Rebuilding our Support Tech architecture

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49 points·ryan_lane··8 comments

I found the database design portion of this to border on... if just felt like they were trying to model the most basic of design decisions as some kind of technical achievement. seemed to me they were trying to garner tech 'street cred' without something to be worthy of credit, not sure i understood.

>the popular hacker mentality of “move fast and break things.”

This is really slanderous to the hacker ethos - this is really more of a startup-cult slogan. :)

It’s the motto of people who don’t mind being fired a lot.

https://xkcd.com/1428/

Also, R&D.

You break production, you're breaking the business machine.

Everyone has a test server. Some people are just lucky enough to have a separate production server.

I think this used to(still is?), the Facebook engineering moto, and was proudly written on their blog posts.

That doesn't seem to be the case anymore, since around 2014: https://mashable.com/2014/04/30/facebooks-new-mantra-move-fa...

> "We used to have this famous mantra ... and the idea here is that as developers, moving quickly is so important that we were even willing to tolerate a few bugs in order to do it," Zuckerberg said. "What we realized over time is that it wasn't helping us to move faster because we had to slow down to fix these bugs and it wasn't improving our speed."

Seems they tried exactly that with the Boeing 737 MAX.

What could ever go wrong with that?

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