Stories from an SRE: How Hans Knecht builds better developer experiences Big Ideas in App Architecture
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“My goal is to basically be AWS, but for the developers in the sense that like, my five man SRE team can support 10 developers, it can support 1000 developers” - Hans Knecht, Platform Engineer
Hans Knecht has over 10+ years in the industry at companies including Mission Lane and Capital One. Whether he is designing self-serving platforms, creating comprehensive documentation, or providing technical recommendations, his efforts ultimately help developers take the tedium out of building great applications.
Join as we discuss:
The importance of good documentation, and why the phrase “They don’t quit a bad job, they quit a bad manager” can also apply to platforms with poor documentation.The terrifying moment when a mistake in a piece of code was pushed to production (And how his team got everything back up and running).Why technical conversations are actually business conversations.Why Hans thinks everyone should learn Kubernetes.
“My goal is to basically be AWS, but for the developers in the sense that like, my five man SRE team can support 10 developers, it can support 1000 developers” - Hans Knecht, Platform Engineer
Hans Knecht has over 10+ years in the industry at companies including Mission Lane and Capital One. Whether he is designing self-serving platforms, creating comprehensive documentation, or providing technical recommendations, his efforts ultimately help developers take the tedium out of building great applications.
Join as we discuss:
The importance of good documentation, and why the phrase “They don’t quit a bad job, they quit a bad manager” can also apply to platforms with poor documentation.The terrifying moment when a mistake in a piece of code was pushed to production (And how his team got everything back up and running).Why technical conversations are actually business conversations.Why Hans thinks everyone should learn Kubernetes.
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