#random (2020-08)
Non-work banter and water cooler conversation
A place for non-work-related flimflam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber you’d prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.
Archive: https://archive.sweetops.com/random/
2020-08-03
2020-08-04
Anyone else with an Ubiquity router and an Amazon Echo ? My jaw dropped when I saw this, seconds later to find out it’s my Echo is the source of this traffic.. Anyone else has seen this ?
Don’t have Echo, but have access to Ubnt Will query around if someone else experienced the same.
Which router model you have?
@Reinholds Zviedris Edgerouter X
Clickbaity no ? Sure it has hidden costs, commercially available products however do as well and it turns out that OSS implementations are cheaper in the end ¯_(ツ)_/¯, are easier to customize and have no commercial lock-in
I think if you’re on the paying end for DevOps (as we are), you’ll quickly see how expensive Open Source can be. While no blanket statement can be made about what is cheaper, it’s worth consideration. Also, what we see happen far too often is either (a) open source is deployed without being operationalized with monitoring, gitops, backups, etc (b) it’s not maintained and falls grossly behind making upgrades difficult and costly.
Companies hire us to deploy operationalized open source software. We’ve easily been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars just to deploy prometheus/grafana. You can get a lot of datadog for that. We’ve done it now so many times that we can get the cost WAY down. But most companies don’t have that leisure.
We’ve spent hundreds of hours deploying Sentry. Have you seen how cheap their SaaS offering is? Sure, installing the helm chart is all of 1m of work. But deploying sentry well-architected with as many fully managed backing services, comprehensive monitoring and dashboards, triaging spikes causing 10-100x more events, remediating those spikes, etc is what takes the time.
@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) thats kind of how i have been feeling with working w/ prometheus although SaaS monitoring is not cheap either
2020-08-05
2020-08-08
Awesome. I placed my resignation notice and one week after the other cloud engineer does the same. I’m going to grab the popcorn.
For more background, I’m the cloud architect and lead engineer.
2020-08-10
2020-08-11
For anyone interested, here’s an interview I did last year that tells my story. It might be inspirational if you’ve ever considered long term travel as a digital nomad. https://ilovesuccess.podbean.com/e/104-erik-osterman-engineer-the-nomad-lifestyle-original/
Aha did not know you did the nomad thing. I did the same 2017 to 2018. Will definitely give it a listen!
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Sweet! I took off from 2014-2015. Then came back to LA and founded Cloud Posse.
22020-08-19
I don’t know how old that xkcd is but that scenario certainly has happened before: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm
In the same vein: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2020/07/13/bug-now-resolved-fb-ios-sdk-outage-causing-disruption-third-party-ios-apps/ when most apps on your phone would crash on startup
2020-08-21
Yes agree with a lot of your points. Especially if keeping tasks small and showing velocity.
Our rule of thumb at cloud posse is tasks should max out at 8 hours of effort. That way we show progress everyday.
2020-08-22
2020-08-24
flashbacks
A rite of passage
2020-08-27
jetbrains live share is now in Early Access https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-708#focus=Comments-27-4365766.0-0
@Joe Niland Sweet! Heard of this before, but never actually read into it. It’d be cool to #hacktoberfest some Cloud Posse module issues…
@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) interested in your thoughts or if you’ve participated in this previously.
Sounds interesting - hadn’t seen it before
Sounds like something we could participate in but coordination and reviews would be a burden
I participated the last couple of years. From that POV it was cool when I wanted to build up my open source contributions.
From the maintainer POV, it’s a good way to get more contributors. Having said that, that doesn’t seem to be an issue currently
If there are a few issues that need love, could be good to tag them and see what happens. I think we can manage reviews between us.