stackskipton

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by stackskipton 12d ago
As Ops person, massive doubt. I've been at companies that have gotten hacked twice now, neither my department though. Both times, security vulnerabilities that hackers got into were well known, the tickets were in the backlog and depri
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by stackskipton 19d ago
Ops here, I think if you NEED that convenience, sure, rock with MUSL BUT I also see a ton of devs crowing about using MUSL on my 128GB x86 Kubernetes hosts. I have plenty of Disk Space, you can ship glibc based container.
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by stackskipton 20d ago
Great Lakes area is probably well positioned.
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by stackskipton 20d ago
Last job, we did for various control/audit reasons BUT it was all IaC and tickets.
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by stackskipton 21d ago
>In particular I'm thinking of some studies of local economy in Miami when there have been bursts of immigration. That was study about Cuban immigrants into Miami, a city with large Cuban population and thus existing infrastructure
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by stackskipton 21d ago
What? Nuclear Power workers are exposed much less than flight attendants and everyone else gets more radiation from their occasional flight. Yes, disasters are worse but most other power options are killing people in non visible ways.
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by stackskipton 22d ago
This is incorrect, all benchmarks including those from Microsoft have proven 10%-30% performance increase under Linux. https://aka.ms/aspnet/benchmarks Here is Microsoft official ones, Linux beats out Windows in almost
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by stackskipton 22d ago
There is still plenty of Window Server using enterprises churning out .Net Framework code that must run on IIS. It's shrinking market for sure but it's still a market. If they are willing to spend money on Windows Server, 3k a yea
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by stackskipton 22d ago
Do they still maintain it as in, it gets bug fixes and security patches? Technically yes, bug fixes and security patches are still produced for Windows Server. I wouldn't call it a good level of effort but it exists. They are happy to
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by stackskipton 23d ago
Most American tech workers, myself included, have been asking for program to be reformed so it’s actually given to highly skilled workers and not used as method of outsourcing in the US. It’s not a new problem but Democrats and non Trump Re
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by stackskipton 24d ago
SRE here, why would you create your own node images for Kubernetes Nodes? Unless they deliver some weird kernel that would cause containers not to run, there is no reason not to take cloud provider image. If you need something extra on the
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by stackskipton 26d ago
I mean, all they have to say "We were hoping the RIGHT candidate applied that met all our criteria and they never did."
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by stackskipton 28d ago
US Government is starting to push hard so code first needs to support it.
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by stackskipton 28d ago
SRE here, Strong disagree with do not fail readiness and liveness checks on upstream dependencies failing. There are several reason to do so and unless you have extreme start up time, what's the problem with restarting? Maybe DNS has c
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by stackskipton 28d ago
I mean, with this custom thing, you have that question as well with downside is you cannot pick up the knowledge from off the street. I became the Kafka guy at my current company, it took me about a week of reading and every time I had furt
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by stackskipton 28d ago
As SRE dealing with this at current company, a benefit of using well known software like Kafka is a lot of problems you will run into have solutions/guidance already available vs you having to explore solutions which a lot of time end
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by stackskipton 28d ago
Partner and I are childfree but in talking with other parents about it, I've had 3 admit, if they knew now, they wouldn't have had kids or had less. My father was one of them.
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by stackskipton 29d ago
Companies do this because it's massive song and dance by everyone. Hospitals issue big bills to insurance companies knowing they will want a discount so there is plenty of wiggle room. Also, it's free marketing for insurance compa
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by stackskipton 29d ago
In that link, government/compulsory for the United States seems to indicate times when an insurance company covered it. Voluntary/Out of Pocket is when insurance company wasn't required to cover and did or person paid out of
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
SRE here, that's a ton of pods and sounds like it's language or architecture if you are serving up so few requests per pod. We have Kubernetes here too for Java monoliths and we have 8 Pods serving more than that. Since Java has c
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Yes, it’s compliance that forces the behavior. Another reason SOC2 is mostly worthless.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Pretty sure that's what a group in my company is working on now. Except, I won't be spinning in my chair, I'll be out of a job. At least until cost skyrockets and outages get much worse.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Google generally doesn't need you logged in unless you are doing heavy privacy cleaning. Even in that case, they see data they are getting to be worthwhile enough for their other lines of business.
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
It's all we got at this point. Even as SRE, I just got 2000-line Golang change to something I think should be 150. However, the boss is already bouncing around happy we are going to deliver something that's been in Jira backlog fo
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
I know someone working on a smaller open source who has same thing. They have considered just blocking all PRs outside known contributors because AI spam even on their tiny open source project is too much. At work, I've gotten into fig
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
"Nibbling at the edges" is all they can do since that was original proposed method. So they are appealing this particular nibbling at the edges but whole scale, break up Google was not in original remedy so authorities are kind of
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Strong disagree. These payments are clearly massive tent pole of maintaining the monopoly and I think it was right for competition authorities to appeal them. In fact, IMO, Metha ruling was way to favorable for Google. Basically like, well,
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Strong disagree. A lot of AI development still requires good engineers to keep tight leash on it so I'm seeing more bad developers create a feature until we need to iterate on said feature and we find AI did such a bad job that it beco
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
> Subcontracting is a thing. It's not a bad thing on its own. I wouldn't say subcontracting is a bad thing always. It depends on reason for subcontracting and in this case, I'd call it bad since subcontracting is clearly t
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by stackskipton 1mo ago
Race to bottom dynamic

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