The Night Agent

Just finished watching. It's formulaic, but quite new and unusual. Enjoyed it. 

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 Виноградник в Miradouro da Foz do Arelho

Грибы зонтики в нашем посёлке (в Каролайне)

 

Главная площадь в Вальядолиде

Португальская шанёжка (и язык с рыбой)

 

Западное побережье Атлантики не особо-то отличается от западного побережья Тихого океана... ну или цветом воды? Всё-таки Тихий синий.

Закат в Foz do Arelho

dybr

Well, the day was not very nice.

First, wtf I've been working on? The case that I closed yesterday, I got new information from the other team, so I reopened it, and added that information, and put it on the back burner.Mike wrote me a message that I should not have touched that case. Oh, yeah, right. People answered my questions, and I saved those answers to jira case, and he's not happy, wow, wow.

Anyway, and there is another case, "Ops case", which I was supposed to investigate. The original case was created on July 25h, since the failure happened July 24th. The case reached me a month later, and I saw that logs are not available, so I asked Brandi (who created the case) whether she has any ideas where I could find month-old logs. She was silent. Now that Mike told me to go work on that case, I wrote to Brandi, she wrote "invite Josh", I invited Josh, explained the problem; he invited three more people, and we together, by the end of the day, came to a conclusion that it's too late. (Where's SoX in this company, eh?)

Then we had a "scaling meeting". I was supposed to present this time. I was clueless about what exactly is this circus, but I as nominated as a Sprechstahlmeister or something. To prepare for that, I created a new dashboard in DataDog, and started investigating, what does it complain about. It complained about the module I was investigating all these recent weeks. So I clicked through, and eventually found that it complains exactly about the failure that I was told not to touch again. Cool. I repeated it at the meeting (Mike was nervous again).

The rest of the show was looking at the old saw-like graphs of garbage collector (I see them every week, as everyone does, but what's the meaning of it? We could probably improve it, but should we? I kind of know how to take care of memory leaks, but I'm like that cosmonaut that was not given the order to see God.

Ok, then there was a meeting about, tadam! SSL failure in frontend. And why we don't return 500. How come it's our, backend developers' business? More, it turned out that last week some ops changed the keys and updated DNS. So I was just sitting there listening. After every meeting I need a break.

Then there was a 1-1 with Mike. Mike is carefully trying to play a boss. I have to admit, technically he's pretty good. But as a boss, he's still learning. But whatever. He remembered me spending time working on that half-closed case (what else am I supposed to do, I did not have any cases since like mid-August... no, I'm not an idiot to tell him that, it's his business, not mine). Then he remembered that I missed my own talk again. Well, who notified me about that talks date and time? Mary, 20 minutes after it was supposed to start.

Crazy, right?

But then, on the other hand, Mike had explained to me the meaning of this "scaling meeting". It's a cargo cult: we are supposed to report up-up-up if we need more processing resources. Except that our team is not in the big spreadsheet, and Mike is not an idiot to ask to add our team to their reporting. They might as well not even know that we exist. But at least I know next time, what to do. Will document it all.

So, now I took a break, and will be back rather soon. Just have to finish my Duolingo French lesson.

BTW, nobody's holding me there. When I get bored, I'll just quit. There are more jobs around. And stocks are going up again, too.