cparedes

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by cparedes 9y ago
Thanks BTW for understanding - that's my intention here, which is to call out bad companies for doing egregious sorts of things (along with me being pretty frustrated in general, which could've been in poor form but whatever)
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by cparedes 9y ago
Forgot to mention: I don't expect anything positive to come out of it. I just want it to be a fair warning to anyone who would think about interviewing with them.
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by cparedes 9y ago
There was never an interview where you meet with Canonical execs. There was an interview panel where I met with higher ups and whatnot, but not at the executive level. That was a completely, 100% hidden step in the process depending on wher
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by cparedes 9y ago
Yeah - I'm still looking for that job fit. Takes a while sometimes.
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by cparedes 9y ago
They never asked for references.
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by cparedes 9y ago
"Tool" here. I don't blame them for not having a paycheck, I blame them for handling this incredibly terribly. If I had known there was even an exec-level review of my application, I would've acted otherwise. I don'
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by cparedes 12y ago
Er, sure it does: * No web UI. This may be a blocker for business folks who want to update a blog. This is a blocker for folks who are using devices like iPad's to update blogs (which is a huge reason why I moved away from things like
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by cparedes 12y ago
IMO, Amazon gets 'DevOps' right. It's mostly just called 'ownership' over in Amazon. (source: I used to work in Amazon as a systems engineer) You still have specializations - SDE's, systems engineers, DBA'
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by cparedes 13y ago
Security is about mitigating risk, not about eliminating it. Keep up with CVE's, don't provide a wide attack area (so lock down interfaces to your machine and don't expose much to the world), and keep blast radii as small as possible (so ev
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by cparedes 14y ago
FWIW, if you do need ELB support right away (and keep in mind that you'll have to look at it from each server's point of view), you can probably use https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/aws (and use the elastic_lb resource), and hook it i
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by cparedes 14y ago
Sort of, but not exactly. It's not API compatible with Chef server, and I believe you don't get the nice search syntax for grabbing node information across your fleet that match some kind of criteria. But you still do get info on your other
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by cparedes 14y ago
You can use TCP/UDP/GRE for your traceroute packets with the -P switch: traceroute -P udp <hostname> This is super useful if you're probing a network that's hostile to ICMP packets - it's a lot more reliable than ICMP in many scenar
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by cparedes 14y ago
The reasons that other folks have mentioned (static files, nginx is built for lots of HTTP requests), as well as basic load balancing between several 'worker processes'. Sometimes you'll want to have several app server processes running wit
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by cparedes 14y ago
You can replace 'ssh loop' with parallel SSH connections, or pubsub, or...
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by cparedes 14y ago
Kick off Puppet/Chef runs? It's not too hard to automate these tasks, either (or even put a fancy interface around it, though of course this takes a bit more time.) It's also a bit insulting when you say that we 'in fact [do it] by hand', b
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by cparedes 14y ago
I can't know for sure, but it's at least corroborated with quite a bit of research: https://www.google.com/search?q=usenix+configuration+managem... I'm a fan of both of those systems, because it's easier to express system state with them
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by cparedes 14y ago
Author here. NT? (edit: you mean non-technical? I'm definitely not non-technical - I work as a systems engineer by trade.) And, yes, you don't need to use Chef or Puppet to solve the software deployment problem. You use it to ensure system
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by cparedes 14y ago
Author here. They do, though for a certain set of problems, you can get away with using things like Chef for coordinating lots of information between a lot of machines. My point, however, was that tools should never be the focal point of
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by cparedes 14y ago
You can use LDAP logins and passwords with SSH by using pam_ldap - but since you only allow SSH keys, it'll be a non-starter for many orgs to use your product. Best of luck - I'll keep an eye on it for sure.
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by cparedes 14y ago
So, tell me - what would this tool offer over, say, RunDeck or mcollective? Why only use SSH keys? (What if I'm using LDAP across all of my machines?) I'm not trying to knock your product - I really do hope you get Kickstarter funding! But
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by cparedes 15y ago
I think the problem isn't inherently the class content (in 'soft' subjects), but how decent the professor is in letting students get by with weak arguments in their papers. I think there's some correlation between how much they actually ca
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by cparedes 15y ago
Maybe they'll come in, then leave as soon as they're all settled in.
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by cparedes 15y ago
Seattle is crazy awesome for startups, but man, SLU has changed a lot since I last worked there a couple of years ago at a research lab (and I think it changed for the worse - way more expensive food, not much variety.) Pioneer Square is ve
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by cparedes 15y ago
Obvious troll is obvious. As I've said in the past, the consensus is simply "use a CM system," especially if you have to maintain these machines for a while (or if you have 50+ machines to take care of.) It's much better than dealing wit
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by cparedes 15y ago
Over at Seattle Biomed, we keep everything in the same branch (for now) - all of our nodes are defined in nodes.pp, and we have modules that install software/configuration files as needed. We include modules in the node definition that sho
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by cparedes 15y ago
Chef has decent documentation, but the last time I checked, it was a lot less polished than Puppet's documentation. With that said, the folks in #chef on irc.freenode.net are quite helpful, and it's possible that the documentation has impr
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by cparedes 15y ago
I see where you're coming from - however, the great thing about CM tools is that they abstract a lot of the weird differences between UNIX's and Linux distributions. Defining a user in Puppet or Chef will create that user the same way, w
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by cparedes 15y ago
The consensus on CM tool choice is simply, "pick one that's comfortable for you and your team," and, "it doesn't matter which one you use, just be sure you're using configuration management." It's definitely better than dealing with shell
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by cparedes 15y ago
I don't see anything wrong with specialization at all - it's just that college usually appeals to this notion of "well-roundedness", and even if it doesn't, I'd say that it might be great to try taking that weird underwater basket weaving c
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by cparedes 15y ago
I ask myself that a lot, too. I usually refer to David Foster Wallace's graduation speech ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html ) given to the class of 2005 at Kenyon College.

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