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# 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