stackskipton

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by stackskipton 7d ago
First off, alot of companies don't have caching layer. It's not different languages, it's the fact that you have really capable webserver underneath. It's HAProxy -> Apache -> PHP vs HAProxy -> Golang (Net/
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by stackskipton 7d ago
It's generally easier to have language self-host itself because at scale, you will be running multiple instances of the application so instead of Ingress Controller -> Go self-hosted/Python Uvicorn, it becomes Ingress COntrolle
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by stackskipton 7d ago
Generally yes but government can currently cancel your visa due to exercising those rights in many cases.
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by stackskipton 9d ago
Even if they have payable SLA on this, most SLAs have Acts of God and Acts of War exemption.
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by stackskipton 10d ago
Because it's harm reduction. Sometimes you can reduce a vice impact by putting in friction. Too much can end with poor results for sure.
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by stackskipton 12d ago
>People in Russia and China have almost 30 percentage points more tertiary education levels than Americans do. Nonetheless social media is even more pervasive and popular in China than anywhere else in the world. Like with the panic abou
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by stackskipton 12d ago
My guess is a ton. According to https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-just-st... , they are asking for exception to anti trust as this type of collaboration would normally be massive anti trust violation.
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by stackskipton 22d ago
As Ops person, massive doubt. I've been at companies that have gotten hacked twice now, neither my department though. Both times, security vulnerabilities that hackers got into were well known, the tickets were in the backlog and depri
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by stackskipton 29d ago
Ops here, I think if you NEED that convenience, sure, rock with MUSL BUT I also see a ton of devs crowing about using MUSL on my 128GB x86 Kubernetes hosts. I have plenty of Disk Space, you can ship glibc based container.
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by stackskipton 29d ago
Great Lakes area is probably well positioned.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Last job, we did for various control/audit reasons BUT it was all IaC and tickets.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
>In particular I'm thinking of some studies of local economy in Miami when there have been bursts of immigration. That was study about Cuban immigrants into Miami, a city with large Cuban population and thus existing infrastructure
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
What? Nuclear Power workers are exposed much less than flight attendants and everyone else gets more radiation from their occasional flight. Yes, disasters are worse but most other power options are killing people in non visible ways.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
This is incorrect, all benchmarks including those from Microsoft have proven 10%-30% performance increase under Linux. https://aka.ms/aspnet/benchmarks Here is Microsoft official ones, Linux beats out Windows in almost
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
There is still plenty of Window Server using enterprises churning out .Net Framework code that must run on IIS. It's shrinking market for sure but it's still a market. If they are willing to spend money on Windows Server, 3k a yea
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Do they still maintain it as in, it gets bug fixes and security patches? Technically yes, bug fixes and security patches are still produced for Windows Server. I wouldn't call it a good level of effort but it exists. They are happy to
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Most American tech workers, myself included, have been asking for program to be reformed so it’s actually given to highly skilled workers and not used as method of outsourcing in the US. It’s not a new problem but Democrats and non Trump Re
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
SRE here, why would you create your own node images for Kubernetes Nodes? Unless they deliver some weird kernel that would cause containers not to run, there is no reason not to take cloud provider image. If you need something extra on the
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
I mean, all they have to say "We were hoping the RIGHT candidate applied that met all our criteria and they never did."
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
US Government is starting to push hard so code first needs to support it.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
SRE here, Strong disagree with do not fail readiness and liveness checks on upstream dependencies failing. There are several reason to do so and unless you have extreme start up time, what's the problem with restarting? Maybe DNS has c
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
I mean, with this custom thing, you have that question as well with downside is you cannot pick up the knowledge from off the street. I became the Kafka guy at my current company, it took me about a week of reading and every time I had furt
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
As SRE dealing with this at current company, a benefit of using well known software like Kafka is a lot of problems you will run into have solutions/guidance already available vs you having to explore solutions which a lot of time end
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Partner and I are childfree but in talking with other parents about it, I've had 3 admit, if they knew now, they wouldn't have had kids or had less. My father was one of them.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Companies do this because it's massive song and dance by everyone. Hospitals issue big bills to insurance companies knowing they will want a discount so there is plenty of wiggle room. Also, it's free marketing for insurance compa
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
In that link, government/compulsory for the United States seems to indicate times when an insurance company covered it. Voluntary/Out of Pocket is when insurance company wasn't required to cover and did or person paid out of
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
SRE here, that's a ton of pods and sounds like it's language or architecture if you are serving up so few requests per pod. We have Kubernetes here too for Java monoliths and we have 8 Pods serving more than that. Since Java has c
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Yes, it’s compliance that forces the behavior. Another reason SOC2 is mostly worthless.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Pretty sure that's what a group in my company is working on now. Except, I won't be spinning in my chair, I'll be out of a job. At least until cost skyrockets and outages get much worse.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Google generally doesn't need you logged in unless you are doing heavy privacy cleaning. Even in that case, they see data they are getting to be worthwhile enough for their other lines of business.

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