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Are you doing a year in review for the past year?

I'm working on a GitHub + Slack bot to let organizations customize and get notifications on Slack from GitHub.

I've tried using the official GitHub Slack integration (https://github.com/integrations/slack) but found it limiting and unmaintained by GitHub. For example, at the companies I've worked at, we want to get notifications sent to a specific channel when there are deploys to the "production" environment on GitHub. The official integration doesn't let you filter events by environment, so it's all or nothing. Your Slack channel for production releases will be filled with staging and qa notifications.

I designed it so users can filter on essentially any field of any event - deployment environment, branch patterns, file paths, PR labels, commit authors, etc.

It's at chivesbot.com as a hosted service, however, the signups are disabled right now as I'm working on some core features, but here are a couple of screenshots of the filter creation: https://imgur.com/a/pSiolWu

I'm looking for early beta users and feedback, so if this problem resonates with you, my email can be found in my profile.

This infamous one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I'm in the early stages of working on a Kubernetes cost monitoring solution.

The current solutions out there are too expensive and not self-serve.

If anybody else has this problem, I'd love to chat with you.

I'm sure somebody can provide a more comprehensive history, but I'm pretty sure it started with Microsoft being cargo-culted. Then when Microsoft stopped being as cool, everybody started copying Google and how they did interviews.

Microsoft did brain teasers like "How many ping pong balls fit on a bus?" questions. Then Google copied that to start. Google later realized that performance on these questions didn't predict performance on the job and developed a more data-driven approach that you see today (leetcode style) that other companies copy today.

I'm in the camp that interviewing loops all have tradeoffs, but if you're a smaller company you can't afford to copy how big tech giants interview candidates. Their funnels are much larger, and they can afford to skip on potentially quality candidates.

I'm working on https://chivesbot.com/, a GitHub Slack app.

I was frustrated by GitHub's official Slack integration and the lack of certain customization and filtering capabilities. For example, I wanted to be able to send all production deployments to a specific Slack channel, but I couldn't.

I've always wanted to do mechanical refactors and recently ran into the problem the author ran into where tree-sitter can't write back the AST as source. Is there an alternative that is able to do this for most programming languages?

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I have extensive experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more.

In the past, I've:

- Saved a company $500k a year in CI infrastructure costs.

- Worked with several hundred engineer organizations to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions.

- Introduced configuration as code and GitOps best practices to teams.

- Built dynamic review environments triggered on a pull request.

SEEKING WORK - Remote US - DevOps/SRE/Platform

Infrastructure Engineer As A Service: $7,500 a month:

- 1 request at a time

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Contact me at hn@builds.dev with any questions.

I’m an infrastructure engineer who can help you scale your company’s DevOps processes. I’ve been the first infrastructure engineer at a unicorn startup and have helped the team scale from a couple dozen engineers to over 70 engineers.

I have extensive experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more.

In the past, I've:

- Saved a company $500k a year in CI infrastructure costs.

- Worked with several hundred engineer organizations to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions.

- Introduced configuration as code and GitOps best practices to teams.

- Built dynamic review environments triggered on a pull request.

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- 1 request at a time

- Cancel any time

Contact me at hn@cbui.dev with any questions.

I’m an infrastructure engineer who can help you scale your company’s DevOps processes. I’ve been the first infrastructure engineer at a unicorn startup and have helped the team scale from a couple dozen engineers to over 70 engineers.

I have extensive experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more.

In the past, I've:

- Saved a company $500k a year in CI infrastructure costs.

- Worked with several hundred engineer organizations to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions.

- Introduced configuration as code and GitOps best practices to teams.

- Built dynamic review environments triggered on a pull request.

I've struggled with perfectionism procrastination. For example, I've tried in the past to start a weekly newsletter for my blog but was never consistent with it.

In the middle of November, I started a daily (M-F) newsletter on topics related to DevOps. I've been consistent with it ever since.

The strategies the article outlines that have helped me the most are breaking things down into small pieces and starting small.

Also, by making my newsletter daily, it took a lot of pressure off me. I didn't feel like I had to have a "hit" every article like with weekly or monthly cadences. If the article sucked, then tomorrow is a new day with a new article.

I got an email 6 hours ago masquerading as my mail server admin.

Service Suspension reminder for hn@<my domain>

According to reddit, this is a joke/shitpost.

Update: Found the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/16hsorm/cult_of_the_...

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I’m an infrastructure engineer who can help you scale your company’s DevOps processes. I’ve been the first infrastructure engineer at a unicorn startup and have helped the team scale from about 15 engineers to over 70 engineers.

I have a lot of experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more.

In the past, I've:

- Saved a company $500k a year in CI infrastructure costs. - Worked with several hundred engineer organizations to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. - Introduced configuration as code and GitOps best practices to teams. - Built dynamic review environments triggered on a pull request.

I’m offering 1 hour strategy consults at $300. We’ll hop on a call and discuss your current situation and we’ll work together to find the best path forward for your company.

If you feel like I didn’t provide enough value, I’ll refund you for the hour.

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I used to do Clojure professionally. I think the community’s disdain for frameworks really stunted Clojure’s adoption.

Currently, I’m learning Elixir and Phoenix.

Do you think people are more willing to hire contractors due to the economy?

SEEKING WORK - Remote US - DevOps

Are you thinking about migrating to AWS EKS? I can help.

I’m offering a fixed-price engagement to plan out your migration to EKS.

You'll get on a call with me, and we'll talk about your current infrastructure.

You'll receive a document outlining a plan for your migration to EKS. I'll break down the risks and provide a breakdown of the work. You can then take this plan and execute the implementation with your team.

Price: $1200

About Me:

I’m currently a Staff Engineer at a unicorn startup. I shaped the foundations of our current compute infrastructure on EKS for 60 engineers.

Contact: hn@cbui.dev

Thanks a lot for this actually. I just gave it a shot and it seems to have been the piece I've been missing.

I edited the comment to add some additional details.

Am I not supposed to load or compile the contents of an `.asd` file?

There's a weird spike in new accounts with what appear to be AI generated comments in this thread.

One problem I run into when learning Common Lisp is ASDF. For some reason I can't figure out how to use it properly. For example, when I open a system definition in a new REPL, what's the expected workflow? I'm using emacs and slime by the way. Maybe my environment is set up wrong. I also have to prefix the `defsystem`s with `asdf:`. When I look at examples in open source projects they just straight up use `uiop` functions and `defsystem` in their `.asd` files without the package.

Starting out on Digital Ocean or Heroku is usually a great idea.

I consult with companies that are looking to move in the other direction, from Digital Ocean to AWS.

Their biggest pain points as they grew are:

1. The lack of granular permissions scoping and access control.

2. The networking primitives in Digital Ocean ended up being too restrictive. For example, they wanted to have static egress IPs and it was much harder to do that in Digital Ocean than AWS.

3. The need for more of the managed services AWS offers.

Wow, Mogul looks exactly like what I was looking for in a CRM for myself.

How did you grow your newsletter/market your book? My goal for 2023 is to focus on growing my audience for my newsletter on devopsy topics.

Do they ship? I can’t find any details.

Me too! I thought there was a ship that'll burn down if you don't code fast enough. The video thumbnail showing "100 seconds" made me think there was a timer.

We do the same at my current company. For common, core services on kubernetes clusters we use the terraform helm provider to install them.

I use org-mode with org-journal https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

What's nice about this workflow is when I create TODO items and don't finish them for a day it transfers over to the next day.

If the first is on a weekend then it's posted on Monday.

I recently revisited a repository I was working on and almost gave up (on using Clojure) trying to switch from lein to deps.edn. Granted I didn't have to switch to deps.edn, but it felt like it was going to be the way forward.