▲ 125 ▼ A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy. (medium.com) submitted 5 months ago by maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to c/austech@aussie.zone 12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (2 children) Perhaps its a guide on what not to do? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] goober@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 child) As another former Atlassian engineer I'd say kinda yes and kinda no depending on which bits you're looking at. One important thing a person could learn is: use existing platforms. Do not build a proprietary version of something like kubernetes. The weird internal eventing systems and fake janky kubernetes junk gave me headaches. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 point 5 months ago One time I was at a place where we got a local ISP to build us a cloud virtualisation service at a discount (i.e. we were the guinea pig), but of course it was terrible and took ages to provision anything - so when someone in Platform stood up a Rancher cluster all of the devs immediately switched to using that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] goober@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 child) As another former Atlassian engineer I'd say kinda yes and kinda no depending on which bits you're looking at. One important thing a person could learn is: use existing platforms. Do not build a proprietary version of something like kubernetes. The weird internal eventing systems and fake janky kubernetes junk gave me headaches. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 point 5 months ago One time I was at a place where we got a local ISP to build us a cloud virtualisation service at a discount (i.e. we were the guinea pig), but of course it was terrible and took ages to provision anything - so when someone in Platform stood up a Rancher cluster all of the devs immediately switched to using that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 point 5 months ago One time I was at a place where we got a local ISP to build us a cloud virtualisation service at a discount (i.e. we were the guinea pig), but of course it was terrible and took ages to provision anything - so when someone in Platform stood up a Rancher cluster all of the devs immediately switched to using that. permalink fedilink source parent