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cristobal23on Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem

sysadmin here; can confirm.

cristobal23on Ask HN: Tangible drawbacks of per-developer Git branches

i am new to the per-developer branching model. for those that practice this; my question is, why don’t developers just fork the repo?

cristobal23on Ask HN: Where do you host flask web app?

Heroku

cristobal23on Ask HN: Do you know a less distracting Slack alternative?

Once I figured out how to mute @here and @channel, I regained sanity.

cristobal23on Ask HN: What programming langauge(s) would you consider being “fun?”

To me, python feels more like writing poetry than writing code.

cristobal23on Ask HN: Ansible vs. Terraform

Use both. If it talks ssh, Ansible. If it talks http, Terraform. I use Ansible to define what goes into Packer images. I use Terraform to deploy those images. Then I use Ansible again to flip flags or run migrations.

cristobal23on Ask HN: What advantages do VMs have over containers?

You can use dnsmasq as your host resolver.

cristobal23on Alpine Linux 3.7.0 Released

I used Alpine as the guest OS in VirtualBox VMs. It was useful when I was learning about Docker. It helped me compare containers to virtual machines.

cristobal23on GitHub and Source Code

Are you using Sentry?

cristobal23on Docker Containers Go GA on Heroku

Don't folks use syntax highlighting on filenames that have the suffix Dockerfile?

cristobal23on CloudFormation vs. Terraform

You can use depends_on to wait for a resource in terraform. In the last year there has been at least one occasion in which a new AWS resource was supported in Terraform before it was supported in CloudFormation.

cristobal23on Quart: a Python asyncio web microframework with the same API as Flask

Very interesting! Quart reminds me of Klein, https://klein.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

cristobal23on Ask HN: When should the company ever consider changing programming languages?

From Python to Go and Back Again https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402307

cristobal23on Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis

http://krondo.com/in-which-we-begin-at-the-beginning/

cristobal23on Ask HN: What GUI tool do you use for PostgreSQL administration?

postico, but its for mac

cristobal23on Bill would allow Connecticut police to put weapons on drones

In political science, we refer to this notion as a monopoly on the means of coercion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

cristobal23on Which automation tools/scripts do you use to save time and feel like a boss?

Ansible is specifically geared for that boss like feel.

cristobal23on Ask HN: How can a rural small business get a custom PCB made?

I get my small batch artisanal American made PCB from oshpark.com

cristobal23on Ask HN: Looking for JIRA alternative

Trello or Wekan

cristobal23on [dead]

Machine learning is a set of constructs for pattern recognition. AI is a sci-fi term which philosophically is a non sequitur.

cristobal23on Consul.io – Service discovery and configuration made easy

I enjoyed Berkeley's CS162 because its from the perspective of an operating system. http://bit.ly/11rTdEw