How to Lose Friends and Influence Burnout

It's 4AM, the coffee on your desk is cold, the office is dark, and everyone else has gone home for the day. For the 5th time today you are coming to a dead-end while deploying your web application, and the only thing on your mind is 'Where did it all go wrong?''

1. Thursday, 12 September 13
2. NOT MUCH PYTHON Thursday, 12 September 13
3. A MIXED BAG Thursday, 12 September 13
4. IT WORKS FOR ME Thursday, 12 September 13
5. HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE BURNOUT Thursday, 12 September 13
6. HELLO KIWIPYCON Thursday, 12 September 13
7. @rhyselsmore Thursday, 12 September 13
8. @rhyselsmore (MSN: hellsk8erboi69@hotmail.com) Thursday, 12 September 13
9. WESTERN NEW ZEALAND Thursday, 12 September 13
10. Thursday, 12 September 13
11. Thursday, 12 September 13
12. Thursday, 12 September 13
13. Thursday, 12 September 13
14. (GOOD PEOPLE) Thursday, 12 September 13
15. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
16. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
17. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
18. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
19. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
20. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
21. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
22. A CONCISE INSIGHT INTO THE HISTORY OF ME Thursday, 12 September 13
23. 1999 Thursday, 12 September 13
24. 1999 Thursday, 12 September 13
25. 1999 Thursday, 12 September 13
26. 2006 Thursday, 12 September 13
27. 2006 Thursday, 12 September 13
28. 2006 Thursday, 12 September 13
29. 2008 Thursday, 12 September 13
30. 2009 Thursday, 12 September 13
31. 2009 Thursday, 12 September 13
32. BUT IN 2010 Thursday, 12 September 13
33. Thursday, 12 September 13
34. Thursday, 12 September 13
35. Thursday, 12 September 13
36. THEN IN 2011 Thursday, 12 September 13
37. Thursday, 12 September 13
38. Thursday, 12 September 13
39. Thursday, 12 September 13
40. A FEW MONTHS AGO... Thursday, 12 September 13
41. Thursday, 12 September 13
42. WE ARE A $10M COMPANY Thursday, 12 September 13
43. BUILD IT FOR THE $100M COMPANY THAT WE WILL BE! Thursday, 12 September 13
44. OK, SO WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO LOAD-BALANCE OUR APP AND PREVENT AGAINST GEO FAILURES WHILE ALSO ENSURING THAT WE DONT OVERLOAD THE DATABASE AND HAVE ENOUGH WORKERS TO HANDLE THE JOB QUEUE... Thursday, 12 September 13
45. BUT MAYBE POSTGRES ISNT THE WAY TO GO AND MONGODB WILL BE A BETTER CHOICE BUT WE WILL HIT IO LIMITS ON OUR VM SETUP SO MAYBE WE SHOULD USE DYNAMODB BUT THAT BLOWS OUR BUDGET... Thursday, 12 September 13
46. SO LETS RUN WITH TESTING OUT THE IO OF REDIS FOR STORING AND HANDLING DATA BUT AS A $100M COMPANY I AM NOT SURE HOW MUCH NETFLOW DATA WE WILL SEE WILL IT BE 10x OUR $10M COMPANIES AMOUNT OF DATA? Thursday, 12 September 13
47. Thursday, 12 September 13
48. INFORMATION OVERLOAD. Thursday, 12 September 13
49. UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS. Thursday, 12 September 13
50. WITH THE RIGHT THOUGHT PROCESS, AND THE RIGHT TOOLS, YOU SHOULDN’T NEED TO THINK LIKE THIS Thursday, 12 September 13
51. GRAB YOUR TOOLBELT. PUT THE BLINDERS ON. GO FOR GOLD. BUILD + SHIP A MASTERPIECE. Thursday, 12 September 13
52. I QUICKLY GOT OVER THIS THOUGHT PROCESS. INSTEAD, I LEARNED TO LOVE THE 12-FACTOR Thursday, 12 September 13
53. THE 12-FACTOR APP Thursday, 12 September 13
54. THE 12-FACTOR APP (12factor.net) Thursday, 12 September 13
55. DROP COST + TIME FOR NEW DEVS Thursday, 12 September 13
56. ENSURE PORTABILITY Thursday, 12 September 13
57. REDUCE DEPLOYMENT PAINS AND DEPLOYMENT FRICTION Thursday, 12 September 13
58. ENABLE SCALABLE APPS Thursday, 12 September 13
59. ENABLE CONTINUOUS DELIVERY Thursday, 12 September 13
60. ENSURE HIGHLY AVAILABLE APPS Thursday, 12 September 13
61. PYTHON + 12 FACTOR IN 5 MINUTES Thursday, 12 September 13
62. USE GIT/MECURIAL/SVN Thursday, 12 September 13
63. PIP OR BUST Thursday, 12 September 13
64. VIRTUALENV OR BUST Thursday, 12 September 13
65. VENDOR YOUR DEPENDANCIES Thursday, 12 September 13
66. STORE YOUR CONFIG IN THE ENVIRONMENT, NOT IN THE CODE Thursday, 12 September 13
67. Thursday, 12 September 13
68. Thursday, 12 September 13
69. USE DSNS FOR BACKING SERVICES. Thursday, 12 September 13
70. Thursday, 12 September 13
71. HAVE A SET BUILD PROCESS. Thursday, 12 September 13
72. LEVERAGE 3RD PARTY PROVIDERS Thursday, 12 September 13
73. RUN YOUR APP AS A SET OF PROCESSES Thursday, 12 September 13
74. UNLESS TEMPORARY, DONT PERSIST DATA TO DISK OR MEMORY Thursday, 12 September 13
75. YOUR PROCESSES SHOULD BE ISOLATED, STATELESS, AND SHARE NOTHING. Thursday, 12 September 13
76. GIVE UP ON STICKY SESSIONS. Thursday, 12 September 13
77. ENSURE THAT YOUR APP IS SELF CONTAINED. Thursday, 12 September 13
78. SCALE OUT VIA THE PROCESS MODEL. Thursday, 12 September 13
79. WORKER BROKER LOAD BALANCER TRAFFIC DATABASE WEB Thursday, 12 September 13
80. WORKER BROKER LOAD BALANCER TRAFFIC DATABASE WORKER WORKER WEB WEB WEB Thursday, 12 September 13
81. WORKER BROKER LOAD BALANCER TRAFFIC DATABASE WORKER WORKER WEB WEB WEB WORKER WORKER WEB WEB Thursday, 12 September 13
82. WORKER BROKER LOAD BALANCER TRAFFIC DATABASE WORKER WORKER WEB WEB WEB WORKER WORKER WEB WEB Thursday, 12 September 13
83. WORKER BROKER LOAD BALANCER TRAFFIC DATABASE WORKER WORKER WEB WEB WEB WORKER WORKER WEB WEB Thursday, 12 September 13
84. YOU WILL NEED MORE WEB/WORKERS BEFORE NEEDING TO WORRY ABOUT A NEW BROKER, DB, LOAD BALANCER Thursday, 12 September 13
85. RELY ON A PROCESS MANAGER. Thursday, 12 September 13
86. DEV = HONCHO PROD = SUPERVISOR Thursday, 12 September 13
87. Thursday, 12 September 13
88. Thursday, 12 September 13
89. Thursday, 12 September 13
90. Thursday, 12 September 13
91. DEV/PROD PARITY = WIN Thursday, 12 September 13
92. LOGS Thursday, 12 September 13
93. THATS THE 12-FACTOR IN A NUTSHELL Thursday, 12 September 13
94. HACKER NEWS PSA Thursday, 12 September 13
95. Thursday, 12 September 13
96. IT IS GOOD TO STAY INFORMED PSA Thursday, 12 September 13
97. PSA Thursday, 12 September 13
98. WHO HAS NOT COMMITTED? PSA Thursday, 12 September 13
99. PSA http://bit.ly/ZKfqJT prompt.engineyard.com Thursday, 12 September 13
100. MY TOOLBELT Thursday, 12 September 13
101. WEB: FLASK Thursday, 12 September 13
102. Thursday, 12 September 13
103. Thursday, 12 September 13
104. Thursday, 12 September 13
105. WEB: FLASK (I RECENTLY MADE THE SWITCH FROM GUNICORN TO UWSGI) Thursday, 12 September 13
106. ORM: SQLALCHEMY Thursday, 12 September 13
107. DB MIGRATIONS: ALEMBIC Thursday, 12 September 13
108. RDBMS: POSTGRESQL http://bit.ly/16KcKhr Thursday, 12 September 13
109. ASYNC TASKS: CELERY Thursday, 12 September 13
110. ASYNC TASKS: CELERY (BROKER = RABBITMQ) Thursday, 12 September 13
111. KEY/VALUE STORE: REDIS Thursday, 12 September 13
112. KEY/VALUE STORE: REDIS SESSIONS, CACHING, CELERY RESULTS LOW LATENCY LOOKUPS, RATE LIMITING... Thursday, 12 September 13
113. SENDING MAIL: SENDGRID Thursday, 12 September 13
114. TRAPPING MAIL: MAILTRAP mailtrap.io Thursday, 12 September 13
115. Thursday, 12 September 13
116. METRICS: LIBRATO Thursday, 12 September 13
117. Thursday, 12 September 13
118. PERFORMANCE: NEWRELIC Thursday, 12 September 13
119. Thursday, 12 September 13
120. Thursday, 12 September 13
121. $ pip install newrelic $ NEW_RELIC_CONFIG_FILE=newrelic.ini newrelic-admin run-program gunicorn -w3 app:app Thursday, 12 September 13
122. ERROR REPORTING: SENTRY getsentry.com Thursday, 12 September 13
123. WEB SERVER: NGINX Thursday, 12 September 13
124. WEB SERVER: NGINX (WHEN NOT ON HEROKU) Thursday, 12 September 13
125. OBJECT STORE: S3 Thursday, 12 September 13
126. CDN: CLOUDFRONT Thursday, 12 September 13
127. THAT’S 10 - 11 THINGS I NEED. Thursday, 12 September 13
128. THAT’S 10 - 11 THINGS I KNOW. Thursday, 12 September 13
129. I NEED A VERY GOOD REASON TO CHANGE WHAT I USE. Thursday, 12 September 13
130. TACO BELL PROGRAMMING bit.ly/177xahu PSA Thursday, 12 September 13
131. Thursday, 12 September 13
132. CELERY RABBITMQ HEROKU ROUTER PLUGIN POSTGRES CELERY CELERY FLASK APP FLASK APP REDIS FLASK APP NEW RELIC SENTRY CELERYBEAT Thursday, 12 September 13
133. 3.4M+ POTENTIAL HITS Thursday, 12 September 13
134. EVERYTHING IS SCALABLE Thursday, 12 September 13
135. BUT FOR NOW IT HAS A SMALL FOOTPRINT Thursday, 12 September 13
136. FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS; THE PRODUCT Thursday, 12 September 13
137. BURNOUT Thursday, 12 September 13
138. I WOKE UP ONE DAY IN 2009, AND TOLD MYSELF THAT TODAY WOULD BE THE DAY THAT I WOULD DO EVERY POSSIBLE THING TO GET INTO A JOB FAR FAR AWAY FROM ANYTHING TECH RELATED Thursday, 12 September 13
139. I WOKE UP ONE DAY IN 2010, AND TOLD MYSELF THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT WHEN I GO BACK TO TECH THIS TIME. I WONT BURN OUT Thursday, 12 September 13
140. IN LATE 2012, IN THE OFFICE AT 4AM I REALIZED THAT I WAS ON THE VERGE OF BURNING OUT AGAIN, AND KNEW THAT TRYING THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN WOULD NOT WORK Thursday, 12 September 13
141. Thursday, 12 September 13
142. NOT AS MUCH PRESSURE Thursday, 12 September 13
143. BETTER PROCESSES Thursday, 12 September 13
144. MOTIVATION TO DO WELL Thursday, 12 September 13
145. REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS Thursday, 12 September 13
146. IF IT ISN’T RIGHT, DONT SHIP IT Thursday, 12 September 13
147. AND SINCE? Thursday, 12 September 13
148. Thursday, 12 September 13
149. LEARN TO RECOGNIZE THE CAUSES Thursday, 12 September 13
150. A HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
151. A LACK OF RECOGNITION OR REWARD Thursday, 12 September 13
152. OVERLY DEMANDING EXPECTATIONS Thursday, 12 September 13
153. LOTS OF MONOTONOUS WORK Thursday, 12 September 13
154. LOTS OF UNCHALLENGING WORK Thursday, 12 September 13
155. A LACK OF SLEEP Thursday, 12 September 13
156. AN UNHEALTHY BALANCE Thursday, 12 September 13
157. LEARN TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS Thursday, 12 September 13
158. LACK OF MOTIVATION Thursday, 12 September 13
159. BLUNTED EMOTIONS Thursday, 12 September 13
160. DISENGAGEMENT Thursday, 12 September 13
161. DETACHMENT & DEPRESSION Thursday, 12 September 13
162. ISOLATING YOURSELF WITHDRAWING BEING A DICK TO YOUR LOVED ONES Thursday, 12 September 13
163. TIREDNESS, ILLNESS, HEADACHES Thursday, 12 September 13
164. PREVENTING BURNOUT Thursday, 12 September 13
165. SLOW DOWN Thursday, 12 September 13
166. ENSURE THAT YOU RELAX Thursday, 12 September 13
167. EATING WELL, EXERCISE, & SLEEP Thursday, 12 September 13
168. SET BOUNDARIES, & SAY NO Thursday, 12 September 13
169. JUST DISCONNECT Thursday, 12 September 13
170. FIND YOUR NON-TECH CREATIVE SIDE Thursday, 12 September 13
171. ALREADY BURNT OUT? Thursday, 12 September 13
172. GET SUPPORT Thursday, 12 September 13
173. RE-EVALUATE YOUR GOALS Thursday, 12 September 13
174. RE-EVALUATE YOUR PRIORITIES Thursday, 12 September 13
175. ADDRESS CONCERNS Thursday, 12 September 13
176. CLARIFY YOUR POSITION Thursday, 12 September 13
177. TAKE TIME OFF Thursday, 12 September 13
178. ASK FOR HELP Thursday, 12 September 13
179. IF THAT DOESN’T WORK? Thursday, 12 September 13
180. Thursday, 12 September 13
181. RECAP Thursday, 12 September 13
182. 12FACTOR.NET Thursday, 12 September 13
183. TAKE IT EASY ON THE INFORMATION ABSORPTION. Thursday, 12 September 13
184. IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU NEED HELP, FIND IT. Thursday, 12 September 13
185. YOU SHOULD NEVER RESTRICT YOURSELF. Thursday, 12 September 13
186. DONT OVER DO IT. Thursday, 12 September 13
187. CONTRIBUTE TO OPEN SOURCE. Thursday, 12 September 13
188. CONCENTRATE ON A GREAT APP, NOT SCALING. Thursday, 12 September 13
189. DONT TAKE ALL OF THIS DEV STUFF TOO SERIOUSLY... Thursday, 12 September 13
190. THANK YOU Thursday, 12 September 13
191. Questions/Comments? Thursday, 12 September 13