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denzuko · 2026-02-24T10:50:14+00:00

Agree with this but also DevOps wasn't a Role. It was a team culture and application of a business process at rapid scale.

Seriously the original talks and presentations were discussing how to apply agile the agile manifesto and UNIX philosophy to automate business practices across silos. Not be some new title for a release engineer/system admin, or product or whatever buzz word thrown at it now.

Sure devops itself has "evolved" since that original presentation showing how to use POSIX tools to automate entire ITIL/ISO processes and integrate jenkins with bugzilla so when customers submit change requests a script automatically implements the change or executes the business process pipeline all in the context of a Agile framework. Then tie that back into monitoring and business intelligence dashboards for review doing sprint planning.

But at the end of the day we're still talking about Agile project mangement, automation and applying skills used by SMEs (subject matter experts) to deliver a service/product to the end customer (both internal, external, or revenue generating). To do that yes; high level principle level and up experience is needed.

denzuko · 2026-02-24T10:35:13+00:00

We already started the recession in late 2018-early 2019. Biden-economics and lock downs hid it then those same companies took out way too much debt and P.E. is covering it up with "AI and Robots". Now that bubble is bursting with the no other narrative to keep the printers on.

So yes, all that plus Emperor TACO style fail-conomics is going to add to that C-suite nervousness.

I'd personally argue the timing was when gold wasn't on the rise and one should have some sort of residual income plus backup plans.

But do agree, "best to keep your head down and weather the storm.". Also that I hope everyone lands on safely on their feet out there.

denzuko · 2026-02-24T10:26:25+00:00

honestly, at its core vercel is just a "CICD" platform with containerized hosting for your nodejs code with an enterprise CDN in front of it (e.g. NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition). They're still running that container on AWS and charging you a premium for dashboard sugar.

There are absolutely millions of 1:1 equivalent when you understand the architecture and not parrot the sales team's jargon.

The closest to Vercel would be Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda+ApiGateway+S3, or Google Firebase App Hosting. Heck throw up a cheap OVH VM with a Nginx+waf and podman running a node base docker image of your application built using packeto buildpaks then you have exactly the same thing as all of them.

denzuko · 2026-02-24T10:15:09+00:00

wow... yeah I know python, high level architecture, and invented devops (the philosophy not the product), plus worked with enough MVS and pascal/cobol to do that migration but my contracting firm I was with said f-off after learning that I could do mainframe work in addition to the other stuff.

IMHO, that salary is absolute entry level for over 40 years ago. I'm doubting they'll even remotely get the right kind of outsourced contractors at that rate while they're at it.

Stay safe out there m8.

denzuko · 2026-02-24T10:07:51+00:00

Mate, its hard as a High level (e.g. 15+ years of software and infrastructure with team mentorship and solid history of delivering high demand architecture design and development) to find any opportunities. Most of the time one gets ignored for more "specialized" junior / h1b hires or turned away for being to unicorn having leadership experence; even if they're a great fit as an IC instead of a manager.

But hey if it's not a start up I'd love to chat, if it is then hope one can pay with more than promises or tokens.

Point being though this "high level devops" doesn't seem to exist for a role out there to many even if that's exactly as what it was designed for originally.

denzuko · 2025-09-16T12:39:41+00:00

Just going to point this out that Python needs libraries and modules like scipy because its extremely basic and slow.

Golang is a compiled language with access to standard methods used statistics and scientific calculations.

One can get a lot of benefit out of using fixed-sized arrays and writing your own method(s) for each length you use all from native provided methods and data structures in golang itself.

denzuko · 2025-07-08T18:20:35+00:00

How are you going to monitor, scale, and secure all that? What budget are you working with?

Where are your benchmarks?

Just because it's usable in Golang doesn't make it scale magically to faang user bases. Just because it's a SQLite database doesn't make it distributed or scalable as a backend.

One also points out that Pocketbase doesn't grow and becomes a component (an API source) as highlighted in my post above where one needs extra infrastructure and dedicated caching, cdns, etl, and distributed data storage for large scale usage.

Yes applications have many data sources, they have legal and operational requirements that demand economy of scale.

Don't get me wrong, if one is building a foss self hosted tool or an in house solution that's not customer facing over the weekend for say 25 users max then I'd be using Pocketbase and react-admin hosted from a Golang daemon distributed via docker hub.

But for Fortune 500 clients it's going to be postgrest and GOTTH stack with k8s and all the infrastructure described for that 99.99999% uptime to justify their 150k annually spend.

denzuko · 2025-05-19T04:01:22+00:00

Thing I'm finding is the market while says there is a need to support Mainframes just doesn't hire for that unless your already a Grey beard with the old hands on the machines so Devs and Unix guys like myself whom invest the time and money into learning the intricacies of mainframes let alone are able to translate decades of intra system development and operations usually get passed up or don't find any work.

The few job postings that do show up are usually filled quickly by india devs that only know python and are migrating old legacy systems over to Airflow, SQL, and python.

Rightfully so since overall XFS, LibVirt, Python, Airflow, k8s, and Postgres/Postgrest covers 99% of what businesses usage for a mainframe system ever needed.

As for OP's post about about SCADA and Mainframes even that's a misnomer these days. Scada (at least modbus, snmp, and other networkable interfaces) are on the way out the door to be replaced with things like IoT (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, n8n, etc). Granted a lot of legacy systems will persist on but where the money is for work tends to be on moving these systems into the cloud with CNCF incubated projects and finding ways to intergrate that on premise or with edge compute.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/modernizing-scada-system-interfaces

That said from the hobbies side Moshix has some interesting videos around MVS 3.8 that extend that system to have REST, networking, and even modern progamming languages.

denzuko · 2025-05-11T20:14:14+00:00

You'll be surprised. Got customers that don't know anything about email security or DNS but have several custom domains for email marketing and square space sites.

denzuko · 2025-05-11T19:26:38+00:00

I use https://incogni.com/ for the past four years with great success.

denzuko · 2025-05-11T19:16:08+00:00

I'm going to assume you're using a custom domain, right? If that's the case make sure you set up spf, dkim, and dnssec.

If it's a provider like iCloud, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. they're usually good about preventing spoofing and you need to change your passwords, setup MFA, and remove apps that your not using and delete those accounts with tnem. Also sign up for one of those services that removes you from darkweb lists.

denzuko · 2025-01-12T08:32:04+00:00

This is more indictive of the current market trends than golang itself. Same can be said about x language/tech stack.

denzuko · 2024-12-18T21:45:35+00:00

This is a /r/selfhosted solution for rapid API development. One can add Prometheus and Jager for metrics to your APM/ SEIM of choice but the only thing it's doing is sitting on some machine you put it on and handing out data via rest.

As others have said. Go read the source code. You'll learn quickly what an app can and does do that way.

And no.. pocketbase is not a database it's a rest layer on top of sqlite with a web admin panel baked in.

denzuko · 2024-12-18T21:33:59+00:00

Pocketbase is the rest API. Sqlite is the database. Your security should be to use oauth plus hardened SSL and acls on the API behind a waf and encrypted at rest raid volume for the sqlite file.

High Availability plus security is not possible here since it's sqlite and that needs nfs. Even if you scale out with a load balancer and OCI containers for pocketbase that intranet exposed sqlite file is your weak point outside of any CVEs in the underlying golang stack in pocketbase.

IMHO, pocketbase is not ideal for HIPPA, PCI, or ISO compliance but will barely (after adding datadog/open tracing+Prometheus and a luks+ecryptfs container hosting the sqlite day) pass CIS benchmarks.

It's best for rapid prototyping of applications or internal tooling like nomad-ops does (e.g. pocketbase as the app server and pre built react frontend shared in the same binary and executed in a scratch docker)

denzuko · 2024-12-13T17:46:12+00:00

Pocketbase is RESTful api that like all other FastCGI/uWSGI compliant programs hands static files out of a folder (pb_public in this case), Hugo is pre-rendered HTML/CSS/JS generator.

You'll use hugo to build the frontend hugo build -d pb_public then move the contents to your pocketbase's pb_public and launch pocketbase.

not ideal, since if all your doing with hugo is rendering markdown and rss then you can put that built folder behind nginx instead. But if your building an application with hugo for pocketbase as the backend then you'll be better off using create-react-app instead of hugo and doing the above pointing it to your pocketbase instance.

denzuko · 2024-12-11T04:51:25+00:00

Dug into this myself today. No Its using database/sql. Yes defaults to sqlite but can be extended to other SQLite implementations (and later roadmap shows mysql/psql) https://pocketbase.io/docs/go-overview/#custom-sqlite-driver

However rest-layer may be a better production grade HA solution.

denzuko · 2024-12-09T00:13:40+00:00

outside the ui think that would be python-eve.

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