I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Deux ans de retour de terrain sur Kubernetes en PME : ce qu'il apporte réellement, pourquoi sa surface d'attaque et son coût de maintenance sont sous-estimés, et à quelle condition il vaut le coup.

A blog about software craft and quality

Alex Skopic, at Current Affairs, wrote about the functional use and abuse of stimulants by people who are overworked. I stumbled upon it by way of the latest issue of Web Curios, and I think the general thrust of the article is something I find noteworthy enough to link to it. Alas, it is sloppy […]

Being open and transparent is a radical strength, not a weakness

Zak van der Merwe has spent his entire career at AWS building control planes. First for EC2 and now for DSQL. On the surface, the control plane looks quite boring: it records what should exist and reconciles that with what actually does. Nobody leaves school dreaming of building one, but Zak will be the first to tell you that if you like solving hard problems in distributed systems, there are few better places to be. It’s where many of those hard problems converge, and where the decisions you make determine whether a service survives its own growth.

Useful reference for diving into K8s

Good to know where the version number is in an UUID

xxxxxxxx-xxxx-Vxxx-Nxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

It's at the beginning of the 3rd grouping.

I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always the desired outcome. Number chart go up is good because it makes other number charts go up, specifically stock ticker number.

Instead, I act like a sponge. I listen to the stream of day-to-day noise, absorb the problems people are having and let them sit in the back of my mind. Over time, some fade away while connections begin to appear between others that initially seemed unrelated. Eventually, I start to see what’s really slowing people down and what my team or I can do about it.

A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.