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Sunday, January 31, 2021

Cobra Outlaw by Timothy Zahn

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The story trundles along with more parallel plots, intrigues, and too many people from the same family, 3.5 Stars.

Four Words: Reliability, reliability, reliability, reliability

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Observability and learning are emerging as the big themes in site reliability engineering (SRE) at the moment.  The tools vendor FireHydrant...

How did things go right?

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I somehow missed Ryan Kitchens' awesome talk at SRE-Con . Ryan's talks are always spectacular and controversial. But this one is esp...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

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It is a little hard to get past the testosterone haze and combat metaphors but the concepts are  applicable to leadership in very many conte...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

konveyor & peloris

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Over the weekend I was referred to the konveyor.io  Kubernetes evangelism society and movement, and discovered those folks develop a very in...

Ready Player 2 by Ernest Cline

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It's a fun sequel with great 1980's and 1990's pop culture video games and movie references, geeky D&D players, and more of ...

web page load performance measurements with Lighthouse

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I stumbled across this blog entry about improving web page performance in which the authors write about the " Lighthouse " calcul...

ARM for server workloads?

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The folks over at Percona discover some interesting results using Amazon's new ARM processor offerings.  Intel, of course, has another g...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Civil, respectful, political discourse

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I normally try very hard not to get distracted by national politics.  This video is an exception worth sharing.  One one side of our nation...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

No Rules Rules by Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings

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Although this book is not applicable to my "day job" because I do not work at a company that is in any way like Netflix, it was st...
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