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I'm still pretty new to devops and I personally love Jenkins but man is it a PITA at times. My biggest gripe is that every plug-in seems to be no longer actively maintained. We really on a huge list of plug-ins and in some cases upgrading Jenkins will break plug-ins. It's gotten to the point where I'm afraid to update to even minor or patch versions.

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Yeah, I could have worded that better. I know Zyzz was on bb.com only (well, and 4chan).

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Tangentially related but, Zyzz was also a hugely popular member of the BB forum. He was known as having one of the most desirable physiques and had a big personality (he frequently posted videos of himself at the club).

It was then discovered he was using steroids, which caused some of the community to hate him. He got booked for a reality show, but then died due to an undiagnosed heart defect.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/zyzz

It would be super rad if someone plugged this dataset into CMU Sphinx. Google is the only decent ASR and a competitive open source alternative would be awesome. A big thank you to Mozilla for this dataset.

This comment hits the nail on the head for me.

Pick a cloud provider. Spin up an instance that will be your server. Spin up an instance that will be your DB. Make your DB only listen to your server instance. Make your server instance only listen on port 80/443.

As long as your app isn't vulnerable to SQL injection type stuff, that's probably enough security for an MVP, and this kind of set up puts you on the right track for scalability.

Source: am DevOps.

Are you saying the tech industry doesn't have a diversity problem? Isn't the gender ratio all the evidence you need?

I learned a different version of this, especially relevant to those in the Bay Area.

During a gold rush, don’t dig for gold, sell shovels!

In the movie Take Your Pills, they mention Warhol taking a drug similar to Adderall. Wikipedia says it was Obetrol[1]. As an amphetamine I imagine it had a profound effect on him and his art.

Though it is fascinating that he never participated in parties. That is totally not the narrative I bought into with him. How good at fooling us he was.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obetrol

Looks like someone could use pgbouncer :)

This tool shows a lot of promise to me and I've already installed it on our stage box. Thanks!

Some of our log lines contain large json blobs that uno only ignores when I set the difference ratio >50%. Maybe you could add some sort of json detection and parsing identify and ignore similar JSON? Seems tricky but just an idea. Also, the go routine seems to panic on the linux and mac binaries when I run "uno --help".

Tools are needed that turn log analysis into more science than art. We currently use the ELK stack to analyze our logs and it works pretty well but still feels like spelunking.

Do any of you HNers have any logging tools you'd recommend?

Yuval Noah Harari has a different argument in his book Sapiens. He says that we’re living in the most peaceful period of human existence ever and it’s caused by a few factors. #1 the stakes are too high because of nuclear weapons and #2 now more than ever a country’s resources are the brains of its inhabitants, which can’t exactly be conquered.

I think we’re definitely seeing the landscape of war changing. I really hope traditional bloody war is obsolete.

I love lists like this for getting the creative gears turning. Paul Graham's old blog post is another example, if a dated one: http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html

Not sure if the OP will see this but http://sharpnado.com/ points to a “parked” page so you probably want a redirect.

This looks awesome! I haven’t heard of most of these talks so I’m excited to dive in this weekend.

Also, kudos on the UI. It’s minimal, easy to use, and works as advertised. Good software!

I agree with a lot of this, disagree with "multichannel" bit. The idea of "learning styles" is dead in the field of psychology and the advice isn't actionable in the context of a presentation or meeting anyway (how does your average powerpoint aid these supposed "kinesthetic" learners?").

I'd never heard of back-briefing but see that as something my company could benefit from, however. So thanks for that!

This comment hits the nail on the head for me. I’m mostly a non-fiction reader and so many authors dance around their point or reiterate it over and over. Robert Greene is the first offender to come to mind for me but I’m also reading Sapiens and feel the same there. If anyone has any low-fluff book recommendations I’d love to hear them!

Baseline pricing looks about 10% cheaper for workloads that won't trigger lots of bursting. This looks like a good a choice for services that aren't CPU bound.

I'd love this for python as I'm not a big fan of Ruby. Does such a thing exist?

+1 for this book. As a junior DevOps engineer this book has been super helpful.

Any chance this will get back in stock on Amazon? I don't feel like signing up with Kobo but I would purchase this book. Also a softcover version would be awesome!

Can you elaborate? What languages would fall in either category (I’m assuming python would be hacking and haskell would be protective)? Does static vs dynamic typing play a role?

As a junior dev who one day wants to be in a senior position, this is super helpful. I failed the system design portion of the triplebyte interview and this would have been invaluable to me. Thank you!

This is a fantastic idea and one I'm immediately adopting. Thank you!

I'm new to devops and thought it was crazy that Jenkins only recently implemented codified jobs (jenkinsfiles) and they truly are horrible to write.

Does anyone have any suggestions to resources or alternatives to jenkinsfiles?

Would anyone here have reservations joining a company with such a young CEO? I’m dubious of our tech culture’s inclinations to drop out of college and start a business. It feels like setting yourself up for failure. Like joining the NBA having only watched it on TV.

Ambient.ai has a very demonstrative landing page. https://ambient.ai

This is really similar to what Amazon uses in-house to manage aws roles. Not sure if there’s a commercial or open-source alternative but this could be a fruitful project for someone!

I'm trying to find a source to support your argument but I'm not having any luck.

Coursera's original course offerings gave free certificates upon completion. My understanding is that MOOCs started charging for certifications in an effort to pay the bills. The jury is still out on whether these certifications are taken seriously or not.