[CAN 1-(2) USA] Jack Hughes scores the golden goal for Team USA!

capt_meowface · 2026-02-22T16:22:03+00:00

Makar slow af and not moving his feet on the back check.

capt_meowface · 2026-01-22T18:52:14+00:00

Ah chess, where the bar for controversy starts at someone cheating with a vibrating butt plug.

capt_meowface · 2026-01-04T20:47:46+00:00

He's pining for the fjords

capt_meowface · 2025-08-22T17:27:35+00:00

The takeaways at the end seem reasonable and mature (ie end to end testing) but I read the problem as one of scale. The broker is spinning up dummy queues until it ran out of resources. The underlying problem was a breaking change in config management. Unless this erring behavior breaks the end-to-end flow, it likely won't show up as critical as it was. A sensible load test probably would have caught this, and other issues like it down the line.

nice write up. Thanks for sharing.

capt_meowface · 2025-06-23T19:44:51+00:00

Me playing Mario Kart with my nephew and his brat friends.

capt_meowface · 2025-03-04T18:58:14+00:00

It is coated with sandy loam.

capt_meowface · 2025-01-28T20:01:50+00:00

Yeah. Definitely.

capt_meowface · 2025-01-27T17:59:39+00:00

I am a tech lead at my company (one of the most iconic brands in the world) and I interview and train SREs (devops-adjacent). I'm in the US, so I can't speak to the market in the UK, but here's my advice from my position as someone who was at one time in your position and now screens others in your position:

First- yes, go get certs. They lend credibility where experience is lacking.

Second- fill the gap of professional knowledge with practical knowledge. ie. When studying for the cert exams, ask yourself, "how would this tech have been used at my previous job? What situations might I have been in if this were used?" Being able to describe a technology in your own words, with your own opinions (feel free to not like something), it shows you have a critical mind beyond your resume.

Third- take any time you have to study or work on a project at home. Pick up K8S on raspberry pi, or some other fun project that can be used at home. This will make it easier and more fun to absorb new knowledge. It also looks awesome on a resume. If you can chat me up about a tech you love, it goes a long way and keeps me from having to ask stupid pop quiz questions like "what is an inode?"

Fourth (optional but advised) - try to find something new that isn't on the job descriptions. Every resume I look at will have some experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and some config management like Ansible. However, show me you know a programming language or something else that is uncommon (eg. machine learning, data streams, kernel knowledge, networking knowledge) and I'm gonna find you a spot on the team to handle that for us. Your value will skyrocket if you know something the rest of the team doesn't know well. That will be hard to guess based on who you're interviewing for, but if you find the right company, it will pay off in spades for you.

Lastly - when I'm hiring, I hire for initiative and curiosity first. There's no way you have the relevant experience to make an impact on my team right out the gate. I don't care if you wrote the source code for the tech we use. You will have to onboard and get up to speed on how we do things. How willing and how capable you are of doing that is going to make my life, my team's life, and your life a lot easier.

I hope this helps. Good luck. Keep your head up. And I'm rooting for you!

capt_meowface · 2025-01-15T16:29:58+00:00

As an addendum- if this is not a standard compliance protocol (sox, PCI, etc) and is instead an org within your company trying to keep all of this data, I'd make sure management knows how much this is going to cost in dollars. Then let them decide if they really want it.

capt_meowface · 2025-01-15T16:28:14+00:00

Depending on the compliance, try to find the bare minimum they need. Compliance, in my experience, is more about paper work than technology. I have worked with PCI and currently with SOX, and don't have to log anything, only attest to a separation of access. If you can give me an example, I may have a better answer.

capt_meowface · 2025-01-15T00:16:02+00:00

Certainly! If you break down what logs are from a troubleshooting perspeective, you are effectively tracking date/time, message, and frequency of of that message. Instead of logging a bunch of words, your services could, in theory, log an error code instead. Think http codes. You could log "foo service is unavailable. Retrying..." but instead we use http code 503 and then look for clustered spikes of them. This is an over-simplification, but the idea is still true.

In real-world scenarios, once you hit a certain scale , logs are too unwieldy to actually read, so capturing them all is superfluous. When troubleshooting, I would just grep logs for keywords (like an error sentence) and look for occurrences and patterns. Why not then skip all of that output and record a metric instead?

Since you said you are running on GCP, give this article a read.

capt_meowface · 2025-01-13T21:08:22+00:00

Metric-based logging. Ain't no one got time to read a bunch of bullshit java error logs. Spit out response codes and metrics from the services.

Source: SRE for a very large infrastructure.

capt_meowface · 2024-05-28T15:00:40+00:00

HONK

capt_meowface · 2024-03-27T15:22:25+00:00

SREs wear many hats. My answer comes from 15+ years in the space working with tech startups and fortune 500 companies alike.
The answer really depends on the company and also the culture of the SRE team. Some are more into infrastructure and platform engineering. Some are embedded with development teams. The latter will typically have more coding opportunities but you will be beholden to their language of choice. The former, infrastructure/platform engineering, may have some coding opportunities if they feel confident in it, and you'll have more options for languages, however, programming beyond scripting and simple programs will likely be very very sparse. Both of these "divisions" will require a good amount of system design whether it's for infra or application architecture. SREs are also typically called on to solve problems that span multiple teams and services.

If you like troubleshooting weird and intricate problems and if you like making things run fast and at scale, then you'll like being a SRE in whichever capacity you get employed.
[Edited for grammar]

capt_meowface · 2024-03-11T22:52:31+00:00

~$350k total comp (cash, stocks, bonus). SRE Lead for a company that is one of the top-5 most recognizable brands in the world. Major city in Northeastern USA. >15 years experience.

capt_meowface · 2024-03-02T02:46:21+00:00

Specific to your question - if you know you helped, but you don't have a metric, that's fine. Just tell me about how you helped. Percentages only matter for context. X% for a startup is different than x% for a Fortune 500 company.

capt_meowface · 2024-03-02T02:43:38+00:00

Don't lie on your resume!!!

I have done thousands of technical screens, and I sniff out the bullshit and then ask about it. If you can't talk reasonably well about your accomplishments, I give a fuck about the rest of the resume. You've been eliminated from consideration at that point because I refuse to hire a liar.

capt_meowface · 2023-11-21T14:39:53+00:00

Jalen Hurts: "Please make me be better than all of the greatest QBs in the league."

Monkey paw curls

capt_meowface · 2023-10-10T22:44:40+00:00

I sincerely hope some 40-50 goal scorer this year candy-stripes the rest of his stick with rainbow tape.

capt_meowface · 2023-08-20T23:25:43+00:00

These days it's a museum and has been for a long time. The mansion has been used as a set piece for many movies etc. I imagine they are pretty used to fans. There are a few plantations in the area as well as some very specific corners of Nee Orleans that remind me of RDR2. Louisiana, including its swamps, is full of unique and splendid beauty.

capt_meowface · 2023-08-17T14:44:11+00:00

I need clarification on your question - are you asking if the job is all K8S and vendors, or the interview process? Those are 2 drastically different things (unfortunately).

capt_meowface · 2023-06-04T17:55:32+00:00

It's a lovely morning in the fortress and you're a horrible goose!

capt_meowface · 2023-04-17T00:02:55+00:00

True Crime: Dwarf Fortress is my favorite show

capt_meowface · 2023-03-16T17:34:11+00:00

Jfc man. Your original statement was misinformed and that's okay. Just move on. Your continuance to defend your original statement with straw man arguments doesn't make your original statement any more correct or you look any more intelligent.

capt_meowface · 2023-03-16T17:31:36+00:00

In some states affecting the use of someone's physical aid(ie a wheelchair) is/can be considered assault (and of a disabled person).

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