Teams
What It's Like to Be an SRE at a Small or Medium-Sized Company
· β˜• 10 min read
1. Two Years Ago I Took a Different Path Looking back now, 2021 should have been a golden year for internet workers in Wuhan to change jobs. The pandemic had passed, and we were full of hope for the future; monetary policy was loose, and companies were confident about market prospects.

SRE Goes Left, DevOps Goes Right
· β˜• 4 min read
1. A Process Divorced from Responsibility Is Meaningless Software architecture matches organizational architecture, and this shows up not only in functional boundaries but even more in the division of responsibilities. Only clear responsibility boundaries can build good team collaboration and growth. Every team and every person should understand their own goals β€” what they should take on and what they should stay out of β€” and invest their time and energy in things that benefit the primary goal, rather than sinking into trivia.

Interviewer Training - Identifying the Right People
· β˜• 4 min read
1. Interview Process Establish hiring criteria Align on hiring criteria Resume analysis Opening small talk Competency assessment Values assessment Verifying authenticity Motivation assessment Attracting strong candidates Closing the interview Filling out the interview evaluation form Assisting with onboarding follow-up 2. Before the Interview 2.1 Establish Hiring Criteria why Evaluate candidates with a unified assessment standard

Top-Down VS Bottom-Up
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In ToB Thinking at Large and Small Companies, I analyzed the ToB strategy of large companies in some detail; this post supplements the thinking on small companies’ ToB strategy from another angle. 1. What Is a ToB Service A commercial company usually maintains at least one value chain and makes its profit from it.

Write Technical Articles the Way You Write Code
· β˜• 3 min read
1. Writing Matters as Much as Writing Code From a behavioral standpoint, writing and coding are both typing; the only difference is that writing addresses people while coding addresses machines. Coding exists to control the state of a machine and make it transition according to preset instructions; writing exists to