Today I taught a Senior SRE the difference between dot-prefix names & non & tried (but failed) to explain how a file in the current directory is not the same as a file of the same name in a different directory.

These kids make me tired. #OpsLife

tfw your phone reminds you it's your bedtime as you're starting maintenance on something at work. #OpsLife

fwiw I'd never considered myself to have anxiety but the more I'm around other people I realize that not everyone lives like this, planning for all the worst situations and working through possible scenarios all the time. it does make me good at some #OpsLife & #DisasterPrep stuff though.

“A developer says they need this 10G file of PII data to debug a customer issue. How can I transfer it to them?”

Over. My. Dead. Body.

Then once my body has cooled, gpg encrypt that ten gigger, uuencode THAT, split it in to X 1G chunks & email them unordered to the developer w/ Unrelated names.

Pass them the file sequence via something e2e, they can figure out the rest. I’m busy decomposing. #OpsLife

That @karlkatzke tho! #devopsin #devoppery #opslife

Frank Castle telling Matt Murdock “you’re one bad day away from being me” but it’s me warning the Junior Ops kids about “one bad night of pages” being the Delta between us. #OpsLife

Never met an incident that didn't need a good working doc for timeline and changelog. Just sayin. 💙🤙#opslife

Headache status: Day 3 but applying the blunt hammer of a quadshot Americano to the problem. Because I went oncall. Like you do. #OpsLife

Worst game: AWS IAM Policy character Limit limbo. #OpsLife

Ran to the keyboard upon waking, chasing wisps of nightmares of being once more responsible for UUCP services somehow. #OpsLife

Booting a system I haven’t touched in more than a decade & seeing the fses come up clean is a warm fuzzy feeling (of false security, the devices in question are going to be destroyed & replaced). #OpsLife

I just had to break out the age old #opslife advice (like some sort of greybeard)...
Before you press the scary button, go to the bathroom and get a fresh tea, because of it all goes wrong you don't want to also being worrying about those too.

I haven't yet seen the film Everything, Everywhere all at once.
But I get the feeling I know what it's like, anytime I ask some to set the priority on tasks they need me to do.
#OpsLife #burnout

How many times do I need to remind developers that read-replicas are a thing, you don't always need to talk to the writer instance of a #database cluster.
#OpsLife #GetOffMyLawn

Slipped & fell on my way to respond to an on-call task & if that isn’t a metaphor for something, I’ll map this terrain. Once I’ve got this deploy shepherded to production, I mean. #OpsLife

Mfw when I’m getting too many pages to negotiate the idp app to finish 2fa. #OpsLife

Meetings are v important to a professional & so it’s important to determine, early in the day, how many meetings you’ve already missed that day, as well as how many you’ll skip during the rest of the day.

#OpsLife

2014-10-02T22:32:50+00:00: #NightOps GroupSelfie @MaxServ #opslife

Yay 4:10am and I have #insomnia again.
But the #pager just went off, so at least that gave me something to do for a few minutes. #OpsLife

2014-10-02T22:32:50+00:00: #NightOps GroupSelfie @MaxServ #opslife