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Thursday, March 31, 2022
Take Back the Sky by Greg Bear
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This conclusion to the trilogy is not bad but not great. None of the main characters, even those with super-powers, has any agency or power...
Firewalkers by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The author writes well and is very imaginative. I enjoyed all of the other books I have read by him. This one is not good. I did not like ...
Monday, March 21, 2022
Flux vs Argo && Flux with Helm
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Here is a short, useful comparison of the strengths, weaknesses, and capabilities of the Flux family of gitops tools versus the Argo family...
kubernetes configuration drift minimization oppa gitops style
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Over the past four decades, large-scale infrastructure consistency management people have continually re-discovered the inevitable entropy o...
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
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Here is an interesting take on detecting issues in the monitoring service and alerting the on-call person. Miedwar explained that their ori...
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Camille Fournier explique 20 mesures d'un supérieure développeur de logiciels
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Another great blog post from my buddy about measurements for differentiating characteristics of a senior software engineer . The title of...
another take on client retry logic
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When clients have no visibility into global state (all clients' latencies & failure rates), there are simple heuristics we use for r...
Should we meet?
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I saw t his 20-second decision making tool (and flowchart) on my friend's blog and had to share. Do we need a meeting?
Friday, March 18, 2022
Killing Titan by Greg Bear
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The story line is starting to get more "way out there" with bigger mysteries and more-advanced (magical) awe-and-wonder technology...
Thursday, March 17, 2022
23 Years on Fire by Joel Shepherd
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The series is starting to grow on me now that it's not all political and mysterious, advanced space aliens have appeared. The close comb...
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