mplewis

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   by mplewis 6y ago

   The 12-factor app has been around since at least 2014. Why do you think "containers" are "enslaving" you?
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   by mplewis 6y ago

   You don't need the complexity until you do, and then you're facing a rewrite into the complex system. Defining a deployment in YAML isn't really all that hard.
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   by mplewis 6y ago

   You're losing the ability to easily update using fuzzy specs and a lockfile if you're using pip vanilla without pip-tools or poetry.
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   by mplewis 6y ago

   Guy isn't a gender-neutral term.
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   by mplewis 6y ago

   YouTube Music is a joke.
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   by mplewis 6y ago

   If you already have Amazon Prime, their unlimited photo backup is great.
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   by mplewis 6y ago

   I love my iPod Nano Gen 2 running Rockbox.
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   by mplewis 6y ago

   For the cost of one Heroku Standard 2X worker, you can get a DigitalOcean managed k8s cluster with 5x 2GB, 1CPU nodes, and that's capable of running basically all of your hobbyist traffic - not just a single service. Heroku is nice, bu
9. 879.▲
   by mplewis 6y ago

   This wasn't a guide on how to build home servers. It was simply a post on how this person uses a tool to manage their home server. Do you have to be so negative about everything?
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Kubernetes manages your containers and keeps them up at the scale you want. If you need to scale, you can. If your VPS goes down, you don't care, you just get a new one and plug it in. Your cluster was never down. If you want to move y
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    I don't generally think that dataframes as a data interchange format are a good idea if you're looking to build long-term maintainable code. Their structure is too mutable – in my experience, they lead to kitchen sink APIs where t
12. 882.▲
    by mplewis 6y ago

    Anything with a non-trivial program flow, e.g. "do thing A, B, or C, and optionally mixin arguments D and E, with caching in between the shared steps." Lots of deploy scripts look like this.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Slow in what regard, for what use case?
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    This looks like a novel attempt at an open, collaborative space. Why do you have to be so negative about it?
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Not under this administration.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    You need a stamp to mail most ballots. You do not need a stamp to put ballots in a dropbox.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    I'm curious to know how many of these exits were in engineering – those with the privilege to know another engineering job is immediately available somewhere else – versus other roles in the company.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    How is this an Alexa knockoff when it doesn't include any home automation features?
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Serverless is not a strict upgrade to containerized service deploys in any sense.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Joining a company with garbage politics to own the libs is truly a bespoke reactionary take.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    I'm sure they'd appreciate your pull request to fix that: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    "Disinviting someone from a virtual conference who can draw a potentially large audience away from that virtual conference is not a particularly intelligent tactic." I think Uncle Bob greatly overestimates his pull in the tech tal
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Linux have shown themselves to be trustworthy maintainers of an open project. Google have not.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    This was adapted into a novel about IT/devops called The Phoenix Project. It's an excellent read.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Mirantis purchased Docker Enterprise at a firesale price last year. They've pledged support for two years, and they say they will be "continuing to invest in active Swarm development," but the writing is probably on the wall.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    saying "no" does not a devops engineer make
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    Maybe he should get better at building cars.
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    by mplewis 6y ago

    In this case, they don't. Codespaces offers a lot more functionality than the GitLab web IDE.
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    by mplewis 7y ago

    This comment is correct. Here's a Freakonomics Radio investigation into Ticketmaster: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-sc...
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    by mplewis 7y ago

    It's not a product. It's a thing he made for himself.