Piyush Verma
@realmeson10
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Slow, ordinary, perennially goofy. Loves aesthetics and shoes. Ex-entrepreneur.
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I can recover from work fatigue, not remorse for not trying harder.
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My Mom:
Ye pao bhaaji to main ghar pe bana doongi.
My CTO:
Ye Database to main ghar pe bana doonga.
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In India, most men look old and frail by their late 30s; you can tell they do not prioritise self-grooming.
Outside of work, What do they spend time on? Is it mostly?
- Driving in Traffic
- Household Chores
- Socializing
- Skill Building
- What else?
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Today, I completed running 5000 kms over the last 10 years.
I have been fortunate to maintain the routine despite 3 startups.
2010 ~ 105 kgs
2020 ~ 70 kgs
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When I was in Delhi, I used to take bus number 460 from the Border to Minto Road.
I was in awe of the way this guy handed out tickets. Such finesse and speed. He was like a vending machine.
He was a superconductor at room temperature.
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It's been 3 years since
@nishant_modak
and I started
@last9io
And little did we know that a day would come where if it's cricket in India it would be on
@last9io
... Contd.
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@GabbbarSingh
How is *Vistara*
@airvistara
even relevant in this tweet?
I mean,
@airvistara
is a great airline, and I recommend all
@golang
developers who deploy on
@awscloud
to fly Vistara.
But how did that make a difference in this story?
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So here's my challenge with Tech Hiring and Interviews around it.
More often that not, the questions have practically little relevance with the job function.
For senior folks, we skip any hands-on measurements.
For junior folks, we forget to measure their learnability.
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I went for an eye checkup today.
The ophthalmologist remarked that I was confusing the vision with the mission.
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When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality.
Here's a thread to offer an explanation as I have understood it.
🧵
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People who live in India:
Do you wish your parents got fitter and built an exercise regime for their age and strength?
If yes, what's stopping them/you?
1. No trusted trainers or centres.
2. Have yet to hear/think of this.
3. Exercise does not excite parents.
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I interviewed ~ 50 candidates last month.
What are they looking for:
Dollar💰
What do they want to work on:
Scale 📏
Mean time at a job:
1 year 10 months.
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Early in my career, I learned that people lose not because they need more thought but because they lack articulation.
Writing is the treadmill for your thoughts.
The more you write, the faster and more robust your thoughts become.
Start writing.
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Every time I sit in a
@Waymo
I get reminded:
There are hundred reasons why it isn’t possible but there is only one why it is;
Your will.
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When you have a great CoFounder It's the confidence that becomes contagious, and not the doubt.
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Right after 3 sleepless days:
"If you guys started this January and this is what you've built... Wow, this is great work" - Potential customer.
Who needs a coffee to stay awake, ain't me.
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We had an outage on
@last9inc
datalake ingestion today.
@last9inc
warned us about it and prevented a total outage.
#sreStories
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Super thrilled to announce
@last9inc
's partnership with
@_surgeahead
@Sequoia_India
Excited to be on this journey with
@singh_sequoia
@RajanAnandan
@smdcmc
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The single most significant reason why Engineers struggle to make good products is that they get excited about performance ahead of value delivery.
The second most important reason is that despite various variations of this message, they ignore the value delivery.
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Just build beautiful things with your craft.
Even if nobody cares today.
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And we,
@last9io
, bounced back. More robust and better. We can now handle > 350 Million Events/minute/customer.
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The biggest challenge of having grown up in a typical Indian middle-class family of the 90s is to enjoy and prioritize 'Leisure.'
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Check for first principles
Check for professional ethics
Check if they love/hate things and why
Check if they are too old to learn
Discuss Tanenbaum or Torvalds and why
Discuss Inmon vs kimball and why
Discuss Procedural vs Object oriented, and its long impact on a product
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When I was in college, I accidentally took a course on Statistics. Fast forward ~ 20 years, the learnings of that one single course helped me become a better SRE.
Some sample questions I shared with some engineers over the past few months, and many of them got it wrong.
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@subhashchy
More power to the two of you. Hope this story is updated with great progress in a few months to come 🙌
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You are never too old to be coached and never too right to not need a path.
Regardless of your age or status,
If you don't have a mentor, find one. If you don't have feedback, seek one.
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There's an Observation I have.
When folks in India join startups as executives, they have this fear/aversion of getting grease on their hands.
Any hands-on work is seen as Blue collared work, i.e not worth their time.
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@look_no_further
Software runs on Servers and Infrastructure. This underlying infrastructure can degrade at various places. This is called Observability.
We build tools to help you observe this.
Like the Control room that observes the complex trains running 24x7 on MTA or in Mumbai Locals 😊
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All observability roads lead to Dashboards.
Dashboards don't just need a visualization; they also need exceptional people to decode them.
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Little did we know that in such a short span of time, we would reach a point where:
If it's cricket in India, it would be on
@last9io
India was playing Pakistan today at the
#CricketWorldCup2023
and waking up to this message just made me remember the journey we have been on.
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At this rate, Indian startup ecosystem will have more advisors than employees.
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🏏 Every peak season of 'Cricket Scale'
@last9io
gateways accept >250 million requests a minute.
This insanity at API gateways alone can set us back by a million-dollar cloud bill 💰.
Guess how we cheaply unmarshal, validate, sanitise, and enqueue while guaranteeing 99.99%?
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Who's the most hands-on Technology leader that you know of? Could you tag them here or DM me their coordinates?
Criteria:
- Code or write technical specifications documents at least once a week.
- Serves as a Director of Engineering, VP, CTO at a 10+ member engineering org.
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Whoever believes software has become easy and accessible;
Just watch your parents struggle to set it up "independently" when they onboard to a new platform/os/app.
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High Cardinality is a hot topic in Time Series Databases.
Most solutions deal with this issue by dropping labels.
- At the time of Instrumentation
- Or before ingesting to the database.
This is like reducing the number of sensors or using a 480p camera in self-driving Cars.
🧵
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Who is the best Technical writer that you know of?
@last9inc
is about to launch some "bad a$$' tooling around for the world of Openmetrics.
But, the story can only be as good as it's text.
If your referral works, I will be your SRE for a day 🙂
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To clarify, the question is NOT to challenge people.
My curiosity is to understand where people spend most of their time because I have seen a contrasting difference in 🇺🇸 vs 🇮🇳.
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We
@last9io
are determined to solve the cardinality problem in the time series world with Levitate - our Time Series Data Warehouse.
We just released a new version of our metric gateway, which can handle cardinality workflows on some 'scale'.
But what kind of workflows? 🧵
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I will be presenting a three part series about
#SiteReliabilityEngineering
Mostly going to talk about my experiences and learnings from keeping the lights on over the past decade.
Come one, come all.
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@nileshgr
You know by grooming. I didn’t really mean looks exclusively.
Learning to play an instrument, a new language, a new sport, all of this contributes to grooming IMO.
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One thing they don't tell you about entrepreneurship is;
It's all about luck.
And you have to tirelessly work towards having a shot at being lucky.
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If you have a weekend free, start with these simple-and-small books.
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We (
@last9inc
) are looking for a Software Engineer who can _own_ our Reliability + Customer Integration pipeline.
Key requisites are: Strong *nix skills, and being able to think ahead and automate mundane / repetitive work.
If that's not you, help spread the word 🙏
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Our Sprint got delayed because the Project Manager's son had freshly fallen in love with someone, and the house was worried.
They are not a very conservative family, but the son is all of 7 years old.
I have thus requested our founder to lock his son in a cupboard.
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1/3 One of the things I think our industry can get better at is Mentoring juniors.
But, one does it out of passion and not because it's a task.
I do it, because there is a satisfaction of enabling passionate people who have the "hunger" but just need some guidance.
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I am hiring Product Managers in the Software Observability domain. Fun stuff coming.
Who are the best people (OGs) that I should be talking to?
Please RT 🙏
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Starting my book on “Software Reliability”.
Who can (professionally) help me with this book?
RT for good karma.
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Bangalore used to look like a built City. Now it just looks like a work in progress.
Software Engineers have genuinely taken this over.
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In an attempt to use Kubernetes,
Engineering teams waste more Time and $ than if they had used AMIs and Ansible.
Try and change my mind.
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How do SLOs help?
Here's a service with the following throughput and errors.
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What I hate about writing software is the latency in shipping something 'Done'.
When I sketch, a weekend is enough to roll out an Idea. The tools and skills are ready and just waiting for the idea.
But the support structure software needs to be consumable is insane.
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Here's my problem with people who provide gyaan sans anything concrete to chase.
"Your food lacks the punch and the aroma to capture the soul. It doesn't tell the story of the spice and the connection with your senses"
Vs.
"Bhaai, kaali mirch kam hai"
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Around two years ago,
@last9io
started advocating using SLOs to achieve effective SRE culture.
One of the biggest challenges was the lack of practical algorithms behind Burn Rate and alerting. This was our first attempt at it:
If you would like us to
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I missed the Mobile bus.
I missed the Kafka bus.
I missed the Blockchain bus.
I am also going to miss the AI bus.
Do I have any hope/professions left for my old age?
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As products mature, RCAs (Root Cause Analysis) fail to capture the right essence of knowledge that they can.
I’ve put together a simple cheat-sheet with Do's and Dont's that seem to have worked for us at
@last9inc
and previously.
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An iconic thing happened yesterday at
@last9io
.
Until a quarter ago, our alerting engine was marred by customer-facing bugs. So much so that the number of interruptions led to an internal SIGHUP tracker. Mainly for that team.
Yesterday, the team was finally dissolved. 🌊
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Every job is 60% what you know and 40% what you CAN now.
You, them, and I, all learned it here. Fortunate enough that someone believed in us when we didn't know it.
Test for that capability. Test for that frankness. Test, how badly do they want this job.
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Ran into a guy at a coffee shop in Mountain View.
Within *6 minutes* I know he has made enough to start a mini hedge fund and has a lot of RSUs which shift his tax brackets.
How? He told me so.
#peakBayArea
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If you use
@PrometheusIO
and write PromQL.
Imagine:
- Not having to write repeat queries.
- Share functions with peers.
- Do inline replacement with Macros.
We
@last9io
are launching a new way to supercharge your PromQLs. Now with C-like Macro support.
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Because of the buzz word driven interviews we have these days;
I have hired engineers who know all the latest blogs on how to install-and-use consul and Kafka. But do not understand multiprocessing vs multi-threading.
They understand CAP, but cannot tell TLS from HTTPS
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When you ask the Engineering team to *define* Reliability instead of the Product or Customer-Success teams, you only get the Inside view of the system.
Modern systems don't go down. They degrade. Mainly a fraction of workflows, impacting a narrow set of Users or Usecases.
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While hiring engineers. It's not a test of person's memory.
When was the last time you ran into a production issue, and your manager cut off the Internet chord, testing how good/bad you are at remembering a solution in that instant.
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Every large sporting event adds more resilience to our systems.
Team
@last9io
will be observing systems when the world is glued to the game.
All geared up and raring to go for the
#ICCCricketWorldCup
this month. 😁
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As a CTO, I so want to buy tools/platform which increase long term skills and culture of my team.
I got no time to teach, But it's important. The lack of it keeps breaking and yielding 100 urgent things.
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Most *Platform* teams are just about configuring and running a bunch of open-source software.
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Why do people even build microservices.
When they have to overprovision everything anyway and all of them talk to the same databases, there is barely any technical advantage.
Only purpose could be sociological; keep colliding teams apart.
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One of the things I struggled with as a founder was to find the right mentor who could understand my desires and ambitions and fix my form accordingly.
I met a lot of people who wanted to me change my aspirations to their coaching. But not the other way around.
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Omg! The response to this has been purely overwhelming and humbling 🙏
So many of you reached out wanting to know more about
@last9io
and what we do.
Please go ahead and book a demo at and we will send you seriously awesome merchandise and swag 😊
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I will be presenting Part2 of the series: Doing
#SiteReliabilityEngineering
the right way, on 23d June.
This part goes into choices and common pitfalls we land into whilst executing and implementing SRE practice
PS: I promise to have better Audio
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The LLM hype cycle is going to yield many RAGs to riches stories.
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For folks who are interested in Software Reliability Engineering Discussions
There is a neat Telegram group at
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So these protesters gather to burn buses and trains.
Afterwards, how do they travel back? 🤔
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"Customers are lost when latency increases" is a colossal lie.
When was the last time you stopped using a service because it was slow?
More often than not, it's always about price-point and availability.
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Everyone wants to see GitHub contributions before they hire 'em.
Noone wants to see 'em code on publicly consumable code after they hire.
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I will be speaking about Concurrency Primitives available in
#Golang
, and common pitfalls.
Come one, come all, even if you know 'em all.
Wait, I think that rhymed?
💫 Hi Gophers! Today we’re inviting you to a new
#GoLab2021
free event: "Concurrency primitives of
#Golang
: how to use and how not to" held by
@realmeson10
on May, 13 at 18:00 (CEST)!
Don't miss out! The event is free, but registration is required!
👉
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I have crossed this immigration counter hundreds of times in Singapore. All I ever saw was advertisements for enterprise grade problems. Mostly from Dell, IBM, and SAP.
It’s the first time I am looking at Observability being mainstream.
Software Observability’s time has come.
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I repeat. Humans require the same thing to be told again and again.
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Never realized, until today, what a year of precise feedback and tenacity can do to simple ideas :)
Where
@DisneyPlusHS
Engineering talks about
@last9inc
"It's a platform that is built on solid SRE principles with a twist for modern platforms."
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If you have heard enough about Levitate from
@last9io
Now Hear it from our customer:
`we were able to load 5 days of history - normally we can barely load beyond 7-8 hours without everything grinding to a halt.`
Levitate is a Prometheus-compatible Time Series Data Warehouse.
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How do you set Latency based alerts?
The most common measurement is a percentile-based expression like:
95% of the requests must complete within 350ms.
But what do you alert on:
1. only 90% are below 350ms
2. 95% take 400ms
A quick read on this
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The one filed in engineering that’s still stuck to the primitives of the 2000s:
Software Monitoring.
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