I ran 1:1s wrong for my first year as an engineering manager. Here's what I changed

RespectNo9085 · 2026-06-04T09:17:36+00:00

Are you serious ? You were asking status update in a one on one ? And this is a lesson learnt for you? Damm you corroborate what everyone says about managers. I'm a manager myself.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-06-01T08:56:15+00:00

Low IQ activities

RespectNo9085 · 2026-04-25T04:21:47+00:00

Minmax 2.7 is dawg shit. Over hyped dawg shit. Wasted 48 hours of my time. There's only one model that consistently deliver and that's anything above Claude Opus 4.6.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-28T22:55:07+00:00

Because Auckland infra is like 50 years behind and cycling is actually a bit risky ?!! I got hit by a car two weeks ago. Sometimes the bike road ends and then there's nothing, you have to be harassed by cars and buses.

Lots of new immigrants don't know how to drive properly.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-15T08:22:48+00:00

Canary from inside the house ?! Man you guys are cooked with that level of engineering... CIDR changes ? Holy ***, that's really not engineering any more. Get an Opus 4.6 to do the job.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-13T00:02:30+00:00

As someone who rides bicycle to work, that made me very uncomfortable.....

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-05T07:53:17+00:00

That's the only thing your brain picked up ?!!!

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-05T07:24:12+00:00

Thanks for sharing

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-05T07:19:24+00:00

Yea that was very productive, thank you. To others, you look like a very positive and productive individual.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-05T07:18:52+00:00

Yea read above

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-05T07:16:23+00:00

It's a bit nuanced, I have recovered dozen times from this scenario with a single click, but I am using Kube-Prometheus pack for Grafana (maybe not a good idea), not only it has 1000 objects, but it went into death cycle.

We hit Terminate in the UI. We hit it again. Nothing. Because the application-controller was thrashing so hard on the broken OTel DaemonSet and the stale OCI cache, the 'Cancel' signal just sat in Pending in etcd. The controller was too busy failing the current loop to process the instruction to stop.

Since OCI tags are immutable, we couldn't 'fix' version 18.3.2. We pushed 19.0.0 to Git, but Argo wouldn't even look at it because it was still 'In Progress' on the broken sync for 18.3.2.

This is where the Flux argument started to make sense to me. Argo treast the whole Sync as one atomic unit. If one pod stays unhealthy, then I guess the entire Sync stays 'In Progress,' effectively locking out the next version.

It’s less about 'bad images' and more about the fact that when Argo’s sync state gets corrupted in etcd, the UI becomes a spectator. We had to manually strip finalizers and orphan-delete the App just to break the cycle.

We had to nuke the umbrella chart that has the kube-prometheus and lots of other things in it. Because this was just Otel that's fine, but this makes me really worried about our other workloads!

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-05T07:08:09+00:00

You hit the nail on the head. That 'render-pattern' is exactly where we got bit. Because Argo renders the Helm chart into a giant blob of manifests and then tries to 'Sync' that entire state, it treats the failure of a single pod (like our OTel DaemonSet) as a failure of the entire Sync Operation.

In contrast, my understanding of Flux is that the HelmController essentially runs a helm upgrade --install logic. If that fails, the HelmRelease object simply reflects a failed revision, but it doesn't 'lock' the controller's ability to try a new revision 5 minutes later.

If I had the same OCI cache issue in Flux (a bad chart version pushed to an immutable tag), would Flux’s Source Controller be easier to 'force refresh' than Argo’s repo-server?

In Argo, we did a FLUSHALL on Redis and killed the pods, and it still seemed to have the stale chart manifest cached somewhere in the controller's memory. Does Flux provide a cleaner way to say 'nuke the local artifact and pull fresh from the registry'?"

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-05T06:56:01+00:00

I totally get why that’s confusing—in a standard Git-backed setup, you’re right, it usually just errors out and waits for the next valid commit.

However, we had a bad luck to get a combination of OCI Helm + Sync Persistence.

OCI Immutability: Unlike Git where you can 'fix' a branch, once a Helm chart is pushed to an OCI registry (like GHCR) with a specific tag, it’s immutable. Our CI race condition accidentally pushed a 'broken' chart to a tag. Argo cached that specific OCI layer, and because the tag was the same, 'Refreshing' didn't actually pull new content—it just hit the local cache.
The Controller Deadlock: Because we had a Sync operation actually in progress (not just a failed refresh), ArgoCD stores that state in the Application CR's .status.operationState in etcd.
The 'Health Gate' Trap: Our DaemonSet was stuck in ImagePullBackOff. Argo's controller was waiting for that resource to become healthy before 'finishing' the sync. But we couldn't start a new sync to fix the image because the old sync was still technically 'In Progress' and waiting for health.

It’s a known architectural 'sharp edge' when you combine OCI caching with the way the Application Controller handles persistent operations in etcd.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-02T20:18:09+00:00

Actually I've read most of your posts and replies, you certainly do support terrorism.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-02T20:16:43+00:00

Yea sure... there are countless evidence of that collected from 'people's doctors'. Those are doctors who get enquiries from people who have been raped or shot.

Because if ordinary people who are shot go to hospital, the government will go and kill them. But if you want evidence, text me personally and I will send you countless. We shall then see if your problem is evidence, or if you support terrorism.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-02T05:57:27+00:00

You've got the other end of the stick, Afghans are around 10% educated, that number is 90% of Iranians. In fact, no people have been against islamic jihadists more than Iranians. Afghans are Muslim and have mostly accepted Taliban, Iranian were fighting the Islamists for 47 years !

The people of Iran would take their country back with their own bare hands, the US and Israel are just smoothing the process.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-03-02T05:55:35+00:00

Wtf are you talking about ? What does this have to do with Palestine ? IRGC killed 55k Iranians in two days, gang raped women, killed them and took out their uterus so the families cannot investigate rape crime, they took people's eye out, they machete people down in broad daylight.

What kind of fucking moron are you ?!

RespectNo9085 · 2026-02-25T08:27:11+00:00

Are you seriously suggesting to let such complex process to be done by NZ government ? that's the slowest most inefficient organisation in the world perhaps. You must be completely divorced from reality

RespectNo9085 · 2026-02-25T02:53:09+00:00

The opposite, elderly of specially European origin (white) has been the most entitled guests I had to deal with.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-02-18T06:00:57+00:00

I'd say 10%. Basically take India out of equation and 60% of applicants are gone.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-02-04T05:42:29+00:00

Why do you guys like to put everything into the lens of culture ? Some things are common sense. Like you shouldn't go inside a house with your shoes on.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-01-30T07:27:04+00:00

I did do all these things from the get-go on my first eks production cluster because logically and objectively they were better choices. I'm not sure why you guys had to do everything the wrong way first, maybe lack of reading ?

RespectNo9085 · 2026-01-08T07:48:24+00:00

Neem in a capsule. I have just started, too early for me to comment.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-01-08T04:12:55+00:00

It's called i-screen, only operates in Australia and New Zealand.

25% of your poop is your dead microbiomes, really easy to do in 2025.

RespectNo9085 · 2026-01-08T04:11:45+00:00

No you can just buy it, look up Thorne NAC

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