#ywahusty

Defining the term: I recently used a term and was hit with a lot of out-of-band requests for explanation. It’s a good one and excellent food for thought. ywahusty (yuh-wuh-hus-tee): you will always have users smarter than you. This basic concept is one of sound, pragmatic systems engineering that might appear to fly in the face of traditional product engineering… but doesn’t. In traditional product engineering, there is a goal to produce a product that is both accessible and useful to the largest subset of the predefined audience of the product.

Continue reading

I used to export data into Excel and do linear regressions on it… How I have no need. I am happier person and people like me more.Here’s how we made capacity planning easier for everyone.

Continue reading

Author's picture

Theo Schlossnagle

Distributed Systems, Scalability, and Operations. read more

CEO - Circonus

Maryland, USA