Growing the Next Generation of us.
summary
A concrete playbook appears: a team of ~40 where not a single prior job was in streaming shows results by converting newcomers into contributors; an incident where a cluster of FileWorkers enters a crash loop from a greedy transfer job plus a misconfiguration and framework bug becomes a learning case; projects like adaptive encoding pair new engineers with veterans, start generalist then specialize, rotate the bus factor so ownership spreads, and require history lessons and small high‑value tasks.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:13The Crucible
- 9:25Learning from Mistakes
- 12:48Starting as a generalist
- 15:17Create and grow owners
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