kelsey-hightower-wisdom
tweets & quotes from Kelsey Hightower
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Life...
Don't take all the credit. Leave some for those doing the work. 7:09 PM · Apr 9, 2020 tweet
We spend too much time trying to make money. 10:38 PM · Mar 15, 2020 tweet
Once you've found success, your next goal should be helping others do the same. 11:58 PM - 19 Oct 2018 tweet
What skills should I invest in?
People skills.
No. I mean what tools and best practices should I learn?
Learn what respect is. Then use it on everyone around you.
8:08 PM - 26 Jun 2018 tweet
Slow down so you can speed up. 3:15 AM · Mar 26, 2018 tweet
The best you can do is solve the problems of today based on what you learned yesterday. Keep learning and stay humble. 12:34 PM - 27 Nov 2016 tweet
When people disagree with you, don't miss the opportunity to listen, and possibly learn from them. 7:26 PM · May 8, 2020 tweet
Tech...
At some point I made the decision to focus on foundational concepts; not features of a particular implementation; my tech career took off. 10:33 PM · Jan 31, 2017 tweet
2020 prediction: Monolithic applications will be back in style after people discover the drawbacks of distributed monolithic applications. 6:40 PM · Dec 11, 2017 tweet
People try to copy Netflix, but they can only copy what they see. You are copying the results, not the process. @adrianco #softwarecircus 11:08 AM · Sep 10, 2015 tweet
You haven't mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used. 5:02 PM · Feb 13, 2018 tweet
As an industry we tend to build overly complex solutions and dedicate our careers justifying their existence. This typically results in technical debt and ultimately bankruptcy. 8:47 AM - 14 Feb 2019 tweet
Selling complexity will eventually cost you. 5:06 PM - 14 Feb 2019 tweet
Treating containers like a black box will eventually leave you in the dark. 7:52 AM - 22 Jun 2018 tweet
Distributed systems are hard. You can bootstrap one in 10 minutes, but it's going to take a real time investment to understand how it works. 6:35 AM - 4 Aug 2016 tweet
My journey to FaaS has been less about learning something new and more about unlearning something old. 7:53 AM - 22 Aug 2018 tweet
Autoscaling. It's much harder than people think. Imaging trying to autoscale containers and the underlying VMs? Ever played musical chairs? 9:51 PM - 15 Dec 2016 tweet
It was much easier to deal with storage on VMs because things were fairly static; container management platforms changes everything. 9:48 PM - 15 Dec 2016 tweet
Container networking is fundamentally incompatible with current IaaS offerings, and introduces a ton of complexity. 9:42 PM - 15 Dec 2016 tweet
service mess /ˈsərvəs mes/
noun1. the result of spending more compute resources than your actual business logic dynamically generating and distributing Envoy proxy configs and TLS certificates. 12:43 AM · Jul 14, 2019 tweet
There is no single continuous integration and delivery setup that will work for everyone. You are essentially trying to automate your company's culture using bash scripts. 5:59 PM · 20 nov. 2017 tweet
They’re just making CRDs for everything. There are CRDs to take a shower. I’m like “Dude, no. You just literally go take a shower. You don’t need to do kubectl apply. Take a shower! Like, come on, we’re going a little bit too far… Recorded Jan 7, 2020” podcast
Maintaining an open-source project is like being a Flight Attendant for an airline where all tickets are free and the majority of customer surveys offer suggestions on how to fly the airplane. 4:41 PM · Jan 30, 2018 tweet
Landing is only available in the Enterprise version.
Upper management making all the technology decisions is like your parents buying your school clothes... without you. 9:23 PM · Sep 5, 2017 tweet
Screwdrivers are going to make hammers obsolete. Silly right? That's what most tech discussions turn into. 5:34 PM · Dec 20, 2017 tweet
Videos
Pace setters (marathon example)
Keynote: Reflections - KubeCon Nov. 2019
all of us are just pace setters...
it's not about where you rank on the contribution list...
it's not about how big your sponsorship is...
you come in, you help set the pace and it's ok to step aside for a moment and make room for the next person to push the thing forward...
you can always remember that you did your part to move the whole project forward...
you will always be a part of history no matter how big or how small your contribution was...
it's not a race if we're all on the same team