bye.txt

Hi folks,

Today is my last day at Joyent. I've enjoyed working with all of you over the
last ~3 years. Some of you I've wanted to work with for over a decade! It was a
real treat to get to do so.

Over the last couple weeks I've thought about some of the things I'm proud of
accomplishing both personally and as an organization, and maybe it would be
good to remind everyone of them:

We scaled a complicated distributed storage service from a dozen servers to
thousands, globally; it can consume 200gbps; we built almost two dozen
datacenters out -- in three years! That's nuts! Anyone who ever tells you
otherwise is trying to sell you a bill of goods. We've done awesome work here
the last few years, never doubt it.

We had to scale the technology, the processes, and the organization. There's
certainly been a lot of chaos, but I could always rely on the fact that the
folks down in the foxhole with me were of the highest calibre.

The amount of blood, sweat, and tears aside -- deep engineering was required
across the board, teams really pulling together to solve crucial problems (Dell
DDR4, Dell switches, Toshiba drives, Postgres!); it required a lot of trust and
I feel like between SysOps, DCOPS, NetOps, Build, Support, Admin, and
Engineering -- that trust has born out into something I'm proud to have in a
small way helped build.

I'm going to try to take a break before whatever the next thing is. If you want
to get a hold of me, I'm bryan@pobox.com, @bdha on Twitter, or bdha on
Freenode.

The industry isn't all that big; I'm sure we'll run into each other somewhere.
I'd be quite happy to work with any of you again.

Cheers!
-- 
bdha