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by akhayam 3y ago
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I also flew the SFO<>SYD leg at least twice (generally 3+) times a year in my last job. Qantas was my preferred airline but never got to fly an A380. I flew it from SFO<>DXB for many years an
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by akhayam 3y ago
I miss flying A380s--such a pleasure. Other airlines (I am talking to you, Emirates): you bring it back too!
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by akhayam 3y ago
This ^ Anyone who thinks UI is where the latency and complexity resides should do a 3-mo residency at a cloud provider running actual infrastructure--not VMs and the like, but the actual routers, backbone links, service provider peering, an
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by akhayam 3y ago
This (only in the passing) remark really spoke to me about how true some of these predictions are turning out to be: "I have heard thoughtful comic book writers worry about how to have spectacular effects when everything visible can be
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by akhayam 3y ago
object-oriented deployment... huh... That's an interesting mental model that I didn't have. Thanks for sharing! For me, it's a standard which works well for short-cycle control loop. Standards are never perfect, but the best
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by akhayam 3y ago
I hear you, and am not advocating a full, one-size-fits-all, controller solution for control plane and workers. My take was mainly on using operators for short-cycle control loops inside workers which are inherently simpler in their busines
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by akhayam 4y ago
I see "operators"--as in people responsible for keeping k8s infra healthy--are still not using "operators"--as in the k8s code--as much as they should. It's a powerful abstraction to extend a control loop into worke
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by akhayam 4y ago
If a picture is worth a thousand words.... a well done animation is gotta be at least 10K words. Thanks for making an old topic fun to read about again!
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by akhayam 4y ago
Wow! Now that's something you don't see every day. I am always amazed at how Ethernet has stood the test of time. So so excited when Bob Metcalfe was finally awarded the 2022 Turing Award for this groundbreaking, yet often under-a
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by akhayam 4y ago
Everyone can relate to the sad demise of Heroku at this time. Sad, because they could've dominated this space which still has a lot of issues. Yet-another-infrastructure-group nailed it in their graphic about "what your infrastruc