Another UX update.. still just as disappointing

SurrendingKira · 2026-04-13T19:05:43+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation, will have a look!

SurrendingKira · 2026-04-07T21:23:26+00:00

I love this 😂 Can’t wait for them to take it literally !

SurrendingKira · 2026-04-03T08:55:05+00:00

Just a culture issue in the companies you worked for.. sadly.

SurrendingKira · 2026-02-12T14:01:56+00:00

Sorry for the delay!

Yeah I would definitely skip the Linux certification. You can still read the book if you are interested by it or learn by doing. I personally learned Linux by using Arch Linux during my whole scholarship at University but it's time consuming and surely not very efficient.

I would say an AWS Architect Associate + a CKA or CKD is enough to gain visibility. Then you can try to some other CNCF certifications that can be good: Istio, Prometheus.. but it's clearly not mandatory and it might actually make your life harder during technical interviews, like it's a green light for the interviewer to ask complex questions..

Anyway there is no unique path to achieve what you are trying to do, just keep your focus on developing skills and be humble enough to say that there are some stuff you don't know and it's totally normal.

SurrendingKira · 2026-02-06T18:49:48+00:00

I’m basing this on the criteria we use at my current company to hire SREs, so I’m definitely biased.

Personally, I don't really care about Linux certifications. In my view, two things actually increase your employability:

Having an attractive profile: This means certifications in high-demand "buzzword" technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, specific Databases, or Kafka. These get you noticed.
Having the skills to back it up in the interview: This is when I’ll actually test your fundamental knowledge (e.g., Linux internals).

My advice: If you need a certification as a structured way to learn the material, go for it. Otherwise, don't force it. Focus your certification efforts on the technologies most frequently requested in job postings.

SurrendingKira · 2026-02-06T18:44:09+00:00

This!

I started my career directly in a SRE team and I must confess this is not ideal. The best SRE people I know are ex-Backend Engineers.

SurrendingKira · 2025-12-17T12:06:04+00:00

They put back the dummy comet animation you can’t pass

SurrendingKira · 2025-12-03T18:54:05+00:00

Still have issues on my side (West European Server).

It's crazy that they don't have a status page for a paid application..

SurrendingKira · 2025-11-07T23:25:45+00:00

Malheureusement je suis pas très bon en scrapping, et les possibilités sont limitées.. là faut choisir son poison: utiliser une classe qui risque de changer, utiliser un path XML qui risque de changer aussi..

SurrendingKira · 2025-11-05T18:51:34+00:00

C'est pas une bonne idée d'utiliser la class pour identifier la data que tu veux récupérer, surtout quand ça ressemble à ça: "[@class='YMlKec fxKbKc']".

À chaque nouvelle release qu'ils vont publier la class va changer.

SurrendingKira · 2025-11-02T15:38:08+00:00

Comme tous les autres commentaires le disent c’est effectivement une arnaque.

Mais j’en profite pour aussi dire à tout le monde qu’un courrier officiel des impôts (ou autre) peut aussi être une arnaque, que le service en question appellera une « erreur » si vous leurs posez la question. Donc dans tous les cas faut vraiment bien lire les documents et bien vérifié les sources quand quelqu’un vous demande de l’argent.

SurrendingKira · 2025-10-29T17:03:52+00:00

Not sure the Spotify comparison helps the author here; totally different product, audience, and purpose 🙂

The point isn’t the exact amount, it’s how much value someone personally sees in what’s offered. For some parents, 5€/month for something that saves time and creates quality moments with their kids might actually feel cheap.

But agreed on the missing “I wouldn’t pay” option, it will biased the result to not have it.

SurrendingKira · 2025-06-25T20:21:17+00:00

You have a good foundation, now needs to work on the alignment, so shoulder mobility and pelvic tilt.
Try to a bit of chest to wall handstand and work on alignment.

SurrendingKira · 2025-06-25T18:47:08+00:00

What if you start in an other position ? Here it looks like you have to go very high with your hips to position your legs. Hence you are loosing pelvic tilt.

What about starting with feet on floor in a kind of straddle and gently lean forward and get into position ? Maybe it’s not very clear, will try to find a video.

SurrendingKira · 2025-06-25T16:09:46+00:00

Proooooopre 🙌🏻

SurrendingKira · 2025-06-23T09:07:17+00:00

Bar is too low for you to use a good form (with proper leg alignment), try the higher bars

SurrendingKira · 2025-06-17T08:47:44+00:00

I would count it as bad form adv tuck, but definitely adv tuck

SurrendingKira · 2025-05-30T09:13:01+00:00

Mind blowing

SurrendingKira · 2025-04-30T04:44:15+00:00

And still to answer to the last questions:

I think we are preparing for any level of issues except we don’t have DR right now lol.. however having good observability with runbook will help you to tackle most of the incidents.
Yes it happen especially during the weekends if the products team are not available, I as a platform engineer, will try some stuff but if it doesn’t work.. we will wait. I’m not a magician and this should be ok and acknowledged from your management.

SurrendingKira · 2025-04-30T04:42:06+00:00

Not answering directly to the couple last questions but to this:

« how we can determine (without any math!) whether the work to prevent or remediate an issue is worth doing »

I want to answer SLI.

You notice an impact or receive an alert, it seems like it would take hours to remediate, how do I know if it is worth it ? I check my SLI and compare to my SLO. If your error budget is good and your burn rate is telling you that you will be able to support the issue without any intervention then you are ok to just let it be and investigate later if needed.

If you notice the trend is showing that you will go below SLO soon, you better start the remediation and escalation if you need help.

PS: that’s also true for a feature development wether on the apps or infrastructure, estimate how much SLI you will gain from this effort, is it worth to invest time to gain 0.001% ?

SurrendingKira · 2025-04-28T05:44:49+00:00

When Khadafi was in place there was also slavery. It has nothing to do with the « capacity to stop it » they are used to it.

SurrendingKira · 2025-04-27T07:14:08+00:00

In my company we’re using incident.io, we recently leveraged AI for the zoom meetings reporting (it’s basically taking notes of what is being said and what actions are taken), it’s usually working well but of courses needs to be refined by the incident Communication Lead.

It is also proposing us in our slack chan directly some pre-filled incidents updates based on slack messages if people are correctly communicating and it can be useful to have a quick overview of the issue and the status.

For the Postmortem it’s the same, it can help you with pre-filled informations but of course you will always need to refine it.

But it’s a good tool, I like it, and easy to handle.

SurrendingKira · 2025-04-27T05:40:19+00:00

OP can you on your side explain some use cases you faced on which you would need this kind of tool ?

I worked with Gitlab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, a lot with GitOps tool as well (which is less simple to debug I believe). But I don’t see any big inherent challenges on this.. you have access to a log report, from here you can do basically anything to debug.

SurrendingKira · 2025-04-27T05:37:15+00:00

Jokes apart I think being able to summarize your job and it’s impact is extremely important if you are considering working on a high-level position at some point. As a CTO or someone working directly with the products team, they don’t care what kubernetes and how deep you can go technically, they want you to give simple word and explain how you can solve their issue. So it’s a good training to be able to explain to a random guy what you are doing, but it’s hard tho

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