#random (2020-12)
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.
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2020-12-01
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Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. Rumors of a pending deal surfaced last week, causing Slack’s stock price to spike. Salesforce co-fou…
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2020-12-04
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Newest drop in my company’s fledgling OSS journey: A template/example repo for helm charts that automatically uploads the packages to GitHub Releases and publishes index.yaml to GitHub Pages. The goal is to make it almost effortless to self-publish custom helm charts.
Example of a Helm Charts repository that uses chart-releaser to publish a public chart repo to GitHub Pages - saic-oss/charts-example
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macOS … I want a better email client for exchange that ideally simplifies reducing noise. I personally don’t like using outlook for mac.
Any recommendations? I have to connect to exchange via VPN so office 365 focused integrations won’t work at this time. Ideally a beautiful UI with easier workflow locally on macOS.
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Spark is my go to. I’m a fan and I’d bet you can turn the knobs / dials to reduce noise.
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I’m using spike somewhat. I tried spark in the past but wouldn’t work with exchange I think without paying last time and was subscription based. Will recheck it out
2020-12-09
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Great write up by @Andy Miguel (Cloud Posse) https://bluepisces.com/why-is-it-hard-to-manage-work-for-devops-teams/
Reading time: 10 minutes Audience: Speaking to DevOps practitioners and the people that manage their work. I don’t care what work management framework your team or company claims to use, making software will still be hard. Supporting those software teams is even harder. Good frameworks can definitely help you manage and deliver your work, but… Read More »Why is it hard to manage work for DevOps teams?
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this balance is incredibly difficult in a devops world
Reading time: 10 minutes Audience: Speaking to DevOps practitioners and the people that manage their work. I don’t care what work management framework your team or company claims to use, making software will still be hard. Supporting those software teams is even harder. Good frameworks can definitely help you manage and deliver your work, but… Read More »Why is it hard to manage work for DevOps teams?
2020-12-10
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Thread by @StanTwinB: Alright folks, gather round and let me tell you the story of (almost) the biggest engineering disaster I’ve ever had the misfortune of being involved in. It’s a tale of politics, architecture ……
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2020-12-11
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making kubernetes do what it was always meant to do - order pizza
2020-12-14
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Big Google oops going on it seems.
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See Tweets about #youtubedown on Twitter. See what people are saying and join the conversation.
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I’m getting 500
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Internal Server Error
Error 500
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Today, at 3.47AM PT Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. This was resolved at 4:32AM PT, and all services are now restored.
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Happens to the best of us
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That’s why it’s called “DevOooops”
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WE will find new jobs there ?:D
2020-12-15
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Red Hat surprised the open source world with its announcment that it is pulling the plug on CENTOS. But should anyone be surprised? At the end of the day, why does it make sense to offer a product that undermines your business model? On the one hand, you have a huge investment in Red Hat Enterprise Linux that generates a ton of revenue. On the other hand, you have an underfunded effort working on an
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surprising amount of typos in that
Red Hat surprised the open source world with its announcment that it is pulling the plug on CENTOS. But should anyone be surprised? At the end of the day, why does it make sense to offer a product that undermines your business model? On the one hand, you have a huge investment in Red Hat Enterprise Linux that generates a ton of revenue. On the other hand, you have an underfunded effort working on an
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we also use centos so we’ll be looking at alternatives
2020-12-16
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As was noted here earlier, up to 18,000 customers of globally-dominant network infrastructure vendor SolarWinds may have been compromised by malicious hackers. The hackers – presumed to be operating on behalf of the Russian government – deployed…
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And no, we’re not going to prosecute the bloke who found out
2020-12-18
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I’m not a huge RHEL/CentOS fan, but I do think it’s a pretty negative blow to the Linux OSS ecosystem
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theres CentOS Stream which is RHEL beta/RHEL dev, but I don’t think it fulfills the same niche that CentOS did, which was basically unlicensed version of RHEL
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This is really promising so I’m not concerned, any more - https://rockylinux.org/
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Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.