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I've had a really great experience with docker compose and systemd units. I use a generic systemd unit and it's just as easy as setting up users then `systemctl enable --now docker-compose@service-name`.

It's bizarre that we've prioritized increasing shelter costs for all of those who haven't hedged it. It's costing the next generation and is just unsustainable.

It wouldn't even be a bad thing if rent was low. But it can't be, as that would probably imply a lower cost of ownership.

In the zero interest rate environment it was easier to get good advice and orders of magnitude more more money. A lot of those companies are crap.

Google had good timing but importantly, a good product and market fit. Prior search engines sucked in comparison with obnoxious monetization.

I can't read tea leaves but I'm fairly confident they're not shutting down SRE. They want to get back to sublinear scaling and move away from the "devs create crap, bribe SRE (headcount) to babysit it in production". It was a major anti-pattern for the role.

Not really, the company is massive and until recently very motivated (promo) to launch new things. SREs probably helped get things across the finish line but likely didn't start those projects.

In my experience it's fun to do that but only worth it when SLOs are on the line (so a significant number of bad machines).

What about projects people made for fun and put it online because they're proud of it?

It's also common advice to put your portfolio online. They really don't show up in internet searches as far I've seen.