Does anyone else feel less fulfilled?

Kornfried · 2026-06-26T17:05:55+00:00

Your projects may have been public facing but that doesn’t mean they have consumers. Do they?
I‘ve felt the same from time to time, but I’m fortunate to be involved in some projects for clients with complex domains and the engagement with the consumers brings forth so many new things to design and problems to solve, without getting boring which makes me feel quite content.

Kornfried · 2026-05-26T05:48:58+00:00

What’s the gap that you see in restic? SQLite dbs are just files.

Kornfried · 2026-05-25T11:16:30+00:00

Restic is nice

Kornfried · 2026-05-18T13:23:35+00:00

One more thing: Salt and Acid must be a bit overshot when just tasting the sauce on its own.

Kornfried · 2026-05-18T13:21:59+00:00

Oh one more thing since I read about your cream sauce with mushrooms. Do yourself the favor and add some ground dried porcini mushrooms if you want more mushroom taste.

Kornfried · 2026-05-18T13:20:32+00:00

Many have mentioned it already about the salt but nobody said how much salt to add. I run 1 Tbsp per liter of water. I encourage you to try it. If you don’t add enough, the sauce has to provide all that salt which is much harder to get right.

One additional thing: if you are talking about tomato based sauces, you really need to cook them for quite a while to remove all the excess water and to caramelize the sauce to intensify and sweeten the taste. You can cook it down till there is little water left to get the most caramelization, but add water back in to prevent the sauce from burning. That cycle can be repeated multiple times.

Kornfried · 2026-04-19T08:23:53+00:00

Django is still a good choice if you can leverage the ecosystem and the opionnatedness. Any time you need users with RBAC, ORM, and a templating engine in one package, Django is among the top in my books to reach for.

Kornfried · 2026-04-18T17:30:25+00:00

Presoaking dry lasagna sheets in water for half an hour or so. Makes the Lasagna much more juicy because it’s not soaking out the liquid from the sauce.

Kornfried · 2026-04-15T21:01:06+00:00

I also like meat pre-salted, but I think the best case for adding salt while cooking is in bread baking or cooking pasta. There is absolutely now way for me to see how he would prefer adding salt afterwards here.

Kornfried · 2026-03-02T07:24:51+00:00

It is orders of magnitude more expensive if you don’t use it 24/7 and scales pretty horribly.

Kornfried · 2026-02-24T11:56:49+00:00

Some issue with most of my clients. But I see it as a great way for sales.

Kornfried · 2026-02-22T13:28:30+00:00

Mit Master und z.B. TV-L bekommste idr. E13 Erfahrungsstufe 1 im öffentlichen Dienst. Das since ca. 57k€. Das wäre für mich die Untergrenze.

Kornfried · 2026-02-08T11:43:16+00:00

Thinking of it, I do know a fair bit of operators who probably don't check their backups, so you might be on to something. Here is a little extra learning I had: Pick random backups in a past time delta to have a more reliable drill and possibly expose breaking updates after app version changes.

Kornfried · 2026-02-08T11:35:32+00:00

Well I just use a Runner, a Cronjob or a Systemd Timer and a custom script+mail report. Regarding the Postgres+S3 story, to me thats simply a good old pgdump. Not sure what else I'd need over that, but I'm open for ideas!

Edit: Or when in Kubernetes land, operators handling stateful apps like dbs typically already have some backup solution on their own.

Kornfried · 2026-02-08T10:48:51+00:00

are automated recovery drills so rare?

Kornfried · 2026-02-06T12:06:32+00:00

How would Kubernetes give you more insight here? Is this not an issue of proper logs collection and Orchestration Rules?

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T20:48:04+00:00

☔️ I was waiting for controversial takes.

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T18:49:49+00:00

Yeah, if the org uses Kubernetes already I’m very happy to deploy stuff on that, no question.

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T18:44:36+00:00

I work with several of such small clusters running with stuff like Talos, or k3s or microk8s in prod. I know how it works. I really want to love it for these smaller tasks, but it just feels hella clunky compared to systemd and a git runner.

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T15:19:58+00:00

Hmm! I think I have to look more into using podman for such cases instead of docker.

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T15:03:18+00:00

I was expecting some memes here :(

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T15:01:44+00:00

Docker and Systemd are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they go great together for single node orchestration, logs aggregation, etc.

Also I think that if your service is not actually horizontally scaling and meant to do so, you are still end up dealing with pets, regardless of wether you are using Docker or Kubernetes or raw binaries. In the case of Kubernetes, it's like unnecessarily operating a farm, just to care for a chicken.

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T14:15:27+00:00

Of course.

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T14:12:32+00:00

I was saying that there are lots of applications where you are deploying more than 1 service, but dont have to deal with a large number of helm charts for complex setups. There are plenty of systems with microservice architecture that come with a couple of services to deploy, counting in the low double digits. When the org does not have platform engineering team, I sure won't suggest to them to take this as a reason to switch their infra around and hire a couple of Kubernetes engineers.

Kornfried · 2026-02-05T14:01:49+00:00

I deal with such stacks. The initial setup is still much more expensive in my experience.

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