AnthonyWnC

I wouldn't believe anything that any Western MSMs write about China; they are basically zero credibility given the amount of fake news that they put out. It also doesn't take much critical thinking to realize the narrative that they have been pushing to the general public.

In my last job I was a DevOps guy in a Data Eng. team and we used microservice (actually serverless) extensively to the point that none of our ETL relied on servers (they were all serverless; AWS lambda).

Now databases themselves are different stories, they are the persistence/data layer that microservices themselves use . But it's actually doable and I'd even say much easier to use microservices/serverless for ETL because it's easier to develop CI/CD and testing/deployment with non-stateful services. Of course, it does take certain level of engineering maturity and skillsets but I think the end results justify it.

Not sure about the current Turkish system but the precursor to Turkey; the Ottoman Empire was a Islamic caliphate so they probably didn't adopt the same laws as Western system but it'd be still pretty accurate to say that the Byzantine empire formed some basis of Western laws (at least as a lineage of the Roman empire). Also as you probably know, Istanbul used to be called Constantinople.

NYT is not exactly a reliable source of news in China, actually none of US MSM are.

I think chalk sucks as they are dirty, messy, dusty and probably not good for your health. I hope for the day they all disappeared and are replaced by digital whiteboard where you don't need to erase anything and can be collaborative with remote location in real time.

5 eyes, Prism, ATT fiber tapping, windows NSA key etc.. And how do you manage to conveniently forget about Snowden revelation?

Another hit piece by bbc; move along there is nothing to see.

Hard to take the article seriously given it's not even remotely objectively written. I guess it's another political org mouthpiece.

Fake news has been with us for a long time.. Along with various religions/churches and superstition/customs, humans had always believed in various level of fake things.

Even if the US sanctions did not primarily caused the crisis in Venezuela; their sanctions certain add more oil to the fire.

Ref. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/world/americas/venezuela-... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/sanctions-venezuela-i...

The overall trend of IT infrastructure goes from tradition DC -> IaaS -> PaaS -> FaaS. k8 sits at PaaS and the logically next step is FaaS/serverless.

In fact, today you can surely do purely FaaS without the need k8 at all by leveraging cloud provider managed services for any long-live type of workload. Of course, the tradeoffs will the usual suspects: flexibility, control, cost etc. There are still cases where you would want a cluster manager like k8 (at least for now).

It is hilarious and idiotic to see all these modern luddite think that somehow electronic X (in this case, voting) won't work or can't be secure.

And yes, paper voting has to be the best solution ever. /s

They are just stealing the concept from US (lawful intercept/CALEA)..

Toronto is a much cleaner and nicer city, I can drive around everywhere (initially I thought I would not miss my car; I was wrong). I am also Canadian so I prefer to stay in Canada if possible.

Also Toronto native; was making just under 100k ~ 3 years ago in SysEng/devops role. Now working in NYC in similar role at ~ 185k (Cdn). Even with CoL (housing) of NYC, my savings is much higher.

Personally I much prefer to live in Toronto but the salary is just too low.