Amazon's silent sacking (Changelog Interviews #573)
Justin Garrison joins us to talk about Amazon's silent sacking, from his perspective. He should know. He works there. Well, as of yesterday he quit. We discuss how the cloud and Kubernetes have transformed the way software is developed and deployed, the impact silent layoffs have on employees and their careers, speaking out about workplace issues (the right way), how changes in organizational structure can lead to gaps in expertise and responsibility which can lead to potential outages and slower response times. By the way, we officially let the cat off out of the bag in this episode. Justin has joined the ranks here at Changelog and is taking over as the host of Ship It! Expect new episodes soon.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:21 Sponsor: Neon
- 6:44 Start the show!
- 8:46 We're bringing Ship It back!
- 13:20 Let's talk kubernetes
- 16:17 Time at Amazon and sillent sacking
- 22:47 Amazon's incentive structure
- 27:28 Sponsor: Socket
- 30:52 Whistle blower moment
- 33:22 What's been the response?
- 40:24 No more pizza teams
- 44:46 There will be a major outage
- 50:31 Sponsor: Sentry
- 51:54 Jerod's offensive linemen analogy
- 1:02:33 Similarities with Twitter/X predictions
- 1:10:46 Let's talk Ship It
- 1:16:51 Sponsor Ship It
- 1:19:13 Up next!
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