tonymke

We've been in a self-hosted mesos/marathon cluster since mid/late 2014.

Today it's an absolute pleasure to use in a dev team of 5.

We had to address quite a few things over the years to make it that way, particularly in the early days - docker, mesos, and marathon's tooling in particular were quite weak at the time. Some of the big ones: How do you centralize configuration properly across DCs and environments? How do you properly CI/CD? Log and metric at scale? How do we proxy traffic from the edge to containers in a way that doesn't involve bothering an ops guy every time we shuffle things about, pre-k8s? What if we need to churn faster than what marathon is built for?

Once we worked through those, it became pretty changing as a developer. I don't think I would enjoy going back to the pre-container life - things just take so much longer to get done.

We're just doing our first k8s project now. Our existing solutions handle a lot of the big bang it would bring into any other team's lives, but certain things (managed persistent volumes, making stateful containers practical) mean I will be writing less chef recipes. I definitely appreciate that.

K

> But hey! It's just a "culture issue" right. Except, the culture issue is that the whole effing Silicon Valley culture is pure poison.

I don't disagree. I probably should have taken the greater SV problem into consideration in my knee jerk OP :-|

> I got the impression that she cares about her work, cares about being a good engineer/mentor/manager, has the skills to be good at all of those, and cares about improving even when she doesn't fully agree with the situation.

I agree; she's very passionate about what she's doing. I'm really on about her interactions with the team.

The things that really stand out to me:

- Regarding the data scientist's gender question: "I was forbidden to interact any further with the author of the survey"

- Regarding the mentee situation: "I was told to stop the formal mentoring and allow this person to 'learn at her own pace, without any pressure from you.'"

- Regarding asynchronous communication: "Asynchronous communication is definitely not my strongest area. When I see a text box on screen, I tend to be very terse and direct instead of typing out a wall of text."

It sounds like there's a lot unsaid in these lines she's getting. As if glaring social cues are being missed, and the managers and teammates are either unable or unwilling to just say "you come across like a jerk a lot. People are scared to say this to you. Please slow down before you type."

It could also be my massive amount of privilege talking. Who knows.

The impression I have after reading this that Ms. Ehmke had a shit attitude and people got sick of it. And that she hasn't seen that yet.

I'm sorry if this seems unempathetic - getting fired sucks, and is extremely painful. But there's no other way I can put it.

A long time ago, when my career first started, I also went through the "PIP deathspiral", and it took months... maybe years after my termination to realize I was just fired being a shithead.

I see the same "it's not my fault it's theirs" attitude I had at the time in this.

The reason this guy went on multiple racist and antisemitic tirades - including a debate where he goes off on the terrible consequences of a world where whites aren't the minority - is ~it's hard to get in the YouTube sidebar~?