I’m an engineering lead at a large organization. I know exactly what kind of artificial barriers can be created to stop this kind of work. Architecture review boards, infrastructure police, all sorts of nonsense.
The engineering seems like displaying a GIF based on a boolean (in a database). And already done AFAIK. Maybe they need better internal tools for flipping that boolean?
The human engineering is what I'd worry about. Whatever they have been doing to verify blue-checks has probably been low volume.
If the organization cannot make this simple change in a week it needs to be dissolved.
It’s an aggressive target to be sure, but it will separate the hand wringing meeting engineers from the people who can get stuff done.
lol
I enjoy watching twitter be destroyed, but let's not b.s. about this being some magical fairy b.s.
The people who win are those with political connections to hear about the project and avoid being on it to begin with.
I’m an engineering lead at a large organization. I know exactly what kind of artificial barriers can be created to stop this kind of work. Architecture review boards, infrastructure police, all sorts of nonsense.
None of it helps the product.
The engineering seems like displaying a GIF based on a boolean (in a database). And already done AFAIK. Maybe they need better internal tools for flipping that boolean?
The human engineering is what I'd worry about. Whatever they have been doing to verify blue-checks has probably been low volume.