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Engineers isolated from customers

For the techie folks out there: Reading an article regarding Amazon’s success implementing a distributed micro-services architecture and I came across this success factor bullet. “Developers should spend some time with customer service every two years. Their they’ll actually listen to customer service calls, answer customer service e-mails, and really understand the impact of the […]

Rm -r disaster

Didn’t realize I had a simlink buried in the directory to an NFS mount pointing back at my main NAS video media directory. Arrrrgggg! And no there isn’t a backup for everything. Too many video Tb’s and it was on a Raid5. Yes you can say it… “Takes some kind of stupid kid!” Goes to […]

Ello social network

Considering a move to the new Ello social network that is ad free and doesn’t sell one’s data. It’s in beta now and is invitation only. Any of my techie friends out there interested in an invite to give it a whirl? Facebook has major problems and it would be wonderful if a viable alternative […]