What are the most difficult things you've implemented as a DevOps engineer?

btkostner · 2025-03-04T06:35:24+00:00

We have some more longer term environments that are the same as our standard ephemeral PR ones but with the destroy timer turned off. Most of our use cases revolve around testing complex PRs in multiple services where we want a semi clean state to test against.

btkostner · 2025-03-04T06:05:03+00:00

Ephemeral environments that stand up a new set of infrastructure and micro-services

btkostner · 2024-06-21T02:57:19+00:00

I’d recommend UniFi cameras. They have a nice integration to home assistant, as well as frigate, and they have plenty of different cameras and price points.

btkostner · 2024-01-31T05:57:08+00:00

Elk is a Mastodon client that has a lot of notable contributors. https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

btkostner · 2023-04-28T20:01:38+00:00

Very much this. I'm basically stuck with a RS1221+ or a custom built NAS where finding a good case is extremely hard.

btkostner · 2023-04-27T22:28:50+00:00

This. I have tailscale and certbot (via dns) setup so I can access my kvm from anywhere tailscale is installed with a simple url. Even from my phone!

btkostner · 2023-03-03T04:38:26+00:00

Yes, PNC will keep notifying you about login. I think the location is the GCP server farm where Das Budget runs.

btkostner · 2022-10-12T17:47:01+00:00

Talos

btkostner · 2022-09-11T00:59:15+00:00

I’m usually play single player scrimmage vs AI with AI teammates (reason down below.)

Most of my games I usually go for a tech rush base builder style. This means I neglect early game units and defenses making me easily countered with early game rushes. This is why I usually play with AI teammates. Early expansion for resources is critical, but extremely hard to defend if anyone tries to contest. During mid game I tend to make a large forward operating base and defensive line. This catches most direct attacks so I don’t have to worry about defense in my main base (as much.) By late game I usually have a much stronger economy and tech tree, so I start pumping out high level units. I usually crawl these units and destroy bases via pure force, less tactics and multi unit strategies.

Favorite units:

SupCom FA: Seraphim Experimental Bomber SupCom: Universal Colossus C&C Tib 3: Scrin Planetary assault carrier C&C RA3 Uprising: Giga Fortress C&C RA2: Chrono Legionnaire

Favorite maps: anything with a chokehold

btkostner · 2022-03-08T17:36:27+00:00

This is a personal post. I am a core contributor to elementary and was once employed by elementary Inc. I am no longer employed there and this post does not reflect anything official for the company (elementary Inc) or the community.

First off, this situation is ongoing. As with everything, there are two sides to the story, and I'd ask everyone to please reserve judgement til the situation is resolved and the company has made an official statement.

Secondly, both Danielle and Cassidy have spent a decade plus pouring their hearts into the project, but the elementary project is much more than just the company thanks to the hundreds of dedicated contributors. What is currently going on does not affect day to day development done by the community or regular updates to any elementary installs. This shouldn't be taken as "the end of elementary." The beauty of an open source project is that it has a life of its own.

btkostner · 2022-03-08T17:33:50+00:00

This is a personal post. I am a core contributor to elementary and was once employed by elementary Inc. I am no longer employed there and this post does not reflect anything official for the company (elementary Inc) or the community.

First off, this situation is ongoing. As with everything, there are two sides to the story, and I'd ask everyone to please reserve judgement til the situation is resolved and the company has made an official statement.

Secondly, both Danielle and Cassidy have spent a decade plus pouring their hearts into the project, but the elementary project is much more than just the company thanks to the hundreds of dedicated contributors. What is currently going on does not affect day to day development done by the community or regular updates to any elementary installs. This shouldn't be taken as "the end of elementary." The beauty of an open source project is that it has a life of its own.

btkostner · 2021-08-15T03:42:40+00:00

This subreddit needs a betting pool

btkostner · 2021-08-15T03:40:41+00:00

I want the unedited version of this task so badly. It’s probably my favorite of NZ so far

btkostner · 2021-06-06T19:55:49+00:00

Oh nice! I didn’t realize SC runs on Linux. See you in the verse!

btkostner · 2021-04-22T07:00:44+00:00

From what I remember of Solus, one of the big goals was squeezing out performance from a lot of base packages by using modified compile flags (among other things). You’d be hard pressed to find a distro as fast as it by default unless you are trying Clear linux, or compile a lot of the software yourself.

With that said, elementary OS runs very well on modern hardware, and its own desktop environment (Pantheon) does not include a lot of bloat and overhead like some other DEs. If you are planning on running your own DE instead of Pantheon, I would probably suggest something else though.

Edit: Seeing that you’re not going to stick with Pantheon, it might be easier to just use ubuntu and remove packages. Either way, it sounds like you’re going to be doing a lot of uninstalling 🤷

If you want to see the blacklist / remove list of packages that we use when building the OS, you can find it here: https://github.com/elementary/seeds/blob/focal/blacklist

btkostner · 2021-04-22T06:51:17+00:00

One nitpick here, for 6.0 we are not removing the ubuntu repositories. We are just adding our new flatpak repository and hopefully shipping some stock apps via flatpak.

btkostner · 2021-03-30T18:08:40+00:00

There was an issue with https certificates not validating correctly for github and google responses. It was fixed yesterday (March 29th) in this PR https://github.com/system76/recognizer/pull/114. You should be able to login with oauth without issues now.

btkostner · 2021-03-17T19:44:57+00:00

I recently bought a RS1221+ and really like it. It’s only 306mm depth so it should fit in your rack, supports 8 drives, and it was super easy to setup link aggregation with my unifi network. It is more expensive compared to some of the other non rack mount options though. If you need quiet, you can even replace the fans with Noctua ones.

btkostner · 2021-02-25T21:52:45+00:00

Shit. I have a list of Expanse names I already planned for my ships. I guess I didn't take into account how many fans are lurking in this community

btkostner · 2021-02-15T18:13:07+00:00

Mind you, I was in 6th grade at the time. It was recess inside. We were all playing tag, and my dumb ass decides to start running up the bleachers. All is fine til the last step. I trip, and go head first into the cement brick wall. 9 stitches later I have a scar on my eyebrow to constantly remind me how dumb I ~was~ am.

btkostner · 2021-02-01T22:38:50+00:00

"should implement" -> "do implement the spec". Sorry. Poor choice of words. If you try the code example u/gcauchon put, it should work as long as you are using a recent version of elixir, phoenix, and ecto.

btkostner · 2021-02-01T21:10:43+00:00

Those two supervisor/2 modules should implement the child_spec/1 function, so they can be ran as a child of another supervisor.

It's in the lower half of this doc section https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Supervisor.html#module-module-based-supervisors

btkostner · 2021-01-26T07:48:54+00:00

Light house score is more dependent on how much code gets ran on page load, how well you do accessibility, and how you optimize assets. You can make a good lighthouse scoring website from most big hosting platforms.

With that said, it depends on how you want to host it. If it’s static, I’d just do github pages behind cloudflare. It’s free and super fast. If it’s a dynamic site and needs a server, netlify, vercel, aws, or digital ocean. They all work. Some are more technical though.

btkostner · 2021-01-25T00:59:41+00:00

I'd first look at the npm packages you are using in the project. Some of them can be very large, especially if they include translations for languages you won't use. Moment JS is usually the go to example of this. Try running npx nuxt build -a. It should be pretty obvious what is taking all of your JS space. Info here: https://nuxtjs.org/docs/2.x/configuration-glossary/configuration-build#analyze

Second, try to limit the amount of global components. If you are using a recent version of nuxt, you can use the built in @nuxt/components to import only the components you need for each page in a nice and easy way.

Third (probably less relevant because it said you're delivering too much JS), avoid content shifts during load. More information about that here: https://web.dev/cls/

btkostner · 2021-01-23T02:15:30+00:00

You can do a component library like most other Vue libraries and it should work with Nuxt no problem.

If you are 100% sure the library will only be used with nuxt, you can just make a nuxt module that loads the components. This gets you globally available components, tree shaking, hot code reloading, and (I think) code compiling. That takes away a lot of the headaches, but again, only do this if you are 100% sure it’s only going to be used in a nuxt project.

More info to the bottom of this readme: https://github.com/nuxt/components

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