One of the great thing about that book was how he described checklist failure, when best practices checklists from one institution didn't generate the same results because the people in the receiving institution weren't bought into all the items within the checklist and it was just something to click through and get done.
Indeed. It’s actually one of the books that influenced me the most. It’s squarely in the middle of a Venn diagram of psychology, systems thinking, project management, neuroscience, healthcare, technology, productivity, and problem solving.
We did a similar thing. Started all in on Heroku and then slowly moved database, redis, MQ and CICD off to dedicated providers over a 4 year period. Then we spent several months creating an architecture in a different cloud provider that we felt would be our next step in evolution and finally migrated our servers off Heroku.
I'm still a fan of Heroku and would highly recommend it to a brand new startup. But, after awhile, you start realizing the limitations of Heroku and you need to move on. The fact that your startup is still around and growing enough that you need to migrate off Heroku should be seen as a sign of success
We received the exact same letter from Yelp. Our usage is significantly higher and when we talked to them, the prices they quoted were ridiculously high (thousands of dollars a month).
Exactly, we're not. We're closing our products. They are perfectly welcome to charge too high a price for us. They just should've communicated it better.
We have a analytics SaaS which displays, among many other pieces of data, ratings from different providers, including Yelp.
I assumed that Yelp had been doing this all along and we ran above some predetermined limit, but the email we received was identical to yours. So I'm thinking that Yelp is trying its best to monetize all API users
> a analytics SaaS which displays, among many other pieces of data,
Does yelp (or others) allow the restaurant to modify the menu/offer coupons in a dynamic way? (i.e. change multiple times per hour, update with in minutes)
It depends on the company and their policies. When working at large companies, there is generally a HR department that has to "approve" all firings. This is usually to make sure policies and laws are being followed.
At smaller companies in most of the US, a manager can just say bye and you're gone.
I had coworkers fly out to a training class and met up with some other attendees in the lobby prior to the training. That's when they all realized that there was no training course and no one had told any of them.
When I moved into my last house, I had a fun electrical problem. We moved in October and I would end the day by taking the trash out. Now, my garbage can was outside the door from my garage to the backyard. One night the light outside that door didn't go on. It was late, so I figured I'd look at it the next day. Worked fine all day, then at night it didn't work again. It was a new house, so I called the builder.
The electrician came out to check it and gave me the most incredulous look when I told him it didn't work at night. But he went to take a look. Came back later and said that the wire was barely touching the light fixture. So, at night, when it go colder it would slightly pull back and no longer be touching. During the day it would warm up, expand and would work just fine.
my wellhead does this when it's below 20F outside. Oxidization on the wires throughout the year mean that any shift of the wire causes a disconnect.
haven't figured out a solution, i just run a drip that is loud enough i notice if it stops so i can go out and reseat the wire, otherwise the stuff outside the well can freeze and that costs money to replace.
Sounds like you just need a better mechanical connection. There are silicone-filled waterproof wire nuts available. Maybe if you clean the wires and secure them with those all will be good?
You can (and probably will) have multiple different frontends with website vs app. If you have a clean API for the backend, then you have one set of calls which can be made from multiple different user interfaces
The random lady from HR is why a previous manager sent out a message to my team wishing me a Happy Birthday. In between saying thanks to my teammates, I messaged my boss that my birthday wasn't for another month.
