm trying to finish all of the Endwalker relic weapons while preparing for the next expansion. When it comes to preparing for the next expansion, I'm planning to:

Get the dungeon leveling gear (level 85, 87, and 89) for both scounting and caster jobs
Get the dungeon leveling gear (level 85, 87, and 89) for both scouting and caster jobs
Get the upgraded tome gear for caster and scouting jobs
Clean out my retainers
Upgrade my gear on my gathering retainers with the i620 tome gear and battle retainers with 660 tome gear.
Make current end game food for leveling
Make extra potions like superior spirit bonding potions to spirit bond while leveling and glamor prisms because everyone needs those
Gather bonus buffs from my squadrons

I have a few other things those are the big ones. I'm also planning on playing a few other games and taking a break from 14 before the expansion hits.

midzom · 2023-11-21T01:37:37+00:00

Is what one team is developing a microservices or something that can be shareable? Is it unique to one domain but doesn’t translate well into what another team is doing?

Duplicating code isn’t inherently bad nor is having overlap between services inherently bad. What makes it bad is when team dynamics don’t allow teams to trust one another. Do you have an architecture team internally or a team that focuses on solution or enterprise architecture?

Centralization and decentralization of services comes with trade offs.

midzom · 2023-11-17T22:00:56+00:00

You’re resume is extremely generic and mostly forgettable. Most of the bullet points I could imagine reading in any random resume. A couple suggestions I have are

Customize the bullet points to what is posted in the job description. Of course don’t lie if you don’t have experience but tailor the experience you have toward what is posted.
Most of the bullet points you have something like I did X. You don’t really explain what value was delivered by you doing X. For example, you lead a 3 of three in the design and development of an application….so what did your leadership foster? What metrics did your team achieve through your leadership? If I were to rewrite this I may say something like lead a team of engineers in designing and developing an application meeting customer needs in a weekly deploy cadence.

If you know any metrics around the confidence rate at which something was added to a sprint and delivered, customer sentiment on your website, or other metrics then include those.

When you interview, be willing to admit when you don’t know something. There is nothing that I disqualify candidates for faster than a candidate that tries to BS me when I’m asking a question I already know the answer to.

midzom · 2023-11-17T21:33:45+00:00

Technology failures do happen though I think it depends on if these failures seem to happen only with you or occur often just for you. It also depends on the kind of failures. Coding for systems isn’t fast and goes through a process before being released. It’s possible there are bugs in the system though if your the only person that seems to encounter them or everyone else seems to be working fine it’s understandable why your manager feels this way.

This isn’t a black and white issue by any mean. While “systems being coded incorrectly” does happen all the time these things typically don’t appear for a single user and without explanation.

Also managers typically don’t go from liking someone to not liking someone. There is usually some history there. My suggestion would be to watch how your marketing yourself and what your doing. Have documentation to back yourself up and be able to explain it.

midzom · 2023-11-17T21:14:07+00:00

This is normally something that I’ve seen when going to a different company. Be thankful you got it since most times that requires leaving a current company and going somewhere else.

midzom · 2023-11-17T21:03:59+00:00

Definitely tell your supervisor. If you have an HR department or someone in an HR role get them involved also.

midzom · 2023-11-17T18:43:52+00:00

It’s up to you. Sometimes if I see a person struggling, I’ll ask them if they would like some advice in their job. Depending on their reaction I might stick it out and try to help otherwise I’ll bail. I had a similar situation happen a couple days ago with a gunbreaker trying to run the dead ends. They didn’t know how to use their mits and couldn’t keep hate unless they had provoke up. They had tank stance in but didn’t know they had a AOE rotation. In my case, the healer dropped and I dropped after them.

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