Senior Dev @CDS_GC | Former Senior Advisor @ ESDC | My views are my own, Hedging Bets: [email protected]
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I wrote a thing, I think it's pretty good and something that I've been wanting to write for a long time.
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@canadalifeco How do I get in contact with someone about an issue with PSHCP, you aren't answering phones and your online messaging just goes nowhere.
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This @canadalifeco transition for the PSHCP is such a dumpster fire, I'm being told I now need approval for meds I've been on for 10 years and we were told this wouldn't happen.
I'm also unable to actually get through to anyone at the company to fix this issue.
This is fine.
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Happy to see this finally announced:
github.blog/changelog/2023-0…
Always nice to see something you've worked on showing up in something you read religiously!
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How do you find a family doctor in Ottawa these days?
We had one who is so burnt out they are closing their practice, seems they aren't the only one these days, not sure how I'm going to get another family doctor these days.
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I've reached that point in my life where I'm more excited to watch municipal election results than the season finale of one of the shows we've been following.
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Cost management is primarily an engineering problem, not a financial proble
“Many organizations hire people with a finance background to staff [cloud infrastructure] cost management roles. Please stop doing this — you’re making the problem worse.” #GCdigital duckbillgroup.com/blog/why-c…
This tool is one of the things I'm most proud of.
While we did build it ourselves there are lots of open source ChatOps bots or commercial versions out there.
Make it as easy as possible to call an incident and get it setup in a consistent way.
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One of the things I love the most about where I work is how self-reflective our organization can be and how willing we are to iterate and improve on how we work.
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I very much agree with what is said here in this post by my colleague.
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This article by (my colleague) Paul Craig is great.
Really sums up quite nicely a lot of experiences (and arguments) I've had over the years working in places that value Enterprise IT Platforms over small focused products that just do on thing that works.
1️⃣ New post! You don’t need a Platform, you need One Thing That Works 1️⃣
An explainer on why planning for pre-emptive platforms is a strategic blind-alley, and the One Thing you should do instead. Most of the time, sticking with simple is smarter.
federal-field-notes.ca/artic…
So glad the covid alert data is finally out there.
It took longer than I had hoped, but the metrics open data for #COVIDAlert was finally published today (alongside the app being decommissioned) github.com/cds-snc/covid-ale…
A great blogpost from my colleague,
One technique that I like to use to move faster is to decouple releases and deployments.
They are fundamentally different activities and should be treated as such, one is updating the system, the other is the enablement of new functionality
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This Micro-Acquisition Pilot - Closeout and Lessons Learned Report for aforementioned pilot at ESDC is fantastic.
More reports like this please
sara-sabr.github.io/ITStrate…
#gcdigital
It's also entirely community driven, and not tied to any specific department, it's a great place to get to know other folks in gov working in the Cloud/DevOps space.
All of the GC, @GCDevOpsLeague1 is the only group that functions as a collaborative 'Cloud COE' of people sharing ideas. #GCCLOUD #GCDIGITAL
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Just all of this please @PIPSC_IPFPC
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