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by natbennett 3y ago
Yeah I’d be a lot more confident about this if you talked some about consistency vs. availability and the details of your workload that made you want to choose this trade off. I have potentially a weird experience path here — worked with Ga
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by natbennett 3y ago
The approach here is interesting and well-documented! However, this line gives me pause— > Modern customers expect 100% availability. This is not my preference as a customer, nor has it been my experience as a vendor. For many workloads
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by natbennett 3y ago
Has OpenStack as an organization solved the problem where there’s not really such a thing as OpenStack? In terms of e.g. what APIs will be available and so on? That’s basically what stopped it back in ‘14 or so. It was too hard to provide s
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by natbennett 3y ago
You know, I always used to think that e.g. Amazon talking about “customer obsession” was stupid. Of course a business is focused on its customers? That’s where the money comes from? Then I got to see the conversation about subscriptions at
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by natbennett 3y ago
I’ve only used Java in the last ten years. I helped deal with the log4j incident at a few companies. We specifically had to patch systems that were running newer versions of Java and older versions of Spring. The exploit relied on a new met
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by natbennett 3y ago
I’ve worked at multiple places that release every day. It’s not that hard.
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by natbennett 3y ago
Depends a lot on the domain. In some domains it’s possible to slice even product stories super small. This usually takes a lot of skill from the person writing the stories. But if you can get the typical story size down to “about half a day
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by natbennett 3y ago
Berkeley has a class that teaches TDD and other XP practices. (Or at least used to.) Pivotal used to recruit a lot of new grads from Berkeley for that reason. IME, “QA” doesn’t really correlate with quality software, nor is there really a t
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by natbennett 3y ago
If storytelling isn’t part of your interviewing process you are absolutely leaving value on the table. You would be wasting less time interviewing & get better outcomes if you improved your path to getting into the interview. Ideally yo
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by natbennett 3y ago
Server is very helpful in many contexts, especially libraries and packages, and that don’t have associated commercial support obligation. It has real drawbacks for on-premise software with commercial support obligations, and shouldn’t be us
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by natbennett 3y ago
Yep. Same project regularly shipped breaking changes in “feature” updates.
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by natbennett 3y ago
Yes, “just stop using semver” is basically the solution to enterprise versioning
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by natbennett 3y ago
Yeah there’s a reason no one’s heard of it. It’s basically the installer & updater for Cloud Foundry but there’s a bunch of other incidental stuff that’s had Bosh Releases made for it over the years, including Kubernetes. It creates VMs
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by natbennett 3y ago
This is great. Especially for products that need long term support, which is basically not compatible with semantic versioning. (Since LTS versions occasionally must have security fixes that are also breaking changes backported.)
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by natbennett 3y ago
“There’s no way to…” is maybe imprecise phrasing but this is a real problem. Marketing departments really want to use that first number for Big Important Releases and only Big Important Releases. I have seen products get their version inc
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by natbennett 3y ago
This happens all the time on systems that are running hundreds of thousands of apps across hundreds of customers. The worst one I know: for a while basically all Cloud Foundry installations were stuck behind a patch release because the ro
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by natbennett 3y ago
It’s impossible to avoid the occasional breaking change in an LTS, especially for software like this. Security fixes are inherently breaking changes— just for users we don’t like.
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by natbennett 3y ago
BOSH: https://bosh.io/docs/
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by natbennett 3y ago
The work that makes cycling hosts in and out easy is itself hard. I agree that it’s the right thing to do but it’s hard.
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by natbennett 3y ago
And at a certain scale patches will come out faster than you can deploy them!
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by natbennett 3y ago
I have so far found them “useful” mostly for having a collection of system prompts, and for sharing silly prompts with friends. It’s basically a way to attach a prompt to a URL. For instance I have a “Beastie Bot” that plays a game where it
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by natbennett 3y ago
Yeah I don’t know what they’re doing with the new parts of Tanzu that don’t have revenue (will ask the next time I talk to folks, but I mostly don’t know people in that part of the org) but I haven’t seen any sign they’re cutting TAS. The o
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by natbennett 3y ago
This is missing a possible explanation: Anyone who’s not getting an “A” in Gender Studies drops it. I don’t know if this is true generally but it was the only class I personally ever dropped in college because the workload was too high. Hug
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by natbennett 3y ago
I’m not sure how to explain this but Microsoft doesn’t need OpenAI to get access to business emails.
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by natbennett 3y ago
“The jobs are located at VMware’s Palo Alto headquarters, which will remain open.”
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by natbennett 3y ago
I continue to find it vexing that these articles don’t include whether this is news to the employees involved. The transitional offers were, I have heard, pretty good.
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by natbennett 3y ago
So is VMware. Not as severely so, but they took apart a bunch of systems in Pivotal because they already had one. Never mind that Pivotal’s version worked and VMware’s didn’t. Especially amusing (in hindsight) in the case of provisioning te
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by natbennett 3y ago
They’ve run out of chip companies to buy, so they have to figure out how to buy software companies. This is a little bit speculative but I believe they’re substantially interested in VMware’s capability to buy and integrate other software c
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by natbennett 3y ago
There are a lot of people whose professional outcomes are meaningfully constrained by their ability produce clear business English. I know a guy who used to get inexplicable feedback about his communication that boiled down to “write better
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by natbennett 3y ago
There’s a lot of space between “lavish villa” and “literally lock people up.” SRO hotels, for instance.

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