Years ago I asked someone to write a proper curl wrapper at Etsy only to realize there were already at least five in our codebase.

This talk has me rewriting next week’s all hands presentation over the weekend.

I think a classic example would be adding a caching layer when it’s not needed but that’s context specific, you don’t know from the code whether it was needed or not.

ChatGPT's theory of what happened is similar to yours ... chatgpt.com/share/68724e...

It’s marketing for the AI products they’re selling.

I often say that management is the art of repeating yourself. I started saying it to remind myself as a new manager not to be annoyed by repeating myself.

The thing I built isn't ever going to be a production system, it's just a toy I created to explore a space that's new to me. I would have never had time to do this if not for all of these wonderful modern conveniences.

We use Glean and it works quite well, both the search and chatbot are good.

Now the question is when to use a VM vs Kubernetes vs serverless.

I think cloud native is a bit outmoded, it’s the default these days. When people were migrating from data centers it indicated that you were using ephemeral resources rather than just provisioning a VM in the cloud for each computer in your data center.