Will Gallego

@gallego
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Building something amazing at Jeli.io. Trying to do some good. Software Engineering and Resilience Engineering. Formerly Fastly, Etsy. (he/him)
sitehttps://willgallego.com
AI will make it worse, not better, to hold blame aware retrospectives.

Apropos of nothing: do we have any written experience reports of what it’s *like* as an engineer to be on call for various nines of availability?

I know the math for them, but I realised I don’t know if we have a collective idea of what it FEELS like to operate each of at those levels

Anyone? 👀

I would love:

- what were your SLAs?
- how did it change how you planned your life? Performing activities?
- what was your wellbeing like?
- did the company culture help or hurt your wellbeing?

Please share! I’m very curious and it’s extremely relevant right now, I think

Small Town Titans - "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - Official Video

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@hipsterelectron @justinsheehy @allspaw @norootcause

If you're at all interrested, the three of us (Allspaw, Lorin, and I) are in a community of like minded folks helping to promote these ideas - resilienceinsoftware.org

Had the fun of being a guest on the This is Fine! podcast last week.

Hot take - I don't think you ever *really* put an incident "on hold", not fully. Does that still have value?

Give it a listen!

youtu.be/qh0Wy3uB0yw

Hey, we're going to play some D&D!!

The party is battling The Old Man of the Forest - the Metsavana - a monstrous corpse eating creature keeping them trapped within this small oasis within the dark woods.

Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/wcgallego/

@hazelweakly Aw hazel! She's such a sweetie. Sorry for your loss ❤️
[Incident Fest] - What Does Great Incident Response Look Like?

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We want folks running better incident reviews, but you basically need to get lucky enough to be at a company where people are already doing that.

Otherwise, how else would you even observe that?

@dtauvdiodr I hope not, my appointment is next Thursday