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  • deliveratordeliverator@infosec.exchange
    Sep 1, 2026, 12:27 AM

    Listening to @ludicity podcast on #CrisisEngineering, just got to the part where the guests say something along the lines of "we can spend days reading or having meetings we have to take Novel Action" and I can't help but think there's some poor schlub(s) who have either already tried That Thing or been trying to do That Thing or already know That Thing will make it worse. New people unfamiliar with a system trying New Things seems like it could go pretty wrong.

    What they're talking about sounds cool! But I can't help but think there's some Lower Decks type story happening off screen at these times as well.

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  • deliveratordeliverator@infosec.exchange
    Sep 2, 2026, 4:55 PM

    @ludicity and a few minutes later in the podcast you guys basically talk about exactly that, how to figure out who within the org is showing up with insane ideas vs the ignored sane/competent person.

    Your podcasts are just too competent, if I wait until the end there's nothing to comment on! 🙃

    Still crazy tho if people don't think SQL can handle a whole GIGABYTE OF DATA.

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  • Ludic 🧛ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club
    Sep 2, 2026, 7:18 AM

    @deliverator A large part of their method (and what my team does in non-crisis scenarios) is to fill the room with the best ground staff we can find. Oftentimes this ends up being people like quiet analysts who we see have touched every little bit of code but who don't get thought of a lot by management. Then we bring the fresh perspective/urgency/buy-in, and they bring the "Slicing up accounts that way is frowned upon by auditors" knowledge

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  • Ludic 🧛ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club
    Sep 2, 2026, 7:19 AM

    @deliverator The highest leverage tends to be when we're helping people that don't program.

    We get lots of:

    "That won't work."
    "That would be illegal because of Obscure Law In This Domain."
    "Nope."
    "That... wait, that would work. So you're saying this 'SQL' thing can read ONE WHOLE GIGABYTE of data???"

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  • Ludic 🧛ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club
    Sep 5, 2026, 7:26 AM

    @deliverator It probably sounds extra surprising because I might have worded that poorly and implied these are mostly programmers talking

    The 1GB thing will usually come from someone that has bootstrapped themselves into Extreme Excel Programming. But yes, it also comes from weak programmers

    There are a lot of client sites where we undo a lot of architecture because someone was worried that Postgres can't handle a million rows

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