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by devonkim 8y ago
I view the democratization of infrastructure similar to democracy- the best part of it is that anyone can do it, and the worst part of it is that anyone can do it. On the flipside of specialists getting involved, I also see an awful l
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Sure, Taylorism is indeed about measurements and standardization as well but where it differs greatly from the approach that Deming espoused is in where authority and primary allocators of resources are positioned and housed. In Taylorism,
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by devonkim 8y ago
I've written tens of thousands of lines of both and find Terraform requires me to write many, many less lines of code because I don't need to break out Lambda functions nor deploy a random web service to serve as a Custom Resource
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by devonkim 8y ago
The fundamental truth I've seen is that DevOps (the practices, not the role) is anti-Taylorist organizational design when most corporations are run completely opposite to that. The successes happen only when from top-down the organiz
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by devonkim 8y ago
For your specific case, you're already far, far ahead of the curve on my experiences with developers familiar with infrastructure concerns and spreading yourself too thin does nobody any good job or career-wise. I'm in the camp my
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I’ve spent hundreds and even thousands of man-hours to undo the lack of planning that developers have inflicted upon their early-stage start-up environments because they simply haven’t ever managed networks or systems beyond the scale of th
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by devonkim 8y ago
So basically anyone that can understand the basics of a good salesman from Wolf of Wallstreet can land deals better than the “moderate” personality types that have been shown to statistically deliver better sales results for most companies?
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by devonkim 8y ago
So one thing I did for a while was to take content from porn sites, extract key frames and any available images, and look for SFW images. Hard problems include detecting NSFW stuff that includes no nudity / genitalia (bodily fluids and
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by devonkim 8y ago
Large shops seem to love complexity and mistake it for flexibility while constantly complaining about how complicated things are to integrate. It puzzles me how the culture seems to keep adopting stuff so complicated that only those with an
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AWS CLI replacement: awless https://github.com/wallix/awless
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by devonkim 8y ago
I have the opposite sentiment from a more infrastructure rather than application services perspective. Earlier names like S3, EC2, SQS are more descriptive. Aurora, Redshift, Pinpoint, Fargate, Macie, etc. give me no idea what they actually
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I was working on a similar system for more general reviews and found that compared to fraudulent positive reviews negative reviews have a lot less incentives except against public figures and tend to be more honest as a result. With that
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by devonkim 8y ago
Maybe I’m just weird but I’ve never really defended my code because I never found defensiveness to be helpful for moving projects forward. In fact, most of the code I’ve put out in my career has been rushed under pressure to deliver somethi
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I didn’t downvote you because it makes sense if you believe taking money from organizations you dislike would hurt them. Not going to address whether it’s helpful or not because I have no basis to say one way or the other. The issue is that
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Not everything that happens in law is done through voting though and thus the legislation and lobbying done is studied. I remember someone publishing some results showing that for as little as $50k to a politician’s campaign you can get a r
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by devonkim 8y ago
I usually like to use the argument that if climate change scientists were held by so much money you’d see a lot more rich scientists / early retirement scientists outside pharmaceuticals, medicine, and oil & gas. In contrast, I hav
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You’re supposed to soundly distance yourself from them in very unequivocally language and NOT TAKE THEIR MONEY. For my consistency, I dislike politicians of any sort that take corporate donor money. I dislike money being such an important f
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by devonkim 8y ago
In most of the cases I've seen so far with multiple regions / POP (4 different companies of different sizes and verticals) the software never being deployed in another reason is the fundamental reason. Reasons ranged from "we
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Any stats / surveys on this? Most smaller (< 50 employees) b2c enterprise-style SaaS companies I'm anecdotally familiar with barely have enough funds to hire ops engineers let alone outsource to MSPs (even if the MSP practices
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People outsource to cloud providers because building / hiring / maintaining a team of decent engineers that provide a baseline industry bar of SLAs, SLOs is much more expensive than the eye watering costs of most cloud providers a
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The advantage I do see for Agile is in shops where management is justified in their belief that developers are being over-cautious as well as too relaxed - this is exactly the atmosphere in many low-throughout software organizations I’ve se
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by devonkim 8y ago
The new Apple SSDs in the Mac Mini 2018 are unknown so far but bets on being the latest Samsung and Toshiba NVMe SSDs for consumer class wear levels. There’s a lot of small gotchas and caveats with Thunderbolt 3 and SSDs now but they are ge
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Ah, you’re definitely on the prog / technical death side of the spectrum then, which is what the article completely ignores unfortunately. All those bands are among the more technically proficient that the genre has to offer. I can onl
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External drives would be based upon Thunderbolt 3 using USB-C compatible physical connections, and those are basically PCI-e 3.0 x4 lanes with a little external sync overhead. Samsung’s T5 drive would go along very well with these new minis
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I’m also classically trained but played some jazz and while it’s anecdata I’ve seen far more classically trained musicians in the metal scene than jazz players. While hip hop is basically pop today, I haven’t found any jazz musicians in, sa
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For me it’s all about the dissonance and I almost never listen to lyrics in any form of music and find it an annoyance. If there was a death or black metal musical, I wouldn’t like it probably, for example. The voice to me is another instru
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by devonkim 8y ago
I try to make this healthy skepticism / criticism a bit more succinct for laymen by linking to spurious correlations http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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CloudFormation is worse than Terraform in terms of tooling and simple expressions. We had to use a framework like Sceptre and write a bunch of Python functions, and Lambda functions for custom resources (and seriously, testing custom resour
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I’ve discovered that as any project becomes larger and involves more people, they all lead to patterns resembling awful enterprise corporate bureaucracies with the same political and cultural repercussions. Patterns that result in folks fil
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I gave myself a title at my last job that more accurately reflected the nature of the work - Senior Software Therapist. You get what you put into it, hopefully you don’t need the person for long, but most people that start it will probably

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