Rick

I wonder how the latency is on this for small file put/get operations. I POC'd s3fuse for hosting some LAMP apps at scale a few years ago with mixed results.

Get it.

I used to buy these for my lunch when I worked at an airport. We had one of those laser thermometers - so I’d laze it until it got down to 112° before I put it in my mouth. Many mouth blisters were had to figure out the right temp 😂.

Absolutely precious.

Cover of book titles Sled Driver, by former SR-71 pilot Brian Schul.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1 - Sled Driver

#BookSky
#20BookChallenge

Canada’s only real viable hyperscaler is OVH, but hilariously it doesn’t belong to Canada - it is a French company. That said: OVH is a solid offering and their commitment to sustainable datacenter design (like their BHS facility) is something the rest of the industry should look into implementing.

Only Microsoft could make Git more frustrating to work with.

Honestly, and even with N number of services, a book or PDF with “here are the most typical use cases and how to stand them up quickly” would be super valuable.

But, sadly, a cat ceases to function properly when its number of remaining lives is even and less than 5.

GONK!

His one liners are great. I, however hail to the cult of GONK!

Hell yeah, @fireship.bsky.social is finally here! Thanks for making the “___ in 100 seconds” videos! #python #javascript #DevOps

Ah yes, tools that intend to make our lives easier, but instead are needlessly complicated.

I’m gauging interest in a #regexpolympics type event. The format would be to do some digging in massive datasets and have people compete to find stuff in the data. It would be a hybrid event, somewhere like NY, LAS, Vancouver, Montreal or Toronto. Anyone want to participate or sponsor this? #python

Facebook is a trash heap already, I can’t picture it being any worse.

There’s another book like this called Sled Driver by Brian Schul. He was an SR-71 pilot. The pictures are absolutely amazing and the book is a fun read - it can be found for between $400 and like $10K. He died last year or the year before - so that number is probably higher now.

You can push container images to Lambda: docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/lates...
For the first year you get 500mb for free in the elastic container registry. If you don’t mind moving over to Google Cloud - CloudRun will do what you want mostly free. I think CloudBuild is cheap.

How I came to build a cheap server cluster for VDI In 2019, our department of electrical engineering noticed that we spend too much of our budget on maintaining the VDI for labs. At that…

To all my sisters and brothers in #sysadmin - if you’re at an org that uses VDI and are looking for something that won’t get broadcommed in the near future - check this out: medium.com/@mnl_584/how...
It uses #k8s and #ceph and #KubeVirt.

I wish Mariah Carey would have some crazy genre crossing phase, like if one day she woke up and was like “fuck it, we’re making a metal album!” then she goes on tour with Spitirbox to promote it. Imagine the intro to Dead Rose by Chelsea Grin, but MC belts it out instead. I’ll bet she can send it.

“ .. -- / .-- . .- .-. .. -. --. / .--. .- -. - ... “

Francis! She’s talking dirty to me!

Yeah - shit moves exponentially faster year over year. 2x faster than last year &&.

Excellent first choice! Single instance storage is important for workloads you might want to horizontally scale. Even just an NFS server would do the trick too!

I’m watching over a *massive* AWS fleet that run across like 100 accounts for a large org - among the accounts is a broadcast media stack which has web sockets absolutely everywhere. We require latency sensitive stuff like WS:// runs on compute instances or iron. AMA about devs deploying weird shit.

I really wish I could be there. Present responsibilities have me on the complete opposite side of the country. Hilariously I read Graviton like “Gravitron” - which is that fun UFO thing at the county fair where you stick to the wall.

So. What’s the first thing you’re going to deploy?

Every time I send a deployment up to a k8s cluster I think of how Google used to call it Borg - so I then imagine that I’m sending a Borg drone back to the collective with that unsolvable puzzle from Star Trek TNG with the intent of recursion pacifying the collective.

Networking is such a large discipline - and it is very different in Kubernetes because you need that weird middle layer so you can network *inside* the cluster depending on your setup. Drop me a follow and shoot me a DM, I’d love to help you answer some of your networking and k8s questions!

I mentor a bunch of youngsters who are all junior level devs and admins. The thing I drive home is how important networking is, but I’m pleased to inform you - it is never too late to learn! I was like 10-15 years into my career as a sysadmin before I was able to do advanced stuff like BGP.

This is the most important thing that junior admins and junior devs need to hear, right now. #cloudengineering

They have a home on whatever playlist I’m making. Truly timeless, and will be enjoyed for generations to come.