Mitch Wyle's Web Log

I frequently rail against the all-too common anti-pattern of "Hero Worship Culture" in DevOps .  Heroes don't scale.  Hero wor...

(Horizontal Pod Autoscaling) The EU version of KubeCon was last week; some good conference read-outs and summaries are starting to emerge. ...

Despite the cold war, nuclear war setting, this book, written in 1985, holds up surprisingly well.  There are very few cringeworthy 1980...

Shipping pressure and throw-away "proof of concept" demonstrations very frequently lead to spectacular failures. My buddy recently...

After making the mistake of reading Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse Inside the Collapse of Venezuela , I doubled down ...

Personally, I never got much out of those "word clouds" when they were popular 15 years ago.  And I have no understanding of ...

Schlomi Noach , a high-profile MySQL tools & concepts guru has abstracted and summarized useful principles for assuring safe changes to ...

This book was very disappointing.  The magic system became much too arbitrary, the characters were poorly portrayed, the story was badly mot...

One of my relatives said she found this book interesting and recommended it to me so I had it in my backlog.  It is indeed fascinating. The ...

The author did a fantastic job of "world building" a bizarre far-flung future setting as the last remnants of humanity struggle to...