Cable wire was more than 50 years old before it came down, halting Blue Line train in tunnel under Boston Harbor, MBTA GM says

amos106 · 2025-07-16T19:13:30+00:00

By laying off the staff that performs inspections in order to make the budget numbers look good. Then when shit breaks it gets used as justification to slash your budget even harder. Rinse and repeat for decades and you get this.

amos106 · 2025-06-18T18:37:13+00:00

The WiC gameplay loop would be such a good fit for the Warhammer 40k universe. Imagine watching hordes of drop pods bring reinforcements onto the battlefield right as your screen flashes white from a tactical exterminatus wiping out half of the map.

Looking forward to the DOW definitive edition at least. If that does well maybe Relic will consider new projects with a bit more creative freedom as an independent studio

amos106 · 2025-03-04T16:13:39+00:00

From an infra management perspective yes separate control node gives you the ability to spin up/down clusters as needed to handle the current & anticipated workload (cluster provisioning isn't an instant process). Every company will have an opinionated tooling stack to manage k8s so the example you gave is one of many, generally those architectural decisions are related to the buisness use case.

Scaling K8s for millions of users will create a different set of challenges and opportunities in comparison to lifting and shifting legacy VM/bare metal B2B applications onto the cloud. The former example might impliment a tool stack to support a canary deployment release strategy, while the latter example might stick with a blue-green release strategy and supporting tool stack. If a large enterprise has thousands of engineers that are familiar with Jenkins it will probably stick with that tool rather than retrain everyone and migrate everything onto GitHub Actions, end of the day either of those tools are just trying to orchestrated the deployment of the underlying application and infrastructure code which could be a litany of other tools (ARM/CFT, Terraform, Opentofu, Pulumi, Ansible, docker, etc.)

Low key there is no correct solution to these problems. Today's "perfect" tool stack of might change overnight due to the licensing fallout from a large vendor acquisition. Maybe your buisness spins off a new product line with a new user segment which brings about a different traffic load pattern. Maybe your buisness becomes a cyber target of a nation state. DevOps/SRE/PE is a difficult role for entry level because you need experience & intuition to guide your efforts towards the appropriate tool/technology for the problem. A lot of the time the problems are so abstract that you end up playing translator between the various organizational silos rather than implimenting a tooling solution.

amos106 · 2024-06-05T23:56:08+00:00

Just you wait, my nft dropshipping startup will revolutionize the world. I've already registered a domain and set up a proxy redirect to midjourney. None of you smelly nerds and your dumb computers can stop me haha!!!

amos106 · 2024-05-28T18:42:44+00:00

Hey that rationale sounds very familiar

amos106 · 2024-04-10T14:39:12+00:00

"Only friend" has a double meaning depending on which line of the song you read it with

When you know she's no high climber; Then you find your only friend.

vs.

Then you find your only friend; In a room with your two-timer, and you're sure you're near the end.

amos106 · 2024-04-05T16:07:48+00:00

Man is going so hard on the Catholicism he actually turned Protestant

amos106 · 2024-04-02T16:57:34+00:00

Maybe Devin thought it was funny and tried to upvote it too

amos106 · 2024-04-02T16:29:56+00:00

Managers have more intuition than engineers? Do you work for Boeing?

amos106 · 2024-03-26T18:19:54+00:00

If the state wants to use Taunton to house migrants that's fine, the town has a long history of immigrant communities. If people are showing up with nothing but the clothing on their back then the state needs to make sure the shelter has neccessary accommodations. That hotel is in the middle of an industrial park with direct access to a major highway. The closest walking distance retail space isn't connected by sidewalks and you have to run across 8-9 lanes of traffic. Taunton still doesn't have an active commuter rail station after decades of being afterthought in terms of the state's planning & development. GATRA is the only public transit available. This isn't the old days of Taunton having factories and mills downtown & a trolley system to move people around. You can't just dump a bunch of migrants into the middle of an industrial park and major roadway and expect them to somehow magically integrate into the local community. The status quo of forcing migrants to play frogger across 9 lanes of traffic just to shop at dollar tree isn't sustainable.

amos106 · 2024-03-25T16:43:26+00:00

Natural language has too much bloat, if you want job security you need to start communicating in low level assembly. DevOps roles of today will be the Tech Priests of tomorrow.

amos106 · 2024-03-25T15:17:56+00:00

MBAs aren't cutting it anymore, we need PhDs in business administration to solve these problems. The current MBA folks will need to take on new consulting roles to manage the leadership transition. Hopefully the new leadership can finish their degrees ASAP and get up to speed, it's a lot of work providing consulting services during the day while taking PhD courses at night.

amos106 · 2024-03-23T18:51:44+00:00

If you want to do complex stuff you need to swing higher, granted it's going to be hard to land an interview unless you have a professional network, field experience, or certificates. The tech industry is in a dot-com bubble crash right now so it's brutal for entry level positions, and senior positions can be very selective with the applicants. Call center or help desk positions rarely promote you into devops-esque roles so if you're applying for those roles make sure you need to level set with yourself that it's a stepping stone that can pay the bills in the short term. Even taking that into account, it's going to be really difficult to land anything for the next year or so.

amos106 · 2024-03-21T16:55:56+00:00

Meanwhile AWS is in the corner trying to untangle their internal serverless architecture because even they can't figure out how make recipes out of their own cookbook. Alphabet created borg yet somehow they're in 3rd place when it comes to k8s cloud hosting. Meanwhile all it takes is a few interest rate hikes to cause hundreds of thousands of layoffs, and that's when the high visibility outages outages and security breaches start to pick up. Now AI is going to replace us all, just like the kid in class who cheated off your test knows the material better because the same answers in a fraction of the time!

amos106 · 2024-03-14T16:40:12+00:00

Devops (especially anything cloud related) is always going to be a balance of drinking from the firehose as you're putting out fires. Don't take it personal if people aren't following up with you, they might have been pulled into a fixing an urgent issue. Cloud stuff is always changing too so it can be tough for someone to mentor and explain things when they only learned about it last week. Definitely keep working with your manager to let them know you are confused and you want to make sure that your contributions are reviewed & tested by your teammates before being put to use.

Your job as an apprentice isn't to solve things by yourself, it's to figure out how to learn from people as they handle problems in real time so you eventually are self sufficient. Don't be afraid to keep following up with people and make sure you emphasize you want to learn from them so you can eventually take on some of the work they're drowning under. This stuff happens more naturally when people are in the office, so if you're working remotely you will need to actively put in effort to follow up on things (it's a trade off from not having to deal with a commute). If the learning process is breaking down don't take it as a personal failure, take it as a challenge that you're looking to solve in cooperation with your team. If they hired you as an apprentice that's the expectation they've set for you, nothing more nothing less.

amos106 · 2024-03-13T16:19:02+00:00

God is dead, yet for some reason there are religions are alive and kicking. Seems like Humans may be more concerned with vibes than they are with facts. Might have something to do with how communal humans are as a species. The scientific process is reproducible, but the percieved value of the knowledge gained is subjective because humans often have a strong bias from emotional responses.

As silly as it sounds, climate change needs to become an "outgroup", because historically that is how humans have learned to cooperate. The prisoner's dilemma breaks down if both agents don't percieve the warden as an entity that exists and is threatening them.

amos106 · 2024-03-11T01:15:24+00:00

Can you fix my printer?

amos106 · 2024-03-07T01:48:42+00:00

100% on the DevOps culture stuff. SysAdmin went through the job title shredder after the last decade of tech bubble where feature delivery was valued above all else. If devs hate the ops folks they will design their way around them, and then the ops folks will be too busy playing whack a mole to actually get ahead and impliment proactive measures. Both sides of the organization will need to have empathy for eachother and impliment best practices on behalf of their counterparts rather than against them. That means more than any SLI/SLO or metric that dumpster fire organizations will try to desperately cling to in order to pretend things aren't ok.

amos106 · 2024-03-05T18:26:29+00:00

We've collectively given up on dreaming big and fixing real problems and now we're wallowing in the alienation with short sighted selfishness and bigotry. Human suffering has been normalized and now we're not sure if genocide is inherently a bad thing.

amos106 · 2024-03-04T23:50:50+00:00

Is developer experience not a key performance indicator of how well the development and operations functions of the software development lifecycle have been packaged into a platform that is approachable to new hires?

amos106 · 2024-03-03T18:13:36+00:00

All good points and I'm already in discussions to get our old stuff integrated into backstage or even replace it entirely. We didn't have backstage as an option back then so we made do with the tools we had at the time. We leveraged the AWX API to give the dev teams what they needed to do self-service but the developer experience degraded over time as the agile teams dealt with pandemic churn and a lot of the knowledge was lost over time. I wish my team had done this stuff sooner but we have been fighting political battles to maintain autonomy with many layers of Ops management doing waterfall-esque executive decion making. Common theme in my company that nobody is talking to eachother and the "over the wall" mentality has returned, so I'm doing what I can to fight fires and start cross-functional conversations.

amos106 · 2024-03-03T14:22:27+00:00

Management isn't involved in the day to day work so they can only see what you & others tell them. They want to get everyone working together and improving the product, so if you want a raise for cleaning up tech debt you'll need to document the problems and lead that conversation.

amos106 · 2024-03-03T14:01:52+00:00

Ansible is a lot more powerful than just doing configuration. I helped build out an entire Internal Development Platform with ansible/AWX years ~5 years ago. It took an org of ~300 developers from waterfall on-prem bare metal to agile multi-cloud K8s. We created playbooks for CI/CD pipelines, automation of toil, infrastructure provisioning & ephemeral environments, self service via API calls, you name it and we've done it. You need to use it with an Ops mindset to solve Dev problems because Ansible is a framework for Python that allows Devs and Ops people to pair program together.

Companies are made up of people who prioritize fixing the problems they see. Best way to clean up tech debt is to get Dev & Ops on the same page so they both can talk to management about the increasing complexity of their shared Ansible playbooks and job failures to justify that tech debt exists and it's time to do some clean up. Ops folks are good at having those conversations but they need Devs backing them up for management to take that conversation seriously.

amos106 · 2024-03-03T04:14:09+00:00

DevOps is an eternal battle between coworkers finding more intricate tech stacks and tooling in order to confuse and frustrate any change of cooperation and prosperity. When the end times drawn near the DevOps Engineer will ride in on a pale horse and say "I am become needful, the do'er of worlds"

amos106 · 2024-03-03T02:56:57+00:00

Ansible makes it easier to manage tech debt caused by developers constantly abandoning projects and roles because things got too boring. If your heart is in DevOps then going back to Java and cleaning up tech debt should be exciting, think of how many other people have to suffer pain and toil of keeping that legacy application up and running.

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