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rhomlon System Intiative is generally available

It is exciting to see progress in this space and new ways of thinking infrastructure, kudos to everyone!!

My only hope is that we learned and we don't end up managing things like GH repositories or Pagerduty schedules.

rhomlon Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?

I was so sad when increment sent its last issue in November

rhomlon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

Cloudflare | Singapore, Australia | Full-Time, Remote-OK | https://cloudflare.com

Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet.

Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks. Today, businesses, non-profits, bloggers, and anyone with an Internet presence boast faster, more secure websites and apps thanks to Cloudflare.

Below are a few openings we have in our team in APAC:

- SRE - Edge - https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/3434756?gh_jid=...

- Software Engineer - Edge - https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/3587017?gh_jid=...

- Systems Engineer - Infrastructure - https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/3512509?gh_jid=...

- SRE Core - https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/3578905?gh_jid=...

These positions while marked as Sydney, they are openings for anywhere in Australia or Singapore.

Tech Stack: Go, Python, C, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Airflow

Here are some of the projects where our teams have been involved with:

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo/

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-hashicorp-nomad/

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/automating-data-center-expansion...

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/orpheus/

Our founders also wrote a blog about the Future of work at Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-future-of-work-at-cloudflare

We have more opportunities available in many locations (Austin, SF, Lisbon, London) check them out https://www.cloudflare.com/careers!

rhomlon Githooks: auto-install client-side hooks inside the repos

I love this projects because they aim to enforce best practices. I particular like pre-commit.com. Fairly easy to set up and a large variety of plugins already.

rhomlon Cog: Bringing the power of the command line to chat

Congrats on this launch pretty exited to see its evolution

rhomlon Apple Acquires FoundationDB

Too bad not many people read this https://twitter.com/ibobrik/status/454205142662119424

rhomlon Scaling Redis at Twitter [video]

2cents about this:

1. If you are setting up Sentinel with puppet you can do audit of a file instead of modifying it on every run http://puppetlabs.com/blog/all-about-auditing-with-puppet this way you can install, configure and start sentinel and puppet will notice that the content changed. You can decide if you want to change the file or if you would like puppet to notice about it.

2. About sentinel, don't know how you are triggering the failover but we discovered a bug on versions prior to 2.8.12 on manual failovers, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/redis-db/rhommel/... so it was fixed in 2.8.12 and never seen redis taking more than a second.

rhomlon Migrating From AWS to FB

They mentioned AWS direct connect which helps to reduce latency.

rhomlon Migrating From AWS to FB

I think they just said this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYZ2GzYAw_Q

rhomlon No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean

We won't see IPV6 for the next 10 years or so.

rhomlon No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean

They need to know who is the real owner of each IP for tracing purposes.

rhomlon ElasticDump – Import and export tools for ElasticSearch

So whats the difference from this and the embedded backup restore tools on ES 1.0.1?

rhomlon Is Your Site HSTS Enabled?

Maybe the first step to avoid issues is to enforce SSL which is easy on any webserver before going HSTS.

rhomlon Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

Agree on this, and also most of the production apps don't require the same modules.

rhomlon Show HN: Go for Glory – take the apibunny challenge

Too addictive.

rhomlon Dead Man's Snitch – Monitoring for Scheduled Tasks

So, in case you didn't notice. This can be a way to let others take care of notifying you when cron's fail so you can focus on more productive tasks.

rhomlon Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

Yet another project that will end up at the bottom of the lake like all other digital identity claiming sites.

rhomlon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

3scale.net in Barcelona, Spain is looking for Full time Operations Engineers.

As an Operations engineer at 3scale you will be working to improve the reliability and performance of our services, as well as you will have the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with our engineering team in order to build the next generation products for APIs focusing on automation, availability and performance.

Responsibilities: Work with the engineering team to build, and maintain 3scale’s highly available infrastructure between AWS, and other cloud providers in USA and Europe. Write Sensu plugins, handlers, and extensions to monitor all of our stack. Write Puppet modules to automate our infrastructure. Troubleshoot issues across our stack hardware/software and application. Work with our ELK (Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana) cluster. Design resilient and scalable architectures. Willingness to learn and tech.

Qualifications: 1+ years of experience with AWS. (3+ for senior.) 2+ years industry experience on system administration (Linux). (5+ for senior.) 1+ years of experience on config management systems (Cfengine, Chef, Puppet, Sal Stack, Ansible). Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, web application security. Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently. Excellent communication skills. Practical knowledge of shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Ruby, Python).

Bonus points: Virtualization and containerization (Lxc, Docker, lmctfy, Xen, Vmware, Openstack) NoSQL (Redis, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB). Experience with existing open source project. Skills in ping pong, quake or guitar hero.

Contact: rhommel@3scale.net