Which BADge do you deserve?

We all make mistakes - some worse than others. Let's acknowledge our shared imperfections and find humor in them. Together we can foster a culture that celebrates our humanity and the lessons learned from our errors. Award yourself, a friend, or a coworker one of Firefly's BADges of Honor

Software Engineering

Shift-Right Advocate

Prefers testing in production rather than shifting it left to the development phase, risking user-facing issues.

Development Velocity Manipulator

Artificially inflates or deflates development speed metrics to serve their narrative.

Job Security Specialist

Writes complex, hard-to-understand code to make themselves indispensable to the project.

Meetings Maestro

Spends more time in meetings than actual development, reducing productivity.

Git Push --force

A sly Code Review Hater, simply forces a code push bypassing all governance and policy automation.

Spaghetti Coder

Writes code with complex and tangled control structures, making it difficult to maintain and understand.

"Works on my Machine" Certified Developer

Dismisses bugs because the code works on their local setup, ignoring potential environment-specific issues.

WFH Napper

Prefers to take unexpected breaks during work-from-home, slowing down the team's progress.

Code Review Hater

Avoids code reviews, leading to unchecked code getting merged into the main branch.

Master of Non-Reproducible Defects

Creates bugs that are hard to reproduce, leading to wasted debugging efforts.

Legacy Code Enthusiast

Resists updating old, inefficient code, slowing down technological progress.

Cloud Platform Engineering

ClickOps Specialist

Prefers doing everything manually via UI clicks, rather than automating it using IaC.

Cloud Waste Maintainer

Doesn't optimize cloud resources, leading to wasteful expenditures.

Infra Drifter

Changes infrastructure configuration directly through the web console, completely ignoring the IaC pipeline.

Master of Vendor Lock-In

Designs systems heavily dependent on a single vendor's technology, limiting flexibility and resilience.

Accidental TF Destroyer

Has a knack for unwittingly running "terraform destroy", erasing infrastructure components accidentally.

Cloud Cost Maximization Expert

Selects the most expensive cloud services without optimizing for cost.

Bare Metal Ambassador

Staunchly advocates for traditional, non-cloud-based solutions, often hindering modernization efforts.

Keeping Dev EC2 Running All Night

Forgets to shut down development instances leading to unnecessary cloud costs.

Cloud Complexity Coacher

Always selects the most complex solution over simpler, equally effective alternatives.

Site Reliability Engineering

Distributed Monolith Architect

Creates a system that is theoretically distributed but in practice behaves as a single monolithic application.

Poor-Availability Architect

Designs systems that lack proper redundancy and failover mechanisms, leading to frequent downtimes.

Alert Dismisser

Ignores or turns off important system alerts, often leading to overlooked critical issues.

Off-Call Duty Officer

Avoids being on-call for support.

Unscheduled Maintenance Specialist

Frequently causes unplanned downtime due to their reckless approach to maintenance.

Inflexible Scalability Specialist

Designs systems that resist scaling causing performance bottlenecks and service outages during high demand.

Direct-to-Prod Promoter

Known for pushing changes directly to production, skipping important testing and staging environments.

Show-Stopper

Makes a big deal out of minor issues. Loves crisis management.

SecOps

Home IP Whitelister

Ensures their home IP is always whitelisted, causing potential security issues.

Sock 2 Compliance

Uses this compliance certification as a shield to avoid implementing essential security practices.

S3 Bucket Exposer

Frequently leaves cloud storage buckets publicly accessible, risking sensitive data exposure.

Non-Compliant Compliance Expert

Talks a lot about compliance but fails to implement compliant practices.

Most Privileged

Always operates with the highest system permissions, disregarding the principle of least privilege.

Zero-Trust Skeptic

Rejects the zero-trust security model, risking unauthorized access and data breaches.

Always Run as Root

Regularly uses root or administrator access, disregarding the best practice of only escalating when necessary.

Cloud-Captive Security Specialist

Relies upon cloud-provided security features, overlooking potential security risks inherent in their code and architecture.

Bonus Badge

Disclosure of Human Errors

Openly communicates their own or others’ mistakes in a way that may harm morale or trust within the team, instead of constructively addressing and learning from these errors in a private and supportive manner.