# DAG.house Eng Team Meeting 2022-03-25

### The little things @alanshaw

- Get familiar with Team norms
- Point out things if they are missing
- We have staging env
- Data goes into same cluster as production
- Different database
- Less traffic
- `staging.*.storage` / `api.staging.*.storage`
- ⚠️ DB migrations aren't supported
- 📣 Please do sanity checks before pushing to production
- Pull requests
- Tell us what it does / is
- Link to the issue it solves
- Please don't make unrelated things
- If you think something is wrong please ellaborate and describe what you think right solution is
- Don't leave positive feedback
- ⚡️Zaps
- It's not a log
- Examples
- Leave out reviewed PRs it does not communicate much
- Linking what you've reviewed is better but it does not require full team sync
- You can message interested actor directly
- Try to be eloquent
- Attended meetings
- Communicate subject and action items (better inside a document you link to)
- Bullet lists might better work in threads
- Use 🚢 when you ship instead of ⚡️
- When you deploy reason really helps
- 🔗 things for your zaps

### Ideas for talk submissions @yusefnapora

- If you demo keep it simple (so they don't fail)
- You have to choose between nervousness and excitement
- Hint: Choose excitement
- Building little things focuses you on something fun
- You also live through a experience worth sharing
- Lot of potential audiences
- Engineering focused talks (e.g like dag-cargo works)
- Can attract cool engineers
- Sometimes things need to be high level
- Be prepared to dial back
- Try to steal Alan's slides
- If someones asks you it might be scary, but do it anyway
- If you're asked questions you don't know.
- You can just say you don't know
- You may not remember & it's ok to say I'll get back to you
- People actually sympathize, they can relate

### Hiring norms @hugomrdias

- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uHlpTyXJ6dGhoILsaiYWTDFpyxLkSQpJeb6POMgBYQc/edit

### Mini retro

- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hW9Q5eC7CZXU8y3TTGb29HdXHph0EBZGcJfqdJ2RjIk/edit#

### Thanks