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by colesantiago 1836 days ago
You think downvotes and character attacks present as a good argument? Doesn't count as proof IMO if there isn't a valid argument presented, you're going to have to do a lot better than that.

And back to the main point, So I assume you agree that Netflix did go completely down the other day then right? It seems according to you that you know better of Netflix's management culture.

> I'm pretty certain this is not how Netflix's culture is.

Would you be willing to share your expert insight of this if you know better then?

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I'm not arguing Netflix, its mostly your attitude towards management and engineering culture. Basically your reply to the user "q3k". "Extrinsic motivators like 'we will give you a bonus' or 'we will fire you' are surprisingly bad at getting people to not fuck things up". You don't fire people just because they made a mistake. You find out what caused it, how to prevent it in the future, and you move on. That's what blameless post-mortems are about. No one is perfect and if you really are a manager that expects perfection, you really just suck as a person.

But now getting back to Netflix, they have post-mortems and they don't fire people willy-nilly over mistakes. Sure it's not hugops (a term I don't care for either), but they don't just up and fire people over a mistake. I never said anything about netflix going up or down on that day, but they also have problems just like everyone else. Their SLA is not 100% uptime and neither is Fastly.

In closing, you are being a pedantic little bitch who wants to argue minutia and I'm done with your trolling. I'm done responding to you, feel free to have the last reply as I really don't care anymore.