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throwaway122379··on Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'
There used to be a time when it was cheaper to pay people to perform calculations by hand than to build computers to do so ...
throwaway122379··on A developer goes to a DevOps conference
Interesting never heard of Pulumi, thanks

You might be interested in https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

It has a Kotlin strongly typed DSL for pipelines, i absolutely despite Jenkins and Groovy, so many bugs causing huge issues due to weak typing and lack of testing :(

throwaway122379··on A developer goes to a DevOps conference
Great post! You touched on something there thats been bugging me last few years, testing is non existent in devops/sre world so developers who hate testing and do not understand it is core to good engineering seem to gravitate towards devops roles as they can hack their way thru their day all while creating tons of tech debt.
throwaway122379··on A developer goes to a DevOps conference
My job is 50% dev 50% devops/sre i would say.

One thing I noticed about whole SRE/devops scene lately is that there seems to be no grasp of the KISS principle, there are people building elaborate glass houses on top of k8s (tho k8s+pipelines is very useful its easy to get carried away)

another observation is that the people who are not good programmers but are good at appearing to get stuff done (but who create tons of tech debt) seem to fall naturally into SRE roles, as there is no testing culture in pipeline driven development

SRE currently is like the wild west, it be many years before it starts to resemble engineering

throwaway122379··on Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
In Ireland starting is about EUR 40K, Senior would be about 55-60K, about 10-20K more in Dublin but you would spend that on rent alone

side note: above 33K tax is 50%+ on each and every euro, about 20% below

How does one relocate to the US, sigh

throwaway122379··on Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
Care to provide an example?
throwaway122379··on Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
The 2 year window and article 50 was an addition from UK ironically

Also they did not have to lodge the article 50 letter when they did, they could have spent years preparing and figuring out what it is exactly they want to accomplish.

Finally the EU gave an extension twice now for them to figure out what they want, instead of doing that UK govt doubled down on stupid.

throwaway122379··on Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
1st of November, Boris (or whoever is PM then) asks EU for trade deal. They respond with, "great, so about:

1. Irish border and Good Friday agreement

2. EU Citizens rights in UK

3. Payment of billions to which previous UK governments signed up to as EU member

4. How will you ensure low quality food from US does not enter EU"

throwaway122379··on Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
What? EU is loose federation of 28 EQUAL members

I think the UK has a problem with being an equal and has not got over its loss of empire, just look at how they treat their own constituent countries such as Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

throwaway122379··on Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
Please elaborate as to exactly why that is a positive?