Etsy

On Being A Senior Engineer

October 25, 2012

I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a good deal of books in the management field about “expert” roles and responsibilities of non-technical individual contributors, I don’t see too many modern books or posts that might shed light [...]

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Etsy’s Chef Repo, 2010

December 31, 2010

Etsy’s Chef Repo, 2010 from jspaw on Vimeo. Delicious InfoViz courtesy of Gource.

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MTTR is more important than MTBF (for most types of F)

November 7, 2010

This week I gave a talk at QCon SF about development and operations cooperation at Etsy and Flickr.  It’s a refresh of talks I’ve given in the past, with more detail about how it’s going at Etsy. (It’s going excellently ) There’s a bunch of topics in the presentation slides, all centered around roles, responsibilities, [...]

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Go or No-Go: Operability and Contingency Planning (Surge)

November 3, 2010

Last month I had the honor of speaking at the Surge Conference in Baltimore, put together by OmniTI. It was a most excellent conference, and the expertise levels were ridiculously high. I count myself lucky to be considered the same league as the rest of the presenters. I did give a Keynote talk, and I [...]

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