Hard & Soft Skills to Avoid Outages by Pascal-Louis Perez

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In just a few years, Square has achieved ubiquitous recognition for mobile card processing grossing over $15B a year in credit card transactions. At the heart of Square's technology are many financial systems which must operate safely, correctly, and sustain rapid growth. This presentation will cover non-controversial topics such ad TDD, but from new angles. It'll also cover emerging practices like continuous deployment, and softer areas such as engineering management practices geared towards safety. You'll come out of this session with a fresh perspective on how to build software.

Hard & Soft Skills to
Avoid Outages
@pascallouis from @SquareNY

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Tactics

• Fighting mixing ids
• Entity bound ids (e.g. Id<T>)
• Textual ids MWDN-YP89-OLVL-USER
• Testable conﬁgurations
• etc.
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TDD

• Not controversial (anymore)
• Living code documentation
• Enables collaboration
• Technique to encode invariants
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Gold Tests

• Tests which can be changed by a (small)
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• Enforced via policy or technology
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Expressive Tests

• “Change your language and you change
your thoughts” — Karl Albrecht

• Can be implementation agnostic
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$... Given feed PaymentEventFeedListener receives: """ { "payment_id": "EPT-300", "isTivoReplay": false, "merchant": { "token": "m-1" }, ... } """ Then expect table balance_changing_events order by id: | event_type | status | process_attempts | | HOLD | UNPROCESSED | 1 | | CAPTURE | UNPROCESSED | 0 | When then the time is 2012-01-06 17:10:00 And balance changing event queue processes items Then expect table balance_changing_events order by id: | event_type | status | process_attempts | | HOLD | UNPROCESSED | 2 | | CAPTURE | PROCESSED | 1 | Code Bless Ship Maintain Proﬁt! git rm$

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Code Analysis

• In theory: static vs dynamic
• In practice: pre vs post-production
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Pre Analysis

• Type Checking
• Testing, CI
• Linters
• Forbidden Call Analysis
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Post Analysis

• Logging
• Metrics
• Invariant Checking
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Speaking of Alerts: Metrics vs Checks
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Alerting & Reporting
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Fix It Weeks

• Time set aside, monthly or quarterly
• No top-down mandate except “ﬁx it”
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Post-Mortem

• When Anytime there are issues!
• Why Learn and avoid mistakes of the past
• How Blameless
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Post-Mortem

• Go through the timeline
• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
• Action Items
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Root Cause Analysis

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Proportional Investing

• When you lose N hours to maintenance, you
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Safety drives productivity; and
unleashes creativity.
Technology, sure. But, it’s mostly about
culture and people.
Many layers of defense, lots of ways to do
it — ﬁnd what’s right for your team.

Hard & Soft Skills to Avoid Outages by Pascal-Louis Perez

In just three years, Square has achieved ubiquitous recognition for mobile card processing grossing over $10B a year in credit card transactions. At the heart of Square's technology are many financial systems which must operate safely, correctly, and sustain rapid growth. During this tech talk, Pascal will describe the concept of an immune system, go over best practices, share lessons leaned and provide a detailed layering of best practices. This talk will cover non-controversial topics such ad TDD, but from new angles. We'll also cover emerging practices like continuous deployment, and softer areas such as engineering management practices geared towards safety. You'll come out of this session with a fresh perspective on how to build software.

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