More Lessons from 14 years at Google
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by xnx
1 hour ago
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120bits
1 hour ago
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> 8. Avoid hero culture. Build systems that don’t require heroes.

This right here is the what I always have encountered at every team I have ever worked. There will be a production outage, one person comes in and be like "Oh, let me do this.." Magically fixes things that was never documented becomes a hero and then we do a root cause analysis and then never address the fact that, what that one person knew that service that no one else on the team did.

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AnimalMuppet
55 minutes ago
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> the work is about making it easier for normal people to do extraordinary things on a normal day.

I want to work for this guy.

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