Your manager’s greatest fear
summary
Company runs a pre-loved marketplace; an intern implements an event deduplication that collapses repeated index events into a three‑second debounce, cutting Elasticsearch load and dropping worker servers from six to three. Management pivots to a growth model and makes ~20% of staff redundant, prompting a handoff of operations. Team adopts Google SRE ideas: 99.9% SLO with an error budget, a developer‑for‑a‑day rotation to man the sailboat, and OKRs targeting uptime and 20% infrastructure cost reduction; collaboration and uptime measurably improve.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:59The Yaxis
- 2:42Common Shapes
- 3:50Where was I
- 8:21SRs
- 9:01Celebration
- 9:11Whats next
- 10:09New strategy
- 11:26The challenge
- 13:06Developers fear Chef
- 13:36Three envelopes
- 15:21The first day on my own
- 18:07I couldnt see the forest
- 18:39Rock bottom
- 20:20The story
- 30:07Conclusion
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