GCP organization structure is such a breath of fresh air after dealing with AWS. AWS Orgs and all the complexity with VPC and DNS management at a scale of hundreds of accounts is just a complete pain in the arse. GCP makes it far easier with Shared VPC and org/folder/project structure.
I personally like these detailed step by step readmes. It’s helpful for someone clueless dropping in to get quickly started and develop a working prototype. Too many times you’re left to your own devices when setting up dependencies. I totally understand if you’re expected to do some homework. On another hand, it certainly helps to gently guide the reader versus give them a high level request to install this or that.
That's awesome! I've used "the pool on the roof must have a leak" a few times as well. That movies has so many one-liner quotes that still live on to this day.
Are you me? Similar experience - Commodore 64 was my first computer (albeit a hand-me-down). Folks kept yelling about spending too much time on the computer while I was trying to get stuff to run lol.
Getting to desert areas to maintain the rails takes time and resources. We're talking about large swaths of deserts and desolate land with absolutely no cities or towns for double-triple digits of miles.
I've used FreeIPA with great success in the past. It really took care of the client onboarding and replication and hid all the ugly complexity behind it. UI was also pretty dang good.
I'm with you. I find that I feel like I know Linux like the back of my hands because I can fluidly interface with stock tools with a breeze. These new tools are great but I just don't see them widely spread across many remote systems that I manage. Just managing those packages across a fleet sounds like a pain in the ass.
After 15 years, my black MacBook is in a closet. I will admit that it's still looking good compared to my spouse's 2007 white MacBook (that we still have). Running Linux on those was painful due to trackpad driver issues :(. Otherwise they would still be doing something in my household.
I cut my sysadmin teeth doing tape work in early 2000s. It was quite fun but I don't miss changing tapes and ensuring that the FC tape loader library properly labeled them.
Folks that buy trucks for utility will keep buying ICE trucks until the EVs solve that problem. For now, this EV truck is for folks in the city and suburbs - hardly any of them will see true off-roading.
I vividly remember compiling KDE (12-24 hours) and Firefox (3+ hours) back in like 2006. The hype and complains about Gentoo’s compilation times were legendary back then.
This maybe just an anecdotal conjecture, but I've noticed this a lot lately with many news sites. It seems that with the advent of social media and smart phones, our attention spans have drastically shortened. Now all the articles have paragraphs that are 2-3 sentences long.
Humility goes a long way in life. Anecdotally, it's definitely something a lot of software developers and systems engineers should learn how to practice.
How do you typically screen for such personality characteristics? I'm curious since my current role involves interviewing a lot of engineers. I too have noticed similar traits in others in the past and I shamefully admit that I myself was pedantic about silly semantics and syntax in code reviews. Sometimes criticism of someone's code was warranted, and sometimes it wasn't and it was just me being picky (I like clean, readable code).
I've used Martin Matuska's mfsbsd in the past to install a system with ZFS on root. I believe now that's natively supported, but back in the day it was quite an involved thing :)
Now that's a name that I haven't heard in a while since my youth. There is so much of the past web that is long forgotten and never had been experienced by today's youth.
Same. Samsung has had a bad reputation for a while. I remember having issues with their CRT monitors back in mid 2000s. I bought one of their smart TVs back in 2011 and it's had issues with the panel ever since with randomly showing purple & pink lines. Their cell phones have also been crap in my personal experience.
Problem with security spending is that a lot of it comes down to useless audits which really don't find any holes - they just "enforce" compliance. Yes, PCI compliance is important but how many PCI compliant companies have been breached in the past decade?