• Early Twitter's fail-whale wars | Dmitriy Ryaboy

  • Aug 13 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
  • Podcast

Early Twitter's fail-whale wars | Dmitriy Ryaboy

  • Summary

  • A veteran of early Twitter's fail whale wars, Dmitriy joins the show to chat about the time when 70% of the Hadoop cluster got accidentally deleted, the financial reality of writing a book, and how to navigate acquisitions.

    Segments:
    (00:00:00) The Infamous Hadoop Outage
    (00:02:36) War Stories from Twitter's Early Days
    (00:04:47) The Fail Whale Era
    (00:06:48) The Hadoop Cluster Shutdown
    (00:12:20) “First Restore the Service Then Fix the Problem. Not the Other Way Around.”
    (00:14:10) War Rooms and Organic Decision-Making
    (00:16:16) The Importance of Communication in Incident Management
    (00:19:07) That Time When the Data Center Caught Fire
    (00:21:45) The "Best Email Ever" at Twitter
    (00:25:34) The Importance of Failing
    (00:27:17) Distributed Systems and Error Handling
    (00:29:49) The Missing README
    (00:33:13) Agile and Scrum
    (00:38:44) The Financial Reality of Writing a Book
    (00:43:23) Collaborative Writing Is Like Open-Source Coding
    (00:44:41) Finding a Publisher and the Role of Editors
    (00:50:33) Defining the Tone and Voice of the Book
    (00:54:23) Acquisitions from an Engineer's Perspective
    (00:56:00) Integrating Acquired Teams
    (01:02:47) Technical Due Diligence
    (01:04:31) The Reality of System Implementation
    (01:06:11) Integration Challenges and Gotchas

    Show Notes:
    - Dmitriy Ryaboy on Twitter: https://x.com/squarecog
    - The Missing README: https://www.amazon.com/Missing-README-Guide-Software-Engineer/dp/1718501838
    - Chris Riccomini on how to write a technical book: https://cnr.sh/essays/how-to-write-a-technical-book

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    Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Forest License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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