4 Lessons from 4 Years at Google (By: Usama Bin Shafqat) - DevFest 2022

Talk by Usama Bin Shafqat (https://twitter.com/usamabinshafqat) at DevFest Lahore 2022 by GDG Lahore.

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1. DevFest Lahore | 17 Dec 2022 4 Lessons from 4 Years at Google Usama Bin Shafqat
3. Internship Seattle NYC
4. Labs @ Google
5. #1 Complex problems; not complex solutions
6. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Donald Knuth “ ”
7. #1 Complex problems; not complex solutions
8. #2 Blameless postmortems
9. A postmortem is a written record of an incident, its impact, the actions taken to mitigate or resolve it, the root cause(s), and the follow-up actions to prevent the incident from recurring. Google SRE Handbook “ ”
10. • Services will always fail; something will always go wrong. • When it does, the system is at fault–not whoever happened to be in charge at the time. • A high quality, blameless postmortem results in net improvements and a healthier team. #2 Blameless postmortems
11. #2 Blameless postmortems Timely Thorough Reflective Action Items
12. #3 Always be learning
13. Labs @ Google #3 Always be learning
14. #4 It’s a team sport
15. • All lessons lead to this one. • Think and act like an owner. • Your role is not confined to coding the solution. • Establish relationships cross-functionally. #4 It’s a team sport
16. 3 2 4 Blameless postmortems Always be learning Complex problems; not complex solutions 1 It’s a team sport LinkedIn