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If anyone was around for the dot-com bubble any company internet related or with a web like name was irrationally funded, P/E didn't matter, burn didn't matter, product didn't matter.

AI has all the same markers of a the dot com bubble and eventually venture capital will dry up and many AI companies will go bust with a few remaining that make something useful with an unmet niche.

OpenGitOps 7 months ago

Proper CI/CD for Gitops is actually really hard, how do you alert to failures that doesn't tie you to a specific provider and follows an alert chain? How do you chain dependent Gitops pipelines without coding a giant pipeline mess? How do you do healthchecks in a portable manner on what is deployed without giving the CI/CD runners basically global root?.. and on and on and on, this is all solved by Fluxcd or Argocd.

OpenGitOps 7 months ago

The whole business model of cloud providers is to charge a premium for their ecosystem and to create lock-in by making everything interdependent. A Kubernetes deployment could cost 100k/yr a similar cloud deployment would be ~1m/yr.

Have you worked at an organization without RFCs, ADRs, etc? The alternative is really just the wild west and whatever politics or pull a person has. RFCs and ADRs are good in the sense that they document _something_ even if the document is junk it's better than an assumption.

Really though it's the organization (and people) that makes or breaks anything.

Helm 4.0 8 months ago

Use helm to generate the manifests with a Makefile, use Kustomize to change said manifests for prod, staging, etc.

I just want prettier default diagrams in d2, the default theme (and other ones) is a hard sell to orgs where management isn't technical. Something similar to the Obsidian diagram theme

What I don't understand is why not use what I've seen in industrial processes? Why not a low boiling point liquid and a heat exchanger? Or even better power a turbine like biogas plants do

Sadly the time when an org wanted people to excel and really grow at is over, the new normal is peak capitalism of maximizing value.

People develop relationships with coworkers, you care if someone has issues, you're happy if a solution makes customers/coworkers happy but none of that matters to the lawnmower, it just mows lawns.

The goal of an abstraction should be to make reasoning about the code easier, generally that means hiding complexity but that shouldn't be the goal.

In my opinion a common issue in programming is premature abstraction without understanding the interactions as a whole.

DSC has a really really wide variety of windows modules and unfortunately there isn't really anything comparable, Puppet and Ansible do have interfaces to DSC modules but it's kind of janky compared to just using DSC.

So HAProxy has a bit of a love/hate relationship in Kubernetes, the problem really being UDP and the mess(?) that is proxying stateless traffic. The Gateway API kind of expecting UDP proxying support doesn't help.

I expect this to rise dramatically in Canada, Canadian tech salaries are a race to the bottom due to companies exploiting students for PR where they can advertise barely livable wages for something in the states that would get $150-250k.

If you look at COL and pay Vancouver regularly offers 40-60k CAD salary ($29k USD) where rent for a bedroom is $1.5-2k/mo