Links: 11-28-2018

Everyone is a designer. Get over it. – GV Library
Quote: "… Maybe that’s why so many designers are offended when non-designers do design work or get called “designers” by Jared and me. You can act offended if you want, but the reality is that other people are making design decisions with or without you. Embrace them . They don’t make your job less valuable. They don’t make your job title less meaningful."
(categories: design ux designthinking )

Links: 11-26-2018

Some notes on running new software in production – Julia Evans
Quote: "At 99.99%, it’s different. That’s 45 minutes / year of downtime, and if you find out about a serious issue for the first time in production it could easily take you 20 minutes or to revert the change. That’s half your uptime budget for the year!"
(categories: reliability envoy kubernetes deployment )
Learn Git Branching
(categories: git education versioncontrol )
The RED Method: How to Instrument Your Services | Grafana Labs Blog
RED (throughput, errors, response time) & the 4 Golden Signals (response time, throughput, errors, capacity).
(categories: monitoring red golden-signals operations performance )

October 21 post-incident analysis | The GitHub Blog
43s of lost connectivity resulted in 24 hours of service degradation.
(categories: post-mortem change root-cause-assessment github resiliency )
What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms
Quote amongst many useful tidbits: "… The platform should provide a team with self-service access. Specifically it should allow for self-service provisioning, self-service configuration, and self-service management and operation of the platform capabilities and assets."
(categories: devops architecture platform martinfowler engineering )
A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions – MIT Technology Review
Quote: "… In February of this year, the University of Texas, which runs M.D. Anderson, announced it had shuttered the project, leaving the medical center out $39 million in payments to IBM—for a project originally contracted at $2.4 million."
(categories: ai machinelearning ibm medicine health )

44+Barbara+Coloroso+rMY9QE.pdf
Quote: "… you have to own and fix what you did, figure out how you’re going to keep it from happening again, and find a way to heal with the person that you’ve truly harmed."
(categories: parenting kids responsibility )

The Surprising Power of The Long Game
Quote: "The short game is putting off anything that seems hard for doing something that seems easy or fun. The short game offers visible and immediate benefits. The short game is seductive."
(categories: career planning strategy life long-view long-game )

Apple’s Tim Cook: The Genius Behind Steve Jobs (Fortune, 2008) | Fortune
Quote: "One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia. “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, “Why are you still here?” Khan, who remains one of Cook’s top lieutenants to this day, immediately stood up, drove to San Francisco International Airport, …
(categories: business leadership focus )