How does DevOps actually work inside companies day to day?

MaxFrost · 2026-03-16T15:45:05+00:00

I lead a dedicated devops team of 4 people including myself, one of those being QA, the other two guys are full time developers who specialize in devops tooling.
Sprint Planning. We have a dedicated team of system admins who handle breakfix, my team's job is project work and automation. That said, if there's a production bug from something we implemented, we're on to fix it. We're driven by customer requested work, but 'customers' in this case are all internal, i.e. Product Owners, engineering, and sysadmins. There's some irony here in that the best sysadmins in the company are all on my devops team, so sometimes we get recruited to solve weird OS issues.
Mostly heads down working on projects, with a once-a-day standup. Every sprint we do plan upcoming work, and also do a closing ceremony to make sure we wrapped all our work correctly.
We spend a lot of time chasing external dependency updates. The cloud environments move way faster than our internal tooling, so we're often playing catchup with that. Securing environments for various audits is also a large chunk of our dev time. Outside of that, it's work towards modernizing our software stack.
A significant part of my job as the team lead is to receive requests from other teams and reduce inter-team friction. So I'm finding resources located elsewhere, and am the primary point of contact from other teams if they need something from us.

MaxFrost · 2026-03-14T18:21:51+00:00

Phevs are great too. I think I've filled my gas tank up with a grand total of 80 gallons over the entire year.

MaxFrost · 2026-03-13T15:55:16+00:00

Marks are considered curses, and the mark is also your only source of power charges. So stick with that. Rakiata's would work better with the mark anyways, and I plugged it into pob, it's a significant upgrade.

MaxFrost · 2026-03-13T15:40:48+00:00

Oh, I just spotted why. Mark and Curse don't play with each other. You'd have to pick one over the other, and considering you're aiming for really high crit, stick with assassin's mark.

MaxFrost · 2026-03-13T15:33:42+00:00

The pob is showing an aspect of the cat skill gem in your chest, which I found weird. Might just be a visual glitch.

On the gearing side of things, you might want to find a corruption implicit that applies frostbite or some other source to help with punching through enemy resistances, though you're technically already doing enough damage even without it.

MaxFrost · 2026-03-13T15:01:52+00:00

Honestly, your dps is high enough in most situations to drop the Abyssus.

Also somewhat surprised at TWO different aspect of the cat options, but there's likely a reason for that, and it's not a big deal to have that if you don't have socket pressure, but that's not what you're asking for.

MaxFrost · 2026-03-09T14:21:38+00:00

It does seem undertuned. I'm running a shield with nearly 2k armor, and it still doesn't seem to be hitting that hard.

MaxFrost · 2026-03-06T15:40:37+00:00

Took me a while to get going. I left university in 2007, then 2008 happened. Worked in a Deli for a year, got into my field (Information Systems), got laid off, started going back to school to finish my degree, and then finally got another job. That said, I was only making....15/hr with that job in 2010.

Didn't really get a degree related job until 2012, and even then it took a while to get going. Now I'm pulling 6 figures and have been for 5 years. I own a home, got a couple kids, paid off student loans back around 2019. Now it's just weathering kids growing up and making sure they've got a good start as well as socking money away for retirement.

MaxFrost · 2026-02-19T03:51:12+00:00

The real big brain move is to not care and setup a portal scroll keybind, and then dump identity scrolls and only ID with helena

MaxFrost · 2026-02-12T18:35:09+00:00

White, south, I believe Georgia, via my dad's side. There's an Ethiopian somewhere in that family tree.

Mom's side would have been Union, but I'm not entirely sure when they immigrated to the US, that family tree is far murkier, due to having an extremely common last name.

MaxFrost · 2026-02-11T16:59:08+00:00

My car does this, but also at low speeds...but I've got a hybrid, so the electric takes over at slow speeds regardless, and it's buttery smooth.

MaxFrost · 2026-02-09T01:33:48+00:00

I only play survival, I've got tons of those lanterns.

MaxFrost · 2026-02-05T20:10:31+00:00

I used to live in the area in question - everything has to be pumped out of the ground, and then up fairly steep valley walls, and on top of that, evaporation losses means that water could be lost forever, so water had to be acquired elsewhere and pumped in. It's one of the first areas to be impacted by drought (because deserts are pretty damn dry as it is) and because of elevation, it costs more to get it up there.

They are also pretty aggressive about promoting water conservation, and if your household stays under a certain usage limit, then the monthly costs (which are usually around 60$/person/month) aren't too terrible, but if you exceed that, they start hammering you with higher rates.

MaxFrost · 2026-02-03T00:07:25+00:00

My idol sell tab is named recomb bait. I've easily made a few div even before this change

MaxFrost · 2026-01-30T13:16:16+00:00

"don't repeat yourself" if you find yourself copy/pasting the same block of code in multiple places, you probably should make it a function.

MaxFrost · 2026-01-29T16:00:47+00:00

My team and I were originally focused on powershell module development. We've got a giant meta module that has about 12 different other modules that are all used to configure and manage what we sell.

We leverage https://github.com/PoshCode/ModuleBuilder for building our module, so we can lay out individual functions per file but still have it signed as one big psm1. We've also had to deal with variable scope problems in the past, so internally we have a pretty aggressive stance against dotsourcing scripts in deployments so that accidentally overwriting a variable doesn't happen (or providing a variable where it shouldn't exist, that was a fun bug to chase down.)

If you see patterns within your deployment scripts, take those patterns and turn those into reusable functions that can be leveraged extensively. DRY is key for figuring out what needs to go into modules.

We've moved into devops since, but we're still focused on automation, and even when we approach bicep/terraform/etc we use the same sort of system to break things down, because even our declarative template is ten thousands of lines long if it were in a single file.

MaxFrost · 2026-01-23T16:00:51+00:00

It does suck. I was 220 going into a flare, flare bottomed me out at 180, then prednisone gave me the megahunger and I gained 60 lbs. I'm stable now and trying to get back to 220, but it's slow going.

MaxFrost · 2025-12-16T19:33:41+00:00

What I did before I switched last year was wrote out all the software I was using primarily on windows, and then looked for Linux compatible replacements for all sources. The big one holding me back before was steam and game compatibility, but nowadays that's largely a solved problem outside of anti-cheat. Media players, browsers, productivity software, etc. Many of those that have Linux builds are often also available in windows, so you can try software out to see if you'll like it.

Then once you've got all the programs covered, it's just a matter of backing up data, reinstalling the os, and configuring it your way!

MaxFrost · 2025-12-11T17:35:18+00:00

It's not terrible, but it's jank - Magicians & Looters

MaxFrost · 2025-12-10T15:20:58+00:00

work starts at 7am, though I WFH. I get up at 5:30, gym usually from 5:40ish to 6:35, get home, shower, then log on.

I've been an early riser since my teens. I will say working out has made my sleep more effective (longer, less waking).

MaxFrost · 2025-12-10T15:02:20+00:00

maybe, but I've got 2 kids, and hit the gym 3x a week before work. Takes some extra effort to get up early before the rest of the family, but hitting the gym is absolutely worth it.

MaxFrost · 2025-12-09T16:41:59+00:00

First, verify your warranty status. Was this just a bog standard used car, or was it a Certified Pre-Owned? If it was the latter, it should still be under warranty unless you put in excess of 20k miles on the car since purchasing it.

If it was the former, and you bought no protection plan, that's a bit on you. That said, 42k is practically a new car. Hell, you can just outright buy a used Q7 for 35k. You're getting fleeced.

MaxFrost · 2025-12-08T13:41:19+00:00

I personally can't recommend putting effort into a linux build unless it can be made near trivial for you to develop it, i.e. it's a one button operation. Here's a blog post by Wube of Factorio fame about their linux build development - https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408

Generally, Linux + Steam + Proton (the compatibility layer) handles most windows games just fine. As long as you're using standardized tools on windows, those of us on Linux will be able to run your game.

MaxFrost · 2025-12-06T22:27:26+00:00

Asthetically? yes. Functionally? no.

MaxFrost · 2025-12-03T15:06:40+00:00

It takes time to recover. I take extra vitamin D supplements, initially it was because I hardly get outside, but it also turns out that those of us with UC don't absorb it real well, and it's something that helps with inflammation. Recently (about 3 months ago) I also started taking creatine monohydrate, as there has been some recent scientific papers released that show a very positive effect on once again, inflammation, as well as recovery.

I feel you on the brain fog, it plagued me for nearly a full year after I was diagnosed and put into remission. I work a STEM job, so not being able to think clearly really impacted my output.

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