jordanbeiber

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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
If you have drift in actual state using Ansible you have to account for all eventualities and you simply can’t declare “make my system(s) look like this”. I’m talking “desired state” here and how to fulfill it - not “various states to switc
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by jordanbeiber 3y ago
Biggest drawback of ansible is that it is stateless and as such you can’t simply declare a desired system state and apply it. Nix is absolutely awesome in that regard. Possibly this is Ansibles biggest strength as well, as it feels incredib
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Sure, with UBI. Otherwise not so much.
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I have a couple of 2U racks vertically mounted behind a door. Takes up zero usable space! It took me way too long to realize this option - many builds using miniture casings with cooling issues later, when buying large 2U cases with 120mm f
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Can confirm. I have spent some time trying all kinds, and below 2k, not public and preferably founder and majority shareholder as CEO is just perfect. You have to focus on actual value, and empire-building is kept to a minimum.
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
This is good sales work, but far removed from knowledge work. They need to be treated differently as your driver probably differs by miles from what drives my team of system developers. For someone in sales, maybe with compensation in the f
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Temporal and its ”schedule” feature is great - it handles backfill and you can set various policies [0]. We self-host, but they have a GA cloud offering now. [1] As long as you use js/ts, go, python, php or java that is. For some jobs
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
This is a part in realization of the true cost of producing things. In Sweden we call “sale” a “realization”, meaning consumers pay the true cost without markup. I always say we’re realizing the wrong way - cost should quadruple for every H
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
There’s a body of work studying metrics and performance in software development/engineering. The push for Lean (by way of Agile) has been more pronounced within IT/tech than any other non-manufacturing industry that I know. We’ve
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Totally agree - I'm challenging the sales dept over here to actually work with process goals instead of results. For example amount of meetings might be an interesting metric, but what makes for a GOOD meeting? Can we identify a good m
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I’ve seen this a lot in the industry - sales people selling stuff they don’t really understand; engineering perf for example. Sales is simple. It requires very little knowledge - as reflected by your “GTFO”. Had there been knowledge involve
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I’ve started watching star-trek (as it makes me fall asleep immediately) - this stuff sounds like a star-trek episode! Something Dr Crusher would come up with. It makes a distant future where we quickly engineer a fix and inject it seem alm
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
The problem with software is infinitely larger when rewriting, refactoring and maintaining ”not code”. I’m in such a situation as we speak, and I’ve worked with low/no code workflow tools for more than a decade. I’ve been part in build
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Have you lived with it over longer period of time? What happens when stuff evolves and becomes integrated? I’ve, several times, seen the result of tangled lc/nc stuff gone production critical and… it becomes an unmaintainable mess that
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Good point. I guess this need to be expanded with limits on other types assets as well. Basically we’ll end up in a totalitarian society governed by an AI. That train of thought escalated quickly.
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I’ve been toying with an idea where blockchain actually is interesting: imagine all currency is on the ledger - all of it. And every coin had an (rather short) expiry! You need to create value continously or fall back to UBI. Just something
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I think there’s a large disservice in comparing architecture and construction in the real world to software. Software is more like keeping quicksand in your hands. The construction of houses take mature engineering principles and calculatio
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I’ve kind of considered something similar to this approach but ended up using a graphdb to keep dependencies instead. Using a db gives you a better way of modifying meta data in batches which might be required at scale. It also makes it pos
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
If you’ve got global consumers of services you build, and or need elastic scalability - sure. Or if you’re a really small company - sure. You should probably rely on SaaS mainly. I would say many companies fall outside of these categories t
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
This is why I’m stating it’s a management tool. Poor management requires boxes. Better management actually care and help employees perform and improve. In the end it’s about culture.
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Exactly - what does it mean? You work on stimulating things and get paid what you accept. You’ll have a yearly review where you have your say, and pay can be increased if employer think it’s worth it. Titles are problematic in teams working
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
It might have been this[0] Swedish article that got me looking in to this some years back. Here’s some more data[1]. You can quite easily find more research. It’s clear to me that the science is inconclusive regarding benefits, at best. We’
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Yes, there was a large study here in Sweden a few years back that indicated vitamin supplements tend to do more harm than good. Seems like it’s been more or less confirmed by other studies as well. Eat some fruit and a carrot!
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Well, this is possibly the only one thing they have down, IMO. It’s a strategy. No products. No quadrants. Just a more reasonable way of looking at business IT and enterprise development. It happens to mesh well with my experiences and it’s
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Gartner has at least one thing down that I believe is “the way” - they call it “postmodern ERP”. [0] In a postmodern ERP there is no ERP. It’s a strategy where you accept that different domains and companies know their business and processe
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I believe the take you see is mostly coming from enterprise developers that have witnessed the immense inefficiency and waste of larger organisations. The solution to a non-engineering savvy manager in such organization is to add more peopl
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Ken Schwaber on SAFE - unsafe at any speed: https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/unsafe-at-any-s... > Keep the values, keep the principles, think for yourself. A core premise of agile is that the
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Say sql database: Teams have agreed to use postgres for sql, this is by agreed convention. A tooling team implement hashicorp vault and build a pg module/deployment that is packaged and accessible through whatever tooling you build. Th
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
Wholeheartedly agree - convention before configuration wins with tooling even at modest scale. Larger team(s) using free form yaml configuration and templating quickly becomes messy. Setting a boundary at “configuration” and exposing config
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by jordanbeiber 4y ago
I’ve spent a lot of time doing that stuff at reasonable scale, now more than 20 years ago. Lot of fun! When discovering gpxe/ipxe it got real interesting - now we could make web calls in pxe boot mode that let us automatically select o

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