carlosf

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by carlosf 5y ago
Here is what I'm doing: - All work is meaningless, so I started seeking the ones that pay the most (banks, hedges, FAANGs). - By making a lot of money early, I plan to soft retire in five years (with 35) - I will take a loooong vacatio
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by carlosf 5y ago
I use Nomad a lot in my company and I really like it. Our team tried to migrate to AWS ECS a few times and found it much harder to abstract stuff from devs / create self-service patterns. That said it's not a walk in the park. You
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by carlosf 5y ago
Well written!
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by carlosf 5y ago
When I was part of academia I was under the impression we were aiming for publishing papers, which is why I left.
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by carlosf 5y ago
In my first job as a sysadmin I tried my best to support business and two things happened: 1 - My paycheck did not increase when business was successful. 2 - When something broke as a result of assuming risks to deliver stuff, I was blamed,
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by carlosf 5y ago
Installing python does not require admin permissions in Windows, just choose $HOME/... as install path. It also does not require admin permissions in Linux, although most distros do not offer a happy path for that.
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by carlosf 5y ago
+1 My company's internal apps use a mix of VPNs and IP fenced load balancers. We are migrating to app proxy. No inbound connections + access based on Azure AD identity with conditional access (restrict apps to Intune enabled corporate
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by carlosf 5y ago
+1 During the past three years I went from being my workplace's Windows hater to ditching Linux in my personal machines in favor of Win + WSL2.
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by carlosf 5y ago
I have the opposite use case. Most of the stuff my company is running is made up of data pipelines and machine learning pipelines. So we have a lot of infrequent jobs that don't really care about latency.
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by carlosf 5y ago
Oof Makes sense! I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature. If App Runner ends up supporting private deployments then we can have a true Cloud Run competitor.
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by carlosf 5y ago
Really cool post! From the architecture, it's not really clear to me why Lambdas have the 15 min limitation. It seems to me AWS could use the same infrastructure to make a product that competes with Google Cloud Run. Maybe it's a
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by carlosf 5y ago
> The pricing model is admittedly a bit complex, but from what I've been told it is a fairly common pricing model in this industry Yes, but that's one of the reasons Public Clouds are thriving.
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by carlosf 5y ago
Not sure if that's the case with others, but I have a really hard time connecting CT with actual applications. My classes were full of complex maths and toy examples, but very weak in actual engineering and heuristics.
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by carlosf 5y ago
I'm a paying customer and I agree. Meanwhile many core features are still unpolished e.g.: running your own runners sucks and you can't test CI/CD locally.
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by carlosf 5y ago
Yeah models assume future data can be predicted with past data, which of course is not always true in real life due fundamental limitations of statistics, such as very fat tailed distributions in stock markets. Competent data scientists mus
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by carlosf 5y ago
I generally dislike this tone too. If they really felt sorry for this particular customer, they would be actually solving their issues, not answering with automatic messages.
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by carlosf 5y ago
I generally don't care about certifications, but was convinced to try the AWS Solutions Architect path. While I'm still studying, I've found many knowledge gaps due learning things through experience. I guess studying somethi
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by carlosf 5y ago
Wait, what? People can do that? That's the coolest thing since a friend showed me he could move his ears.
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by carlosf 5y ago
Yeah that's my issue as well. I generally forget anything I don't use often and git is full of important stuff that you need infrequently.
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by carlosf 5y ago
"The tendency to spend valuable hours practicing perfectionism resulted in weeks of timeline delays and loss of design integration and verification time." Students in a nutshell.
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by carlosf 5y ago
Which is why basic stuff like MFA and MDM (block sign-ins coming from non compliant devices) works wonders against ransomware attacks.
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by carlosf 5y ago
ISPs do not know as much as Google/FB thanks to SSL, but they know a lot more than you'd think by analyzing connection metadata. Also many ISPs are also carriers, which makes things worse. Source: worked for telecos, have seen a l
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by carlosf 5y ago
At this point one might consider using a real language and common software practices for type checking, extending, modularization, testing, etc... Instead of building an ecosystem just to keep Infrastructure as Yaml sane. My experience with
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by carlosf 5y ago
Also true for allowing email addresses with "+".
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by carlosf 5y ago
I guess in an ideal world where everything in your org is behind MFA, app authentication and protected from denial of service, then solutions like tailscale would not be needed. But my personal experience is that most software is completely
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by carlosf 5y ago
DinD has many gotchas and I dislike it in general.
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by carlosf 5y ago
Docker is much faster than Vagrant and allows reproducible envs. I've been using VS Code + its Remote-Containers extension + docker-compose (when needed) and it's absolutely brilliant compared to other options. I will use Vagrant
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by carlosf 5y ago
My wet dream: MS buys Canonical and Windows + Ubuntu become one. As a Devops / sysadmin the biggest value MS brings to the table is Azure AD/MDM/PIM. I feel like we really have stepped up our security game with those tools. I
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by carlosf 5y ago
I used to have a car before moving closer to a metro area and going full Uber. It was a cheap Renault. Malfunctioned twice in ten years. Repair was trivial both times. Sometimes I think about having a car again, but the sort of stuff you de
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by carlosf 5y ago
Cool post, I've seen shit like that first hand in a telco. BTW this sort of complain always makes me wonder why companies are so bad at managing incentives. Good ideas I've seen in the hedge fund industry: - If your employee gives

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