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Is this anything more than a box with some text in it and a bunch of graphics? I can't see anything else on the entire page. This is somewhat insulting to how weird (in a fun way) the early web was to me.

timthumb?

In some areas yeah they are. I’ve interviewed a few folks who are tremendously unhappy though where as previously it seems like they had one of the most content and happy workforces in tech.

Same reason GitHub is bleeding employees. (Microsoft acquisition causing forced changes at the current lifecycle of the companies)

This blog post just got me so excited. I've seen what Pine started with and now in my head I just keep thinking "keep going keep going!!" This is hopefully the kick in the pants the tech giants need, a small company slowly eating up even a tiny percentage of their sales and doing it with cheaper and completely open (and arguably better?) products.

I am mostly all-in on Apples ecosystem because I've been so continuously disappointed by the fragmentation on the Android ecosystem, and this is something that's seriously giving me a real hit of excitement!

Currently at a medium-large company. I’ve saved the company 10 years worth of my salary in the first 6 months of my position and continue to make decisions to multiply spending power on things like research.

I also try to make damn well sure everything we use is contributed too financially and we open source as much as possible.

It fills another weird niche which is where Kubernetes can't scale _enough,_ especially in large hybrid environments.

We have several thousand hosts in a single cluster across Windows/Linux, all hooked up to Nomad/Consul/Vault and it takes some effort but our team isn't that big and we manage it. With the most recent releases of Nomad and Consul they truly shine at both ends of the spectrum, small/simple and extremely large/extremely complex.

what you do instead is have an extra metric entirely per device. it's easier to have 1000 extra metrics than an extra label worth of cardinality on 1,000,000 metrics for every single update.

within prom:

  cpu{hostname,metadata,cpu_socket} 5.0
  cpu{hostname,metadata,cpu_socket} 6.0
  cpu{hostname,metadata,cpu_socket} 5.0
  cpu{hostname,metadata,cpu_socket} 4.0
  version{hostname,version_number} 1.0

instead of baking version_number in everywhere. just as an example, then you can know "oh, hostname has version number" on a chart, or even do some inversions and say "count of version number" to find stragglers.

The most recent update for Counter-Strike is honestly really great. It's a difficult game to touch as the community is in a pretty good spot meta game wise. I'd love for them to shake things up faster and more frequently, but as a spectator it's a super competitive game and I love watching it.

I’ve been extremely lucky moving to the Bay Area to be someone who has not failed. I grew up poor. Today, I have enough money for rent and bills, I still think and worry about them. The endless what if’s are a lifetime long curse, and there is no cure.

We cycle north of a million containers a day through all our Nomad clusters. Scales, functions, breaks, and is repairable all in predictable ways. The same is true for Vault and Consul.

Also if you run Windows, Nomad is your absolute best choice. I understand k8s work on Windows, however I don't know a single individual running Windows containers.

cdktf the cli is all js iirc, this is because the underlying library (jsii) is all js.

afaict the aws terraform module tends to have 100% coverage. i've never found a resource that didn't work, or didn't already have some way to use. i was able to deploy eks when it was still in beta through terraform, while i think the cloudformation stuff for eks lagged behind like almost by a year.

I'm in it right now. I thought I've been doing a good job and suddenly I'm being attacked from all angles. I'm having someone help me, but it honestly even feels like they're attacking me. The hardest part is that it feels like i'm being forced to let go of my compassion and empathy for others in order to succeed.

Try Outer Wilds (not Outer Worlds). There's a lot of games that are more vehicles of storytelling rather than what is a traditional videogames.

There’s a Singularity driver for Nomad

https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/external/singularit...

Nomad is pretty darn easy to run and scales far. I help run about 20 clusters in day job from 100 to 1800 nodes, we’re going to push one of them to over 8500 nodes here soon too.

We don’t use the Singularity driver but we wrote two of our own and they work well and are easy to maintain.

If everyone truly understands their thin and tall slice, please keep those people they are worth their weight in gold. If anything, it sounds like you have an SRE organization right now, and could use some extra developers and operators. :)

I'd take the alternate view. K8s is a huge relief from both development and operations, but it absolutely requires an entire team of dedicated folks along with re-tooling everything to fit it's paradigm. This is true of all orchestration systems, but especially true for k8s. If you have a dozen eng teams and 50 microservices, and 2 or 3 devops/SRE people because it's all in AWS/GCP/Azure, k8s is going to crash and burn. If you have a dozen eng teams with 2+ devops/SRE folks in each of them, and a handful of extra folks to form a whole new team for K8s you're in great shape.

I agree with a lot of the points you make.

Have you looked into nomad, consul and vault; along with everything they provide?

Let me try to do some quick mapping...

> load balancer provider

consul connect handles this, how you get traffic to the ingresses is still DIY... kinda. you can also use consul catalog + traefik (I've actually put in some PRs myself to make traefik work with a really huge consul catalog so you can scale it to fronting thousands of services at once). there's also fabio. you can also get bgp ip injection with consul via https://github.com/mayuresh82/gocast run as a system job to get traffic to any LB (or any workload) if that's an option.

i've also ran haproxy and openresty without any problems getting stuff from consul catalog via nomad's template stanza and just signaling them on catalog changes.

> storage provider

anything CSI that doesn't have a 100% reliance on k8s works. if you're also just running docker underneath you can use anything compatible with docker volumes, like Portworx.

> ingress controller

consul connect ingress! or traefik, both kinda serve double duty here.

> external DNS

no good story here -- with one exception, if by "external" you mean "in the same DC but not the same host," consul provides a full DNS interface that we get a lot of mileage out of.

if you're managing everything with terraform though there's no reason you can't tie tf applies to route53/ns1/dyn or anything else though!

> monitoring

open up consul/nomad's prometheus settings and schedule vmagent on each node as a system job to scrape and dump somewhere. :)

we also use/have used/will use telegraf in some situations -- victoriametrics outright accepts influx protocol so you can do telegraf/vector => victoriametrics if you want to do that instead.

> secret encryption

this is all vault. don't be afraid of vault! vault is probably hashicorp's best product and it seems heavy but it's really not.

there's a lot here that doesn't really compare at all, like the exec/raw_exec drivers. we use those today to run some exotic workloads that do really poorly in containers or that have special networking needs that can map into containers but require a lot of extra operational effort, e.g.: glb-director and haproxy running GUE tunnels.

something interesting about the above is i'm testing putting the above in the same network namespace, so you can have containerized and non-containerized workloads in the same network cgroup namespace so you can share local networking across different task runners.

I would imagine it does some kind of atomic swap, where it's just force updating an existing cache and not actually flushing it.

Where did you get your knowledge? With places like HackerNews along with folks like yourself and myself writing posts about this kind of stuff it becomes trivial to walk down a rabbit hole for anyone of any age. Think back to how much you accomplished when you were younger because you were walking in the footsteps of others. :)

A good friend and co-worker of mine went remote several months ago, and no, he does not get healthcare anymore. I am not aware of what his full healthcare situation is but I cannot imagine it's cheap.

In some of their older videos they have Diesel engines powering them, so they definitely have the capability to make some longer ranges. I was unable to find any articles but if you watch the older videos their engines are extremely loud. Definitely not fully electric.

For LinkedIn that number can be 7+ figures saved per year by a single employee.

The company I work for did. I asked to edit the post to add my specific posting and they said it couldn't be done. It'll be there next month though!

This is legitimately what we're doing. We're bringing in really junior folks and spending years training/improving them. Unfortunately that doesn't help now. I thought it would be easier this year to hire due to COVID and layoffs, but it just hasn't been.

It's really unfortunate. Cloud allows rapid iteration, but doing a bit of self-hosting/colocation is such an insane cost savings that I think a lot of folks are really missing out on. I know at least 1 startup I worked at that would've had a more comfortable runway had they not went wholesale into AWS instead of playing it smart with hybrid. Paying a small team of folks even an astronomical salary to keep a small number of servers up 24/7 and use cloud where it makes sense (S3, elastic CI/CD with EC2) should still be saving some companies 6+ figures a month.

I agree with this. I cannot find talented and senior folks who fill the niche of my team (deep understanding of Linux systems, containers, and operating distributed systems). There seem to be a lot of SWEs in the world and very few SREs, let alone vanilla systems administrators for hire who are really good.

I think as an industry everyone is pushed towards software engineering and the large clouds have vacuumed up everyone worth their weight for operations. We make it happen but it’s so stressful because our team and workload balance is so far out of whack.

Nomad 1.0 is the bomb. I've ran Nomad since 0.7 and it was usable but pretty rough in those days. 1.0 is such a good, smooth thing. Super awesome even if you don't want to use Docker at all, you can just execute random stuff through exec/raw_exec, or straight Java. Heck, run it in a BSD homelab and use one of the jailshell executors.

It's not Kubernetes but it doesn't try to be at all.