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Embracing failures and cutting infrastructure costs: Spot instances in Kubernetes
The last decades have seen a global shift from on-premise data centres to the provisioning of Virtual Machines (VMs) from mainstream cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
One Fish, Two Fish, Blue Fish Sporting New Red Hat
Since Sunday afternoon, I’ve been in a whirlwind of meetings, discussions, and calls about IBM’s plan to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion. My mind has been racing but, after some consideration, I’ve decided to share my thoughts as a narrative timeline.
Why giving back is important to the DevOps culture
To be fair, I wrote this article, but I think it's got some great insight from Jeff Smith (Centro) and Emily Freeman (Microsoft) about why the "S" in CALMS is essential.
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Being the only person that does something at a company doesn’t make you irreplaceable or indespensible.
It makes you a liability.
Michael Ducy
Every parent’s nightmare just happened, and now I have to have “the talk” with my oldest son.
Son: “I found this cool thing in terminal, see I can play Tetris or Pong”
Me: “what did you run to get that”
Son: “It’s called emacs” https://t.co/6wd2p1gcEF
nicole forsgren
someday i will get a tattoo that says:
"trust no one. people are dumb."
but in sanskrit, so i can tell people it's a Rumi poem, and they'll think i'm deep and learn-ed.
Rob Cummings
Todays obvious hot take...senior leaders (VP+) inside large enterprises are so often unknowingly super disconnected from the reality of how work is done on the ground. Put on your curiosity hat and go gemba walk!
Emily Freeman
There are few things I loathe more than the "name and shame" approach to Twitter.
I need to do a full talk on shame because tech, as you know, is basically 100 people. The more we treat each other like we're in middle school, the more damaging this gets.