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| author | Franck Cuny <franckcuny@gmail.com> | 2016-08-04 11:12:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Franck Cuny <franckcuny@gmail.com> | 2016-08-04 11:12:37 -0700 |
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diff --git a/posts/2015-09-03-talking-about-technology.md b/posts/2015-09-03-talking-about-technology.md deleted file mode 100644 index 80a5538..0000000 --- a/posts/2015-09-03-talking-about-technology.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -I'm more and more annoyed by how the tech community is super enthusiastic about new pieces of -technology, and how hard they try to convince you it's the best next thing in the world. Way too -often, at conferences or meet-ups, the talks tend to glorify a product or a technology, and only -focus on how it will make your life easier. It's too common to have someone do a demo on stage on -how to build, in 5 minutes, a trivial application running with X many instances in a container in -the cloud and be like "see how easy it was !?". - -What will not be mentioned is how your team is going to transition to this technology or -infrastructure; what are the traps hiding; what will not work; what are the real limitations (can it -scale to more than 10 instances ? 100 instances ? 10k instances ?); how do you manage it in your -data-center; in your cloud; how easy is it to debug; what are the current issues that people running -it in production have met; what's the worst case scenario for an incident; how long can it take to -recover; and way too many other things. - -Over the last few days, I binge-watched many of the -[MesosCon](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVjgeV_avap2arug3vIz8c6l72rvh9poV)'s' videos. One of the -talk I really enjoyed was by [Joseph Smith](https://twitter.com/Yasumoto). In [his -talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrh-gdu9m4&index=8&list=PLVjgeV_avap2arug3vIz8c6l72rvh9poV), -he shared about various ways Mesos and Aurora failed at Twitter. - -Joseph's talk was the opposite of what I described earlier. He mentioned at length issues and -problems we've encountered running Aurora. Some of the issues he explored were recent (from a couple -of weeks ago); some were pretty old and are fixed by now; and also what would be the worst case -scenario that could happen. This is exactly what I want to hear when someone introduces a piece of -technology. I need to be aware of them. It doesn't mean that I'm going to be scared and will not use -it. - -I believe this is important. The public who come to a talk is, most of the time, here to learn about -a piece of technology. They might have some prior knowledge, but most of them don't. They want to -learn what can be done with it; how to use it; how it's an improvement. But more importantly, we -need to talk about the cost and path to adopt the piece of technology. Going from a simple demo -running on 2 hosts to a something running on production with hundred of thousands of users and on -thousands of instances is a different story. - -And yes, these could be questions asked by the public at the end of the talk. But not everybody -feel comfortable asking them out loud in front of their peers. - -I feel the same way about post-mortems. Companies should share them more frequently. Some companies -are [pretty good about it](https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems). I can understand, if your -product is not a service for developers, that you might not want to share them on your blog to not -scare your users. But we should still share them during conferences. Maybe there's even an -opportunity for a meet-up focused on post-Mort em ? - -Talking about issues and how difficult it might be to adopt something is not doing is disservice to -something you really enjoy working with. |
