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Re:The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking [pdf] on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:45AM (#33606805)
I’ve experienced this often, and am reminded of a book that covers research around many of your thoughts, which I listened to as I walked around a local lake. Very interesting content.

The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain https://a.co/d/4fhFI6M

Re:Ask HN: How to prioritize tech debt on old system? on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:37AM (#22653816)
The best advice I can give is to eliminate toil [1]. Non-ideal does not necessarily mean it's something you need to change.

Beyond that, the standard evaluation of where you are, where you're going, and evolving the system to get there is always necessary.

For monitoring and alerting - aim for actionable alerts first (raises on-call when there's either a known or unknown event), then warnings (slack channel message, for SLOs, not SLAs) second. It's better to be more aware than unaware at first, as it will help your team quantify the situation, so play with the thresholds.

Testing is always a balance - I'd suggest ensuring that the critical paths of your system are covered, then only strive to do better from there.

As far as scheduling to tackle the tech debt, work toward including it in the requirements for future work. You must address X to build Y, etc. Addressing technical debt as a project that leads to no new end result (eliminating toil is one), has little (but not zero) value.

[1] https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/eliminating...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016) on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @05:42PM (#11206719)
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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Monday February 01, 2016 @10:24AM (#11012210)
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