[lazide]

Bwahaha, just wait until you see the shrapnel flying over the next year.

You don’t think the steady erosion in system reliability and ever increasing outages is unrelated to these pressures do you?

I’ve seen the sausage being made at the middle manager level in big corp for a long time. It’s never any one person/hiring decision, but the pattern and it’s impact has been obvious (and getting unavoidable) for a long time.

That no one seems to want to talk about the actual issues, but doing character assassination and black listing (like this comment) is part and parcel of the problem.

[ijwann]

> You don’t think the steady erosion in system reliability and ever increasing outages is unrelated to these pressures do you?

Outages have steadily decreased at major companies. I don't know what you're looking at.

Remember AWS taking out a good chunk of the internet many times a year because their east coast data center kept going down? Remember the fail whale meme-ing because Twitter was so unstable?

Industry site reliability has only gotten better over the years.

[lazide]

Bwaha, so now everything is actually getting better and more reliable in big corp land!

I’m sure AT&T, Google, Facebook/Whatsapp/Meta, BofA, Apple, MS, and many others who have had prominent massive outages and embarrassing product launch failures this year will be happy to hear this.

Notably, Amazon is one of the few companies that has managed to avoid a lot of the DEI noise somehow. Perhaps due to their reputation for having such a brutal work culture already?

I can’t wait to hear what you’re going to say next.

Big Corp Software quality improving AND running faster on existing hardware?