Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン (@rakyll) / X

Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン

@rakyll

Software Engineer at Google. Simpler platform, better APIs. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.

San Francisco, CA

Joined December 2007

Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Jun 18, 2021
Replying to @hbomaxhelp
Dear intern, It’s ok. I dropped a prod database when I was a senior engineer. These things happen more often than you might think. Building good systems is about having resilience against human mistakes. Because we, humans, always make mistakes.
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Aug 28, 2024
Burnout happens when there is no progress. Burnout also happens when you have no visibility into how dots will connect in the future. Burnout is about not being able to close the loop after putting a ton of effort and not seeing enough results.
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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Nov 6, 2022
I'm hearing from multiple personal sources that key engineers who survived the layoffs are resigning. These key engineers are mostly old timers and probably have a lot of financial freedom to do whatever they desire to do.
Casey Newton
@CaseyNewton
Nov 6, 2022
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Feb 25, 2023
Once I met someone who confessed that they set a crone job committing 2-7 empty changes to a private repo not to deal with this nonsense 😂
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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Mar 17, 2020
I'm working from home with my partner who is a C++ developer. He takes a break at every 15 mins to rant about some C++ feature.
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Aug 17, 2023
When I was working at Google 10 years ago, 3 engineers would get together to solve a very hard problem in 6 months without distraction from anyone, then get the sponsorship of 1-2 people from leadership to turn it a real thing and slowly grow the team.
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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Mar 14, 2023
Replying to @ElijahSchaffer
She's literally the least modest person on that street and the only one with model looks.
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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Aug 7, 2019
Nothing explains this company better than this conversation on kettle filling.
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Jan 2, 2020
git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" rm -rf .git git init git add . git commit -m "Initial commit"
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Apr 24, 2022
Next week, I'm joining GitHub as a Distinguished Engineer. As a long time GitHub user, it's going to be a true privilege to join the team to broadly work on our products, infrastructure and engineering culture.
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Mar 9, 2023
Replying to @BowTiedKong
Or modern women are not desperate to be with someone for their money...
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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Nov 7, 2022
In my early 20s, I thought sleeping only for four hours a day and working 80+ hours a week was fine. I have two chronic diseases and I rely on meds now. Don’t compromise your sleep and health for a job even if you’re the founder.
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Oct 10, 2020
Soon, I’m joining AWS as a Principal Engineer to work on AWS’s observability efforts. I’m excited to come back to this space and work with some of my favorite people again. I’ll also once again be active on open source and open standards efforts in this domain.
Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン
@rakyll
Aug 1, 2022
RRR is the highlight of the year 🔥