solatic

70 ms·

931.
by solatic 4y ago
I'm not going to claim that Kubernetes on bare-metal is easy, but it's certainly doable . And it's worth doing, because of all the ecosystem work that's been built up on Kubernetes over the last several years, everythin
932.
by solatic 4y ago
> The reality is the company is failing, can’t pay people what you don’t have. If the company is failing, then leadership should be cutting their losses and engaging in deep layoffs. Downsize production to adjust for lower demand, preser
933.
by solatic 4y ago
> Pay them and hurt the company, or don’t pay but maybe lose your best employees. There's always another option: restructuring (the organization, compensation structures, product portfolios and market positioning...), getting in the
934.
by solatic 4y ago
Of course. The author points to a real problem whereby civilian control of the military is undermined because the underlying capabilities have eroded. But this is due to the DoD procurement moat that the Big Five persist; if it were easier
935.
by solatic 4y ago
> Because as it turns out, the reason that dumping lots of cash into prime contractors doesn’t result in what the armed forces need is because prime contractors are cash management machines who occasionally delegate grubby work to subcon
936.
by solatic 4y ago
> but their only customer is the military Not true. Their only customers may be militaries , plural, but that's not the same as the military , singular. Defense contractors routinely sell to allied countries, with complex financin
937.
by solatic 4y ago
Ten years of contract-guaranteed long-term support is also category-leading: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata Particularly for systems that are installed as appliances in customer data-
938.
by solatic 4y ago
> airports need to make money Let's start with this presumption: do they really? Are they privately held? Why? Were they built with private money or public money? Isn't the purpose of airports to facilitate access to the local
939.
by solatic 4y ago
Yep, plus, "treating people well" is something that's truly difficult to scale. Think of any nationally size company that interacts with the public - hotel chains, airlines, etc. Everything is process layered on top of proces
940.
by solatic 4y ago
> Structural problems require structural solutions. Healthy organizations, healthy people. It's not the author's conclusion, but this is basically my fantasy ever since watching Billions with Wendy Rhoades's character. In
941.
by solatic 4y ago
Shared libraries are bundled into one container, then the one container is submitted to a gauntlet of tests (service / API-level tests, e2e tests, etc.). If you're submitting an embedded device to a gauntlet of tests, you're
942.
by solatic 4y ago
Proper NoSQL design has a different perspective, it asks you "well, so what if you have an anomaly?". One example could be movies, with actors, producers, genres, etc. that could all be in separate tables in a relational database,
943.
by solatic 4y ago
Of course it can be done, but the minute that you need to spin up a VPC, your infrastructure complexity becomes considerably higher. You need to worry about subnetting, carving up IP address space and IPv4 vs. IPv6, making sure you set up V
944.
by solatic 4y ago
> provide Postgres or similar as a database choice Amplify's core architectural presumption is to only use serverless options to try to keep costs low. Serverless SQL databases are currently a big hole in AWS's offering. Yes, t
945.
by solatic 4y ago
> There also really wasn't a UI opportunity in this case Why, because the configuration is set in a text file and not in the UI? You could send an automatic email to the account holder with the warning whenever someone adds a foot-g
946.
by solatic 4y ago
Look, regarding setting cache-control headers, it's a professional tool, and it's going to be possible to shoot yourself in the foot with it. The approach to try to reduce that is to have a UI that asks people, "hey are you s
947.
by solatic 4y ago
Here in Tel Aviv, they'll never get rid of them for at least one reason: they're the only form of at-least-semi-public transportation available on the weekend (Shabbat) and Jewish holidays, when the law forbids buses and trains fr
948.
by solatic 4y ago
> the original goal should be, primarily, totally disconnected from money. Any monetary benefits should be a side effect of providing value. Value is a funny word here. You have a business if you create value for both your users/cus
949.
by solatic 4y ago
Without more details on how you tried to set up lambda... > Cold startup really is awful It has gotten significantly better over time, particularly for VPC-connected functions, as AWS no longer creates an ENI per function but re-uses an
950.
by solatic 4y ago
> Every service --- and there are dozens... Most startups that I see trying to go with microservices too early do so while keeping a shared database between the services, so they're not really microservices, but a distributed monoli
951.
by solatic 4y ago
This. Greenfield products should be serverless by default. By the time you have sustained traffic to the point where you can run the numbers and think that you could save money by switching off serverless, that's a Good Problem To Have
952.
by solatic 4y ago
The question is, where is the food and beverage going to? Containers don't have $214k of a balanced variety of foods, they have thousands of boxes of cereal. No thief is eating their way through a shipping container's worth of cer
953.
by solatic 4y ago
> If you're scaling based on a prepared image, then you can prepare the image by unpacking a tarball, rather than copying in one file... as far as i can see, this is completely orthogonal to having a single-file deployment. You hav
954.
by solatic 4y ago
> Deployment comprises copying the tarball to the server You must not scale servers up and down very frequently then. > both steps are done by a release script, so there is a single user-visible step... we do deploy the JDK separately
955.
by solatic 4y ago
I love fzf for one-liners. Simple pattern: a command gives you everything, pipe it to fzf so that you can pick one, then pipe that to a command to switch to it. alias kctx='kubectl config get-contexts -oname | fzf | xargs kubectl c
956.
by solatic 4y ago
Definition of "junior" missing. A qualified junior is someone who can take a well-specified, narrowly-scoped, low-risk task and execute it in a reasonable, not record-breaking, amount of time. They fundamentally need someone to
957.
by solatic 4y ago
Only some aspects are shared globally, like a lack of affordable housing and labor exploitation. Payday lending, forced storage charges upon eviction, low take-up of available benefits, using the tax code to assist the middle class instead
958.
by solatic 4y ago
Ok, I think I understand the point you were trying to make. As a statement by itself, sure, if your compensation is at least in part tied to the share price, then you have a financial interest in increasing the share price. But you don&#x27
959.
by solatic 4y ago
Not just three uses, but also three fundamentally different offerings: 1. If you're looking for a professional trade school, go to a state school for undergrad. Every elite graduate who joins a BigCo after finishing finds themselves sh
960.
by solatic 4y ago
In a BigCo, no individual employee has enough influence on share price to make a difference. Share-based compensation, in a BigCo, is simply a scheme to get public markets to pay a portion of an employee's compensation, rather than tak

More ›