cbushko

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by cbushko 5y ago
If you have a datacenter of your own and several VMs, redis would be fine as a persistent store. I wouldn't do it but it would be fine. If you are in the cloud and have any hint of using kubernetes then DO NOT USE redis as a persistent
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by cbushko 5y ago
When you are old, everyone looks young. =) I see 35 year olds and think "that guy is just a kid"!
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by cbushko 5y ago
I do the following: - read, read, read about the topic at hand. I find that finding a good book on the topic gives me a baseline of information even if I do not understand or retain it all. - use the information. Play and build what I am le
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by cbushko 5y ago
As an add-on to protecting your time. I will help just about anyone that needs help but be wary of people that send you direct slack messages. Often they are messaging you directly because they are stuck. That is fine as we all get stuck so
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by cbushko 5y ago
"Effort Asymmetry". That is a fantastic phrase and is so true.
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by cbushko 5y ago
I've been the 'fixer' in so many situations and I have a tactic for this. I ask them for the following things: - a ticket to track the work - that they get approval from my manager to drop all of the work that I am curr
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by cbushko 5y ago
I feel your pain and I have been/am in your shoes. Unfortunately, you will not get the kudos for things you build unless you spend time selling those projects. I personally hate this as I want to spend my energy on building things that
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by cbushko 5y ago
I think speaking up is fine. It is when ANY engineer is lazy and doesn't bother to: a) do any research before asking the question, b) trying to understand the answer given or c) doesn't follow the answer given. I will
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Dropbox Engineering Career Framework(dropbox.github.io)
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by cbushko 5y ago
> So I proposed this to my manager, and he responded: we tracked all bugs in our system for the last 10 years, and when you look at fixed bugs that get broken again, it only occurred very rarely. So in the end, doing that was not the bes
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by cbushko 5y ago
You just sparked the thought in my head about how much has the pandemic changed this? With myself working from home and my kids being virtual that they have been to see what my day to day is like. I think they realize that I have too many m
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by cbushko 5y ago
I found that this starts to change as the kids get older. Mine are 8 and 11. They become a lot more independent and it frees up 15 minutes here and there.
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by cbushko 5y ago
I ran Jenkins at 2 companies for probably a total of 13 years. I will do everything in my lower to never use it again as I feel that I wasted so much time fighting it. Plugins, dependency hell, slow UI and so many other terrible things abou
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by cbushko 5y ago
- I think VSCode is a great piece of software until my it starts using most of my laptops resources and my fan kicks in. - I do a lot of work in a terminal. VSCodes terminal support is pretty bad. It might be better when they get nicer term
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by cbushko 5y ago
I recall two things that people complained about with the Mac support - the USB-C charging was terrible because if you turn off the monitor it stops charging the laptop. I believe the same happens when the monitor sleeps. There is also this
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by cbushko 5y ago
I bought the 34" curved Dell monitor (U3419W) with the KVM switch built in and I am very happy with it. Dell's Mac support is pretty bad but being able to hook 3 computers upto the monitor works very well. I use usb-c, HDMI and di
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by cbushko 5y ago
So basically you never have to mop your hardwood floors ever again?
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by cbushko 5y ago
For anyone that is balding but wants to keep their hair very short, I have been rotating between 2 Panasonic wet/dry beard trimmers for the last 10 years. It is wireless, adjustable and I shave my head in the shower. I have this older
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by cbushko 5y ago
Background: I worked at a very toxic startup that was run like a high-school where there was a lot of drama, backstabbing and everyone was trying to be the cool/popular kid. I learned a tonne there, especially about the type of person
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by cbushko 5y ago
The book content is basically on their website: https://threedots.tech/series/modern-business-software-in-go ...
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by cbushko 5y ago
A heads up, the book is essential the content of their website: https://threedots.tech/series/modern-business-software-in-go...
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by cbushko 5y ago
I am using GKE, buckets, cloud SQL, pubsub and IAM, big query. Our costs are 1/3rd of what AWS was. Their support isn't as good as AWS. I use terraform for everything and Google authors that provider and I find that their resource
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by cbushko 5y ago
I've done about 6 requests for increased over the last 2 years and all have been accepted. All I had to do was giveca valid business case like: "We are setting up more customer environments and are running out of X" It was us
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by cbushko 5y ago
I would think a vehicle is a better analogy. This car has tires, you create, delete and patch them. It also has an axels, gas tank, etc. This truck has tires, axels, has tank This motorcycle has tires, axels, etc
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by cbushko 5y ago
To me it looks like they mostly contribute to projects that are SDKs to use AWS.
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by cbushko 5y ago
The fire is 1/3 of the cost of the frying pan.
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by cbushko 6y ago
This resonates with me so much as I was in this position 3 years ago. My boss came to me and said "we want to move from AWS to GCP, using kubernetes and not have it be a mess like we have now" I was new, senior, free from ownershi
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by cbushko 6y ago
For me, using Kubernetes is all about the patterns that it provides and how it removes a certain class of problems for you. Deployments, scaling, logging, etc are some of the patterns it provides and the consistency matters. How many of us
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by cbushko 6y ago
I only have one thing to point out about Borg and that is large numbers of Borg developers started working on Kubernetes. They got rid of Borg mistakes and replaced them with all new mistakes. :) I don't see K8S being about lock-in at
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by cbushko 6y ago
That's fair. As I pointed out in another reply, most of my experience is with GKE so I may be spoiled in how painless it is. All I can say is that GKE is treating me well. Node upgrades are seemless, defaults are decent, it was very ea

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