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Every time I mention slack time as one of the most important things for healthy engineering teams people look at me as if they’re seeing water burning.

That doesn’t make it any less true though. Here’s a brief note by Martin Fowler on the topic: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Slack.html

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Doing the things listed here as a VP by Emily Nakashima sounds all nice and well (maybe fun even for some people), but the core deliverables of alignment and focus are the real test: both are impossibly hard to achieve and worth their weight in gold.

Nice to see both the scale of the problems that Discord is attacking and the detail of the write-up of how they go about it. I always wondered whether migrating from Cassandra to Scylla would be worth it and it turns out that it is.

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Extremely cool conceptual work around the CLI and how it could be possible to pry things apart, create proper primitives and communications channels, and make this an infinitely more powerful interface.