Adaeze Okonkwo

Ship the small thing today. The big thing is only a stack of those, and nobody ever thanked us for the version that stayed in the doc.

— on shipping before it feels ready
Lagos · joined 2019 · strategy
Adaeze Okonkwo“Ada”Founder & CEO
Rafael Iturbe

Every outage is a lesson wearing a disguise. We write the postmortem first, then we argue about the fix  never the other way around.

— on the 3am pager
Bilbao · joined 2019 · architecture
Rafael Iturbe“Rafa”Founder & CTO
Mina Halvorsen

Half of strategy is deciding what we are proudly not doing this quarter, and then defending that list from everyone who means well.

— on saying no kindly
Oslo · joined 2020 · operations
Mina Halvorsen“Halv”Chief of Staff
Dev Ramanathan

I read the logs the way other people read novels  slowly, twice, and always suspicious of the character who shows up too often.

— on incident review night
Chennai · joined 2021 · SRE
Dev Ramanathan“Cache”Reliability Engineer
Tomas Brandl

Naming things is the whole job; the rest is typing. Give a service an honest name and half of its bugs stop being mysterious.

— on the third rewrite
Vienna · joined 2021 · services
Tomas Brandl“Brandl”Backend Engineer
Yuki Sorensen

If it is not automated it is not finished, it is just quiet for now. Every manual step is a promise someone will forget to keep.

— on the deploy pipeline
Kyoto · joined 2022 · platform
Yuki Sorensen“Sori”Systems Engineer
Noor Haddad

Design is what is left after you delete the excuses. If a screen needs a paragraph to explain itself, the screen is the problem.

— on the fourth design review
Amman · joined 2022 · interface
Noor Haddad“Noor”Frontend Engineer
Emeka Bassey

Latency is a feeling long before it becomes a metric. Users leave at the moment they stop trusting the page, not at the timeout.

— on performance week
Berlin · joined 2023 · infrastructure
Emeka Bassey“Meks”Platform Engineer

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