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If we want to normalize letting long term support people call themselves tech priests I'd very much appreciate it. "What were your duties at your last position?" "Performing the daily ministrations and singing the praise of the machine god."
As an archivist/librarian-programmer, I'm totally here for calling myself a tech priestess.
What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Are there issues affecting the internet backbone or something? Or just a coincidence?
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But there's always been attrition. What are some of the ways that is now different that is affecting attrition rates and their effects?
Probably increased salary and switch to permanent remote. Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k. They would only have done this to stay competitive in the current job market. This implies that many of their existing employees are underpaid relative to their peers at comparable companies and they've likely seen a large uptick in attrition. Not to mention att…
I can't help but wonder, with the increases in attrition across the industry, are we hitting some kind of tipping point where the institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing? Mistakes happen all the time but when all the people who intimately know how these systems work leave for other opportunities, disasters are bound to happen more and more.
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> What's causing people to believe that the latest round of attrition is any different? The Great Recession The Great Resignation The Great Dying (due to COVID-19)
> The Great Dying (due to COVID-19) Repeating this wise comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769427 The COVID death counts are hopelessly over-counted. This is why there's a cottage industry of people pointing out things like "COVID deaths" which mysteriously also suffered from being murdered, or drug overdoses, or undiagnosed leukaemia. Then you get into the problem of care homes being authorised to repor…
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-are-covid-19-d...
I can't help but wonder, with the increases in attrition across the industry, are we hitting some kind of tipping point where the institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing? Mistakes happen all the time but when all the people who intimately know how these systems work leave for other opportunities, disasters are bound to happen more and more.
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But there's always been attrition. What are some of the ways that is now different that is affecting attrition rates and their effects?
Probably increased salary and switch to permanent remote. Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k. They would only have done this to stay competitive in the current job market. This implies that many of their existing employees are underpaid relative to their peers at comparable companies and they've likely seen a large uptick in attrition. Not to mention att…
Does that salary cap apply to regular enterprise developers working for HR, Accounting, etc., too?
If so, kudos to Amazon.
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> The Great Dying (due to COVID-19) Repeating this wise comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769427 The COVID death counts are hopelessly over-counted. This is why there's a cottage industry of people pointing out things like "COVID deaths" which mysteriously also suffered from being murdered, or drug overdoses, or undiagnosed leukaemia. Then you get into the problem of care homes being authorised to repor…
It's shocking to see such a statement so far into the pandemic. This is solved and known already, and while complicated, we've figured it out for some time. We can easily see the massive amount of deaths when we look at excess death numbers. Covid deaths are, if anything, undercounted. To believe anything else at this point is to bury your head in the sand and avoid all scientific evidence and medical consensus. http…
This is why you are strongly urged not to rely on one region or AZ.
Seems like it would be conflict of interest to increase robustness of single AZ (so it never goes down or has its own redundancy) vs. increased revenues from multi AZ deployment. What's the point of cloud if we have to manage robustness of their own infrastructure. I can understand if that's due to natural disasters and earthquakes, but the idea should be that a single AZ should never go down barring extraordinary ci…
Worth deliberating on. I’m curious as to what the lifetime cost of ownership for an on-prem data center is relative to lifetime cost of operating in the cloud.