Charity Majors

Their wordsEither can work. Both have tradeoffs and implications. If you try to import either philosophy wholesale, it will break in unexpected ways; if you try to mix and match, it will probably be an unfettered nightmare.

Their wordsYou can only really improve at one of these things at a time: engineering or management.

Their wordsBut I also think that in my mind, 20 years of DevOps was really about one thing. Trying to create one feedback loop that connected people writing code to that code in production. And it failed.

Their wordsyou want to hire people for their unique strengths, not their lack of weaknesses. If they’re strong where you need them to be strong, it’s okay if they aren’t equally superpowered at everything — that’s why we build teams, to supplement and balance each other out.

Their wordsIt's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway

Their wordsCan you be calibrated as an interviewer on every single opening, for every role? My God, no, not even close.

Their wordsBut hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian. Hierarchy did not originate as a political structure that humans invented for controlling and dominating one another, it is in fact a property of self-organizing systems, and it emerges for the benefit of the subsystems.

Their wordsAs soon as you merge, it should be going out. You like you should have to stop the train to make your code not go into production as soon as you've merged.

Their wordsit's always weird to me just how much software engineers really seem to believe that the world exists in the repo. It doesn't. It's production, you know?