Is there a playbook you find effective to achieve his goal, and what is the timeline?

I find it hilarious that the image is of Google Play and the title used the word “this”. Pretty misleading

That’s upsetting. Running a load test weeks ahead of time to identify the upper bounds of app and infrastructure would have be a good idea… But 🤷‍♂️ I’ve lived through large marketing initiatives where us engineers were not involved and didn’t forecast a need to scale beyond normalcy before too.

Hmm. That’s a good point… Book both the aisle and window and hope nobody takes the middle! Depending on the route that’s workable.

If that doesn’t pan out, I suppose the situation is similar, but I’ll get to make someone a bit happier by swapping, which is also a win.

Seriously, thank you. I got something out of this.

We have a tech literacy problem. We should strive to teach all who are willing to learn, and refrain from demonizing those who screw up. But yeah… Hopefully this bad experience is the push some users need to hear to take it more seriously.

Yeah, this is a pretty common thing for me as well. I prefer to sit by my wife on long flights (3+ hours) and will usually pay an enormous fee for a damned middle seat. Outside of that, pfft hell no. Then it’s a toss-up whether I get what I want or not. The prices are pretty outrageous considering it costs nothing.

On exception was flying Lot Airlines to and from Poland. We picked seats together on both flights, and neither selection was honored. That was pretty BS. They couldn’t fix it at the gate because the flight was full and it would be too difficult. 🤦‍♂️

It’s a damn shame that you can’t go to a pharmacy in the airport, tell this tale, and get some xanex to zonk out and time travel to your destination.

Ah, good 'ol Jenkins. It’s on my list of software I never want to use again, twice.

One feature was really sweet though: being able to edit the Jenkinsfile script inline and run it. On the other hand, that encouraged the wild cowboy lands. Contrasted to GitHub Actions, you get to see how many commits it took to get right 🙃