Fire the tech mod and other creatures that only increase bureaucracy and create the appearance of savings.
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@an ITC or a army of disposable H1B desperate workers can do it. Just threaten to take their job and free pass to America and poof instant performance. For ITC just replace the dust until you get to a decent caste.
@dp Totally agree with you
The entire NRTD crew at PHK seems to be operating in a parallel universe and, honestly, it might be time to gently escort them to the exit with a nice fruit basket. Ask them for a feature and every request gets sent on a long spiritual retreat before it ever becomes real software. The leadership setup is also… fascinating. The Director appears to have taken on the day-to-day duties of a PE, while the PE at PHK seems to be moonlighting as a Lead. It’s like a corporate game of musical chairs where everyone sat in the wrong seat but decided to just roll with it.
Developers using these platforms now have to spelunk through these abstraction caves just to get basic things done.
And now for the latest plot twist: the team is building an in-house product to replace Fusion. Naturally, it’s being wrapped in even more layers of abstraction, because apparently the current complexity levels weren’t quite baroque enough.
At this point, it’s honestly baffling how these projects are getting approved. Instead of enabling the business, it feels like we’re investing heavily in a state-of-the-art complexity generator.
Close PHK move all to India
The DE is now in SCPT.
@dn wrong!! TM does not advocate chasing shiny new toys. I think you are confusing TM with the DE who was MD spl advisor. BTW what does he do these days (other than responding to unrelated Slack messages on a number of channels)
@dp The same reason we have an entire department for getting in the way of an EKS cluster.
The only reason we need all these support teams, platform teams, principal engineer overseers, and all the other overpriced layers of bureaucracy and process is BECAUSE so much has been shipped overseas to India. Where we hire "programmers" that have never heard of SQS, Kafka, DynamoDB, or any other tool someone with even 6 months experience would know about.
We've reached the point where offshoring costs exponentially more money than hiring someone with actual credentials. But those leaders will never fire their cousin & brother in law.
@an Networks that could be run from India...networking should be the first thing off-shored.
👇This person gets it.
Why do we have an entire department responsible for, and getting in the way of, a piddly Kafka cluster?
To say nothing about the multiple years of pain and downtime because devs were segregated from the underlying resource scaling and provisioning. Took until V3 before the "platform" was stable. And what does the platform add? A pretty UI on top of Kafka's existing apis? 5 out of 6 of my engineers have been so abstracted away from the actual technology they can't even describe a partition or consumer group.
And now we're replicating that "success" by putting a wrapper around DynamoDB?! Pardon my french but the leaders signing off on these teams' creation are LITERALLY lead paint chip eating re#@r7ed. Only outdone by the completely unqualified engineers they tribally hire.
Tech mod saves a penny in one hand and spends a dollar with the other.
TM … perpetuates chasing shiny new tools vs being operationally sound & efficient. Nike is not a tech company, we sell consumer goods. Unproven tech costs us millions every month from dropping orders, unable to pick/pack/ship and process transactional data correctly (shipping data, billing data, payment data). To external business partners Nike looks like mo--ns, data quality is abhorrent, business functionality is inflexible and not up to par with the industry (multiple teams are completely ignorant of basic business standards).
Make money by being good at what you do. Products should be bleeding edge, tech should be nearly new, proven, and bullet proof. Nike constantly upgrades systems and without adding or improving business functionality —- that stagnation makes Nike light years behind other consumer goods companies, who spend a lot less on shiny new tools and get a lot more out of them.
The goal of a new system should be that it runs itself, is reliable and intuitive … needing very little support resources and frees up your engineering staff to do the really important stuff, which is adding and improving BUSINESS functionality.
Doesn’t matter how much you saved. Merit doesn’t matter; only popularity
@OP I am part of the tech mod team...do you know how much we have saved for Nike?
Layoff everyone in IE? Yeah, that's brilliant. Many of them run all of the networks for campuses and stores globally. What could go wrong. SMH
I volunteer IE as tribute
Fire the Rese sr manager in tech frontline who apparently just wrote a book and has another job teaching people’s pets to meditate.
No wonder frontline teams are so weak.
Fire the clown running the finops stuff.
I’ve heard FPE/FTS are going to get hit hard