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by erulabs 3y ago
You’re absolutely not wrong - but asking a devops engineer why they over engineered their home cluster is sort of like asking a mechanic “why is your car so fast? Couldn’t you just take the bus?”
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by erulabs 3y ago
> "As a result, we're reducing team sizes across the organization, as well as reducing seniority in certain roles that we plan to rebuild with modified leveling over the course of this year," > "There is not a lot
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by erulabs 3y ago
So that when you do have to, you know how to do it.
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by erulabs 3y ago
I mean, virtually every business that doesn't have a team of lawyers on staff (read: everyone outside the F1000) just uses a stock and mostly meaningless "we can do anything and we promise nothing, sorry-not-sorry" TOS and pr
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by erulabs 3y ago
Why is it short term? Are employees less familiar with the technology they’re using day to day more likely to stick around? I’d guess the opposite?
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by erulabs 3y ago
Interesting! This has been my recommended pattern for a for years now: a monorepo with multiple entrypoints. Worker and api and emailer etc etc services are running independently, but it’s one codebase running with different options. All th
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by erulabs 3y ago
By that logic, murder is no crime, since everyone dies eventually anyways. Hopefully you can see how "lengthening billions of lives" has some moral and economic value.
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by erulabs 3y ago
You’re not wrong, but it’s important to note that “life has adapted” means “billions or trillions of deaths”.
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by erulabs 3y ago
For me it's mostly about known-knowns. I've been responsible for pretty large/company-critical MySQL clusters and have managed to sleep soundly at night. I tend to be the "database guy" at every startup, and those s
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by erulabs 3y ago
Gotta love how far MySQL + k/v store can get ya. I have no experience with zippyDB, but MySQL and ScyllaDB certainly feels like having an M1 Abrams and a B2 Spirit in my back pocket. I’m constantly pushing the “relationships from MySQL
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by erulabs 3y ago
Mars is somewhat interesting because it has no valuable resources (at least, not valuable enough to launch back to Earth), but it does create something of political value. "Mars is a harsh Mistress" and all that.
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by erulabs 3y ago
Love it! Living-room media servers will be the Trojan horse that brings self-hosting back into existence, and will inevitably transform the internet back into a more peer-to-peer oriented existence. Once most folks have symmetrical connecti
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by erulabs 3y ago
Nonprofit does not necessarily mean taxpayer subsidized.
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by erulabs 3y ago
How could one man refer to himself as anything for 500 years? Also, they did not refer to themselves as emperor because they did not speak English. Just to poke a few no-history-required holes in your surety!
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by erulabs 3y ago
Not the parent but I take it to mean speaking directly to the child versus the child being in the same room as people who are talking.
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by erulabs 3y ago
They just had to word it this way, didn’t they? It couldn’t have been an “investigation” this time, CNN? Shameless, but still funny.
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by erulabs 3y ago
Good promo for Fastly! Fastly is a great company - effectively they're Varnish-as-a-Service, which is really a non-trivial SaaS. I hope this brings in some business for them.
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by erulabs 3y ago
As an infrastructure engineer who spends all day in Go and Bash and AWS I gotta say I’m a huge fan of Tailwind. This looks worth buying too. People are blown away by my front end skills, baby I’m just letting Copilot and Tailwind whisper sw
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by erulabs 3y ago
That wasn't the comparison. It was cloud or no cloud. Running your own hosting infrastructure from the ground up is a considerable complexity. AWS is not valuable because people are too stupid or lazy to run their own systems.
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by erulabs 3y ago
Oh PHP programmers would just rely on MySQL's groupBy, we both know it! :P
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by erulabs 3y ago
It can be trivially rolled by hand, but it’s also a pretty common function in other languages. I’d guess most node programmers reach for lodash for this.
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by erulabs 3y ago
I mean, I don’t believe my resume should be required to backup my point, but I literally maintained AC units and refueled diesel generators in datacenter as a kid. Obviously there’s more to it than A/C: and yes Equinix does a lot, but
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by erulabs 3y ago
Yes of course. If we could have run our own custom data centers, our software could have been simpler. What you’re not factoring in WRT the cloud is how complex maintaining an air conditioning unit is, or servicing diesel generators. (List
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by erulabs 3y ago
Kubernetes is not really meant to assist apps themselves. It's a tool for organizations with multiple independent development teams which helps define a single source of truth for whats running where. Kubernetes is a great fit for even
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by erulabs 3y ago
Anti-cynicism response: you also get rewarded with respect, money, and fulfillment. Obviously the answer to all questions is “it depends”, but I can’t allow a “hard work is pointless” comment to go unanswered.
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by erulabs 3y ago
From what I understand, as a layman, comparing the capabilities of a US Carrier strike group and the Moskva isn't exactly apples and oranges, but it's quite close.
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by erulabs 3y ago
I mean, the studio you're referring to just launched a huge new IP this year. It wasn't very good, but you can't accuse Bethesda of "low-risk cash in" when they just released a brand new title this year.
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by erulabs 3y ago
With Karpenter becoming an official EKS add on, I’m really hoping the new “scalesets” gets the same treatment and then we’re somewhat close to a an out of the box ci on EKS experience. Right now I’m using Karpenter, ARC, EFS and buildkit an
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by erulabs 3y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, this is perfect. Engineering for a single metric is catastrophic. It took social media to wake folks up to that but “let’s reduce STI metrics by cutting infants” really should have beaten it to the punch
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by erulabs 3y ago
Well, as a member of society, my vote goes to the market over, you know, cannibalism. Pretty sure that vote isn’t hanging in the balance of the Spotify CFO.

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