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How to let others make mistakes so they learn more efficiently during work hours without crashing production.

Yeah, I noticed that a bit, too. I originally meant the megathread post itself. I try not to read too many comments in such threads on Reddit; regardless of the topic ;)

Agreed. Said family member mentioned in the parent thread keeps a handheld radio (I don't know the exact tech specs, sorry) for such occasions. That said, they mostly use it to jus…

They frequently go camping with their family in the interior of BC so they always have one for emergencies. I agree they can be pricey, but it obviously paid for itself just in thi…

One of my family members has been stuck just east of Hope, British Columbia[1] for almost two days now. There is currently no cell service, but luckily they have a Garmin inReach s…

Each AWS partition can have its own browser support SLA. China's AWS console has its own [1], although it almost overlaps completely with the "classic" AWS console [2]. For the gov…

Yeah, good questions that I'd also love to see see answers to! My favorites for retro-like discussions (if you think it will be beneficial): 1. What did you worry about the most in…

It's an internal tool developed at Amazon so it's not available to the general public. That said, it's nothing super fancy. Simple collaborative sticky note app that supports Markd…

Yup, same here. Not sure how I was ever on their list :/

Another nice add-on to this format within my department is that we utilize an internal retro tool for people to post their questions for discussion. After the 20ish or minutes of s…

Congratulations Dalia! Best of luck with your new adventures in and outside of Google! Your story motivated me even more to keep nurturing my niece's interest in programming :)

I especially do not envy the UX designer & copywriting staff that may have to address this across of all AWS' consoles/public documentation. I've worked with UX/UI designers across…

Heh, when I started working in the payments space, I had fleeting moments early on where I caught myself thinking something similar. I soon realized, however, head-in-the-sanding t…

I'm doubtful browser vendors could ever properly encapsulate the various international payment use cases behind their abstraction, but I would love to be proven wrong. Bank account…

Managing. Expectations. Easily took away 75% of the stress at work and stopped from it bleeding into my private life. This can manifest itself as: - being upfront with what you do …

> synthetic in the sense of synthetic traffic, since it isn't traffic from genuine users. Yup - I think that lines up. > what is the master aggregate "switch" ? what does it do? We…

Yeah, I concede the common lingo within the company (or team even) may not align with either proper definitions or mainstream usage.

Every company I've been with seems to re-invent the terms or swich their definitions slightly. For me, currently, "canary" means a set of basic automated integration tests that are…

Yeah, very useful strategy. I've heard it go by various names (e.g. toe-dipping, one-boxing, etc.), but it's always been one of additional methods of helping ensuring safe prod dep…

> They're also more likely to steal from you, hurt or harass other employees and more. Not disagreeing with you here as I have zero experience with this, but in your experience are…

Worked for a small design company and one day everyone but me and the office manager was laid off. It was pretty weird and despite reassurances from the partners, I took it as a hi…

Agreed. I almost always dial into any large scale events at my company - regardless if it concerns me directly - to listen how ppl critically evaluate data, triage errors, and dete…

Not a manager, but I meet with my engineering manager once a week. We set the ground rules early on that we'd avoid the two extremes of the topic spectrum: project status updates a…

Agreed. I use FE frameworks a lot so I was hoping for a more detailed summary of what worked and what didn't. If the OP has a more in-depth analysis I would love to read it.