Matty StrattonI'm sure many of you are familiar with Corey Quinn, the notorious cloud comedian influencer. Corey is fairly hilarious, and recently he agreed to live-tweet as he watched my recent talk from DevOpsDays NYC 2020. For your amusement, here are the tweets.
Corey Quinn@quinnypig
In an effort to help my dear friend @mattstratton hit 9000 followers, I will now watch his most recent talk video (which I have not seen) and liveroast the living crap out of it / him in this thread. Join me! twitter.com/mattstratton/sā¦04:57 AM - 26 Mar 2020Matt "Garbage File" Stratton @mattstratton@QuinnyPig I would nominate my zebra talk, but there is stuff about trauma in it, which isn't great for roasting. but the video of my talk at devopsdays NYC just went online, so you could live-roast that? https://t.co/SzgmYuKns0
Corey Quinn@quinnypigWe start by noticing that the embedded video on the page is not in fact @mattstratton's talk, but rather @KrisBuytaert's, demonstrating the attention to detail responsible for Matt's transition out of writing code and into talking about how other people should write code instead.04:59 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypig"It's great to be back in NYC" says @mattstratton, demonstrating the primary DevRel duty of going to exotic places and drinking with your friends.05:01 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypig"I work at PagerDuty" says @mattstratton who no longer works at @pagerduty due to a rumored "sleeping through a page" incident.05:01 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypig"What the hell is a service?"
To AWS, a thing that lasts forever. To Google, a thing that's already on its way out.05:03 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigBut @mattstratton settles on the definition of service that leads directly to bikeshedding about the meaning of the word "Team."05:03 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypig"Service Mitosis," because DevOps is truly the powerhouse of the cellular architecture.05:04 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypig"Thanks to Aaron for correcting me on this slide, the old version had Stonehenge which is technically not a monolith."
True story: Stonehenge is in fact IBM's third generation mainframe.05:05 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypig"...and delineating on-call responsibility inside something like @pagerduty," says @mattstratton, checking the 'you have to pay me for this trip' box like a good DevReloper.05:06 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigPagerDuty is of course the service that wakes you up at 3AM, and (at the time of this talk) was represented by Matt who has the exhausted look and wild hair as if he was just woken up at 3AM. Now that he works for IBMHat his suits put mine to shame.05:09 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigAt this point in the talk @mattstratton demonstrates recursion by, and I am not kidding, explaining the process of explaining an inside joke.05:10 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigDemonstrating that he is not now nor will he ever be an @awscloud culture fit, @mattstratton discusses why good names are important.05:11 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigHaving vanquished the DevOps Naming Wars, Matt now turns his attention to taunting the SRE naming convention.05:12 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigNext he pivots to explaining how alerting and oncall should work, speaking ex cathedra as a person who at the time maintained no production services and whose responsibilities were confined to either business hours or conference happy hours.05:14 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigBecause he's the ThoughtLeader we deserve, @mattstratton is ahead of the curve by bypassing telling engineers they're doing it wrong and skipping directly to telling senior leadership they're doing it wrong.
Matt Stratton no longer works at PagerDuty.05:17 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigHe's now making his third reference to @honeycombio. Honeycomb doesn't employ developer advocates directly because they don't need to; everyone else speaks adoringly of them for free.05:18 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypig"This is when you want @pagerduty to wake you up."
I can only imagine the internal OKRs on midnight wakeups of others.05:20 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigNow discussing the lifecycle of a service. "Design," "build," "maintain/iterate," and eventually "retire / go work for @RedHatGov."
One guess where @mattstratton works now!05:23 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigAnd his bio is the last slide, well done.
Twitter, his podcast, his speaking site, his license plate for stalking purposes, and running the DevOps Days Chihuahua.05:25 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Corey Quinn@quinnypigAnd thus endeth the talk. "Come work with me at PagerDuty, we're hiring" sadly didn't age super well, and there was a lost opportunity to bikeshed about where microservices start and stop.
All in all, another excellent @mattstratton talk. Please follow him on the twitters.05:26 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Thanks for the laughs, Corey! You can get more great stuff from Corey on his twitter as well as his newsletter, Last Week in AWS or his two podcasts, AWS Morning Brief and Screaming in the Cloud.
