willejs

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by willejs 1mo ago
I think you can apply this too strictly. this is really about having informed technical and business conversations and making tradeoffs. It encourages you to innovate, there are tokens, but to be careful. Sometimes its fine to do something
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by willejs 1mo ago
This is one of my favourite blogposts and then presentations https://boringtechnology.club/ ... Back when it first came out, everyone was rushing to build microservices and shun practiced technologies, systems and software a
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by willejs 2mo ago
Looks like it has a few shellcheck issues, and no set -euo pipefail? ;)
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by willejs 1y ago
Neither do i, i drop it often, throw it about and its fine. Everyone goes mad and is surprised, but whats the point if buying a nice phone then covering it in a case.
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by willejs 1y ago
Do people not start asking questions like, over what medium? Is there direct ip connectivity or nat/a firewall in between? How longs the link? How big is the file? I would try and set some parameters if people are not or are struggling
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by willejs 1y ago
This is a great read, but unfortunately does not surprise me really, it was bound to happen given how people blindly add apps with wide permissions and githubs permissions model. It amazes me how many people will install github apps that ha
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by willejs 1y ago
Hugops to the people working on this for the last 31+ hours. Running incidents of this significance is hard, draining and requires a lot of effort, this going on for so long must be very difficult for all involved.
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by willejs 1y ago
Running software in an airgapped environment is difficult, but the hardest thing is the install, packaging and shipping updates. I have used https://zarf.dev/ to do this for a government client, and it was an amazing experi
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by willejs 1y ago
If you carry on reading, its quite obvious they misconfigured a service and routed production traffic to that instead of the correct service, and the system used to do that was built in 2018 and is considered legacy (probably because you ca
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by willejs 1y ago
Yeah, the secret sauce of the dd libs was/is addictive for sure! I think its perhaps better now you can just use oTel for custom traces and oTel contrib libs for auto instrumentation and send that to the dd agent? I have not yet tried
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by willejs 1y ago
I have run ELK, Grafana + Prom, Grafana + Thanos/Coretex, New relic and all of the more traditional products for monitoring/observability. More recently in the last few years, I have been running full observability stacks via eith
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by willejs 1y ago
Can this keep popping up, interrupt you, and have the most annoying voice ever added please?
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by willejs 2y ago
One thing that always surprises me, is that people havn't made more of a fuss about docker for mac. By default on install it shares the whole hard disk (unless thats changed), meaning without sudo you can get privileged access to the w
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by willejs 3y ago
The kubernetes provider, and kubectl works, but its not the nicest way of making changes. Its slow, quite clunky, and its not particularly intuitive. If your just getting started, and you know terraform its ok though. Its useful to bootstra
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by willejs 3y ago
Rotating out nodes during an upgrade is slow and potentially disruptive, however your systems should be built to handle this, and this is a good way of forcing it.
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by willejs 3y ago
Deploy both and see which patterns you prefer, and what fits into your organisation better. I have used both, but find Argo can be unnecessarily complex, and focuses solely as git as a source of truth for your k8s resources. The image updat
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by willejs 3y ago
It is mainly per host $15 or $23 PCM with the first 5-10 containers free then $0.002 per hour (~$1.5 PCM) per container. The insight and stats you get are quite granular and valuable however. For large scale deployments you can ignore cert
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by willejs 3y ago
Datadog is a pretty amazing product, and if you are careful and use it in the right way, it is very powerful, and cheaper than rolling your own LGTM Grafana stack (or similar). If you are not careful, or at a decent scale, you can easily sp
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by willejs 3y ago
It's free to watch down the boozer mate.
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by willejs 3y ago
I used to get my github status updates in slack via an RSS feed, and just searched for the feed again, but its gone? Is there an alternative for this?
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by willejs 4y ago
+1 this would be good. Some sort of method to import a CV would make the platform instantly valuable. I like it, i just need to be pulled in!
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by willejs 4y ago
Pricenomics (great book too) did an article in 2014 worth a read and seemingly there is a previous HN thread too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086288
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by willejs 4y ago
Expensify are doing this to a certain extent and have written about it before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23291779 There have been a lot discussions about this on HN over the years too.
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by willejs 4y ago
There is a great story about an old man who lived in Hackney, East London who dug a series of tunnels under his house and surrounding houses. He was finally found out when other peoples houses started subsiding. https://www.mylon
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by willejs 5y ago
You can also put authentication in front of cloudflare argo tunnels, so you can securely expose internally hosted applications to the internet. A zero trust or BeyondCorp model is usally way easier than VPNs etc. It is a really nice alterna
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by willejs 5y ago
I can't agree with this more. Vegetarian ones taste pretty much the same as cheap meat ones. In the UK there used to be Linda McCartney frankfurters, Holland and Barret now sell their own brand ones which are seemingly the same. If yo
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by willejs 5y ago
Theres a high scalability post from years ago that has a bit more information. http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-...
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by willejs 5y ago
That is a good point...
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by willejs 5y ago
I guarantee, as usual someone posts something along the lines of "This is why you should self-host <insert github alternative here>." Followed by comments like "Yeah, if you have time to maintain it"
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by willejs 5y ago
This is really great advice. Chef was doing this years ago with test kitchen and inspec (and serverspec). Most community cookbooks came with extensive test suites, and in turn made it easy to encourage people to write tests for cookbooks in

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