lmickh

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by lmickh 4y ago
Interesting test, but I find some of these benchmarks kind of miss the point. Even Grafana's. The appeal of Thanos/Cortex/Mimir is the long term object storage. The value isn't that it is simpler or cheaper to run. The
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by lmickh 4y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say there wasn't much purpose for the ground troops in the context of the goal of eliminating Iraqi military capabilities. It involved some of the largest tank battles in US history such as the Battle of
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by lmickh 5y ago
Casualties in warfare is typically used to measure the lose of the fighting force. Not only does it include killed and wounded, it typically also includes troops lost to disease and starvation. It is pretty common for people to misinterpre
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by lmickh 5y ago
There is also the common practice of not including discounts in revenue. There is a reason companies talk about revenue instead of net sales or net income. I've never seen AWS give discounts comparable to what Azure provided. Especia
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by lmickh 5y ago
Hundreds of developers were moved from Azure teams to the GitHub org about a year or so ago. Several new features they have added are effectively rebranding/built on top of other Azure projects. GitHub is hardly at arms length from MS
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by lmickh 5y ago
If you think the game was a disappointment, doesn't that imply you already gave them the money? It is not a service. If you bought it 5 years ago, you don't have to pay more to play it.
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by lmickh 6y ago
CNN and 24hr cable news has not been good for journalism. Opinion pundits responding to events before the facts can even be collected along with daily shows interweaving narratives pre-dates Fox News. Fox News played their game more blata
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by lmickh 6y ago
Burke Libbey has a few talks that are available on YouTube including a presentation at NixCon about the work he is doing at Shopify. I would highly recommend checking them out if you are interested in Nix.
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by lmickh 6y ago
You use the language to define the configuration, packages, and etc. NixOS isn't so much an OS configured by a package manager as much as it is an OS + package manager that you can configure with the Nix language. Then there is also l
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by lmickh 6y ago
It is pretty easy to be confused. Especially since it is also a language yet all the other replies at the time have writing have failed to mention that. While I like the project as a whole, their naming is horrible. Just wait until you get
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by lmickh 9y ago
I like how it pretty much just glosses over decades of familiarity. If there is anything the last 20 years prove, it is that the majority of developers will stick with what they know over what might be a good fit for the job. It goes even
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by lmickh 9y ago
IIRC, it was on the order of $100k+ per cluster for the Premium offering. Has been several months so I would suggest contacting them to see what it currently is. For some projects I've been on, that wouldn't be a big deal. For s
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by lmickh 9y ago
Maybe that was poor wording on my part, but ease of use in combination with the features are important. Take the database secret backend for example. Getting that same feature out of other simple systems, would be a lot of work. Audit tra
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by lmickh 9y ago
Yes. I use Terraform to pull secrets from Vault and insert them into Kubernetes secrets so that there is a single source of truth.
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by lmickh 9y ago
You can use json as well, but it is pretty unfriendly for the human users and you lose some of the interpolation.
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by lmickh 9y ago
Can't recommend Vault enough. By far the easiest and most capable solution to work with. The only downside I can point out is that the multi-cluster/region HA requires expensive enterprise licensing, but that is something most u
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by lmickh 9y ago
The Hashicorp stack is pretty widely used in part for its open source cross-platform capabilities. This seems more along the lines of "Hey! You already use Terraform/Vault for provider X. Now GCP works even better with the tools
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by lmickh 9y ago
Curious if any provider has given you similar contract terms?
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by lmickh 9y ago
According to the interview with the author linked in comments above, he published it internally a month ago. The fact that it only got linked and went viral weeks later would indicate it was originally limited.
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by lmickh 9y ago
Yes, it appears to affirm that law enforcement is not the best bang for the buck. There has been plenty of work indicating that like you mentioned. That wasn't a "bold risk". That is separate from saying that changing the le
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by lmickh 9y ago
Find it misleading that almost all of the recent articles on this subject talk about decriminalization as the cause for the drop in drug related health issues. They shifted a significant chunk of money to health services. If it proves anyt
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by lmickh 9y ago
I think the DevOps is a culture statement is just as misleading to folks as the DevOps is automation/tooling. If you look at the early conversations, it was a discussion that outlined a management paradigm that borrowed heavily from Th
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by lmickh 9y ago
Would argue that you have a tools/service team. The fact that you failed to mention changing what devs and sysadmins consider when "focusing 100%" on their role indicates that what you are talking about isn't the concep
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by lmickh 9y ago
Thanks. Apparently I completely missed that in the FAQ.
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by lmickh 9y ago
So is a "compute unit" the same as the "Azure Compute Units" that are used to measure VMs? 800 ACU roughly comes out to 4 cores. At $0.78/hr, that is hardly comparable to the RDS offerings. Didn't see an ind
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by lmickh 9y ago
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country can do for them. Why worry about precedence? When I'm in power I'll just change the rules!
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by lmickh 9y ago
This is a common mistake when reading about military history. Casualties are not deaths. It is the lose of fighters for a wide range of reasons (death, injury, illness, catpure, and etc). Roughly 650k people were killed during the America
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by lmickh 9y ago
Would add that MS is the new IBM when it comes to the old saying "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". Cost and performance simply don't matter in many folks business decision methods when something is compared to a MS prod
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by lmickh 10y ago
I see. You are just commenting on the mainframe portion of the prior response. The efforts to revamp .Net CLR to run on non-Windows systems is of little value to shops that are not already running .Net CLR. At best it is removing a negati
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by lmickh 10y ago
Curious to hear about these .Net Enterprise devs that are not using RDBMS. It is still very much the status quo even with services like Azure DocumentDB around. When you get a list of solid points about why Java won't be displaced and

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