Owner at Turing Technology Services, Independent IT Contractor
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Platform engineering is more than a developer portal. It gives teams shared, supported paths to deliver and operate software.
My practical introduction covers self-service, golden paths and ownership:
blog.turingts.com/platform-e…
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My take: software and networks are extremely, mindbogglingly complicated.
Turns out Kubernetes is a tool designed to model all of that complexity and make it deployable. It's astonishingly good at it.
When people beat on Kubernetes, they're either trolling or failing to appreciate the staggering amount of complexity it was designed and evolved to model.
The only intellectually honest path out of that complexity is to simplify our software stack. This is why you can't ship "good DX for Kubernetes", incidentally, and why many have tried and failed.
We learned this lesson early days of @vercel and why we refined our focus onto web frameworks and interactive frontend compute. It's no longer possible to deploy a Docker containerized 128gb mem Java backend monolith with 3 instances connected to a self-hosted database replica set with custom networks and upgrade policies.
It turned out making certain things impossible and saying "no" was the key to making a lot of developers happy and removing a lot of yaml config and devops headache from the world.
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THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison
Lies
We are being lied to.
We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.
We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.
We are told to be pessimistic.
The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.
We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.
We are told to be miserable about the future.
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Healthy engineering teams, unhealthy engineering teams. Some thoughts:
ALT Healthy teams. What makes for a healthy team? Clarity. It’s clear why the team exists, what its goals are, and how they get there Execution. The team gets things done. Morale. This is generally good. No conflict. Lack of major confict between team members. Open communication and trust. Common reasons for unhealthy teams Unhealthy: opposite of healthy. It includes lack of clarity, poor execution, low morale, conflict, lack of trust on the team. Poor management. This could mean micromanaging, letting problems stir, inconsistent expectations, playing favorites, biases and many others. “Brilliant jerk”. A bad apple on the team that the manager avoids “upsetting” this experienced person. Lack of feedback. People are unaware how their behaviour negatively affects the team and don’t get this feedback. Lack of skills on the team. The team is missing skills/expertise to execute efficiently. Lack of direction or an ever-changing direction. Treading water: too much operational load. Low morale.
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Hey, we have some exciting news about the Turing Pi V2. Check it out.
#turingpi #kubernetes #edgecomputing #raspberrypi #nvidia
turingpi.com/turing-pi-v2-is…
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Open Source solutions for chaos engineering in Kubernetes:
- kube-monkey
- chaoskube
- Chaos Mesh
- Litmus Chaos
- Chaos Toolkit
- KubeInvaders
→ blog.flant.com/chaos-enginee…
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– We don't write tests.
– Why?
– Because we don’t have time for it.
– Why?
– Because there is too much work and pressure.
– Why?
– Because we don’t move fast enough.
– Why?
– Because changing software has become difficult and risky.
– Why?
– Because we don’t write tests.
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New release:
Natively mount secrets from @Azure KeyVault into your Pods in AKS
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azu…
Super cool stuff from the @Azure OSS team.
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Kubernetes Multi-Cloud — Open Service Broker API & Service Catalog
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Drastically Improve your Kubernetes Deployments with Helm
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Anthos: Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure
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How engineers at Rebel Foods moved a giant monolithic system to microservices
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The power of owning demand:
Google paid Apple $9B to continue to be default search on iOS.
Microsoft's Bing, by contrast, generated $1.7B in revenue.
So Apple's "search business" 5x Microsft's...without having a search engine.
florentcrivello.com/index.ph…
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Photo of one single atom (the bright dot at the center of the pictures). 🧐It's being illuminated by a laser and held motionless thanks to an electric field. It absorbs and re-emits light particles sufficiently quickly for an ordinary camera to capture it.
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Microservices with Crystal and Kemal – Ferhat Yildiz – Medium #Crystal #Docker #Microservices #Kemal medium.com/@ferhat.yildiz_39…
Custom AWS Lambda runtimes ❤️ aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new… #reInvent
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