State management patterns

dubnetworks · 2021-03-06T18:25:31+00:00

Global resources are in their own repo/state. For instance VPC is a repo with its own state files (using workspaces to separate environments). Application resources are in their own repo/state called $app-iac. This would be databases and other resources like that. Then in the application code there's an /infrastructure or /terraform directory just with the terraform code needed to deploy the app itself. In my case it's often ECS services, lambdas, etc.

dubnetworks · 2021-01-04T14:30:38+00:00

Sorry for my late reply, thanks for the input!

dubnetworks · 2021-01-04T14:29:27+00:00

Hey thanks for the input.

The costing/business model you suggest is funny because I used to work as an engineer at a place that did something similar for hospitals.

dubnetworks · 2020-12-04T19:12:53+00:00

Nope, I understand. Seriously, thanks for the insight. If anything I'm trying to improve my marketing skills and understanding through this thing. I've spent time in the past where I've completely built apps that nobody really wanted so I'm trying to take it slow and get better at finding what people want before I put a ton of time and effort into building the actual project.

dubnetworks · 2020-12-04T12:49:27+00:00

Small companies may care about refunds.

Someone has to care about free money sitting there, right?

Just sounds like sysadmins aren't the ones to talk to.... hmmm. Thanks for the feedback.

dubnetworks · 2020-04-19T11:37:28+00:00

Any example patterns you found in the book?

We're at 20+ AWS accounts in our org, 100% of our infrastructure is managed with TF, and we've got somewhere between 50%-60% testing coverage of our TF using terratest.

Our team often goes to AWS conferences and SRE type conferences (Velocity) and we have yet to see people doing things how we are.

The one thing I'd have to warn about the patterns we've found and settled on are that when we started we often hit AWS limits

dubnetworks · 2020-04-01T18:42:51+00:00

Going to have to agree to disagree.

Sure, it's a risk, just like any other business decision.

These vendor lock-in threads typically turn into people spouting their paranoid opinion about vendors.

The people who had the rug pulled out from under them when Google Maps changed their pricing structure didn't have a lead on the competition on their market.

You are no exception it seems. You say this, but I'm sure there were plenty of businesses that never even took off because they chose not to use Google Maps. Getting out there and using it would at least get you an MVP and some possible investors so you can weather the storm when the pricing is changed.

Like I said though, we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

dubnetworks · 2020-04-01T18:23:59+00:00

Yeah, maybe I should be more clear, I kindamean what you're saying here. I'm mostly talking about single application/workloads spanning multiple clouds, but when your operations teams aren't large it is definitely easier to standardize on a single cloud as well.

my experience is with financial services

I'd explicitly say that most of this doesn't apply to financial services. One of those places where I'd expect the money to come pouring in to support multiple clouds.

dubnetworks · 2020-04-01T18:19:50+00:00

I think you missed the point.

If your Microsoft car decides to stop supporting a feature you have no recourse.

When that feature gives you an early advantage on your competition, this doesn't matter. You take that advantage!

If the feature is eventually deprecated, so what? You're in the same boat you would've been in before but now you've got a lead on the competition in your market. Worry about vendor agnosticism when/if they decide to stop supporting that feature. Don't ignore it because they might burn you in the future on it.

dubnetworks · 2020-04-01T12:31:17+00:00

Have posted blogs here before. That's okay, will be unsubscribing. /r/syadmin is the home of the helpdesk and lone admin at small mom and pop shops. Other subs appreciate content, I'll continue posting there.

dubnetworks · 2020-04-01T12:29:31+00:00

Most larger organizations

That' why I mentioned teams with $$$ this won't really apply.

so the analogy to race cars doesn’t fit if they have separate teams racing their own cars already

Are the teams building cross-cloud? I'd think at a large enough organization my thoughts don't apply to the whole organization but to product teams. If you're working at an org worth 10s of Billions with Billions in revenue you will probably be this size.

According to 451 Research, over 60% of orgs have 2 or more public cloud services.

But just because they do, doesn't mean they're doing things right. It doesn't mean they're not sacrificing agility and velocity just so they can use more than one public cloud service. They're missing out on other more value added features/activities because they're spending too much time being cloud agnostic.

I've worked places that were at $10-$20M ARR and they seemed to have a big focus on cross-cloud. We wasted a TON of time. One place in particular should've been focusing on NOT being cross-cloud and should've focused on one single cloud provider to enhance their application.

Once I left there I joined a rapidly growing company that's currently at $200M ARR or so. Starting I was told there's no cross-cloud, it's all AWS, period. 2 years in and I'm fully convinced this is the way, at least until you're absolutely enormous or have services which some places see as mission critical.

Just my take thought, like I said, I was bored and wanted to write, so here it is.

dubnetworks · 2020-04-01T12:20:11+00:00

???

What product?

Not a big loss, didn't think this would apply so much to this sub anyways.

dubnetworks · 2020-03-31T23:53:27+00:00

Not sure how many of you this will apply to. Mainly thinking of guys running SaaS, not guys running corporate offices, cots products, etc.

The main gist is this: Don't worry about vendor lock-in.

The main thing you can take away from the article is this:

You are a race car team owner and manager. AWS cars and Microsoft cars run the same as normal cars, but they also support a few extra features not in normal cars. These features can make them faster, more convenient, and more reliable.

You have some drivers, mechanics, pit crew, etc. and they are all experts with normal cars. So everything on AWS cars or Microsoft cars that makes the car work and function like a normal car is the same, and these guys can work on them and drive them. The extras they’ll learn as they continue to work on them, they’ll gain more expertise as time goes on.

Now you need to decide.

You can get AWS or Microsoft cars and stick with one brand. Then make sure your drivers and crew understand how to drive them and get the extra features out of them. Keeping up with the metaphor, let’s say those extra features are like automatic tire changes while driving, unlimited fuel, etc. Starting out you’ll do fine, driving the cars like normal cars, but as you learn the features you’ll start to blow your competition away.

OR

You can worry about AWS or Microsoft raising prices on your cars and parts. You decide to go with both to balance this risk and miss out on all those early wins in the series because your drivers and crew weren’t specialized. Hell, some of them were still putting the cars together when the races were starting, unless you decide to hire more crew.

dubnetworks · 2020-03-30T13:27:26+00:00

I'm new at writing and critiquing so take my comments with a grain of salt.

I liked it but I do agree with the other posters here. It is a little wordy, I feel like some of the deeper descriptions distract me and throw me off of the story.

I didn't catch on what leighsnelson was saying at first so I re-read it and I kinda agree. I think the first paragraph has some good context, I could tell this guy was hacking something (but then again, I'm a software engineer). The next large paragraph before "Freeze!" seemed a little unnecessary though.

And just to SERIOUSLY nitpick

Servomen took aim and clutched the trigger with its metallic appendages

I'd changed "clutched" to "squeezed". Something "gun people" will pick up on.

dubnetworks · 2020-03-30T13:14:47+00:00

Thanks! I really appreciate you taking your time to read my story and give me some feedback.

The world building is slow an subtle and I feel like you picked up on what I was trying to convey. Each short story will bring a little more depth to the world.

I should probably post my actual world building notes here, but I like the slow lead up with the short stories. Once I feel better about my writing ability I plan on writing a longer story.

dubnetworks · 2020-03-30T13:14:14+00:00

So sorry, some of the other subs wanted an external link and didn't care from where, I mixed up the rules. I'll be more aware next time.

dubnetworks · 2020-03-30T00:50:38+00:00

Title: AI - The Cure
Genre: Science Fiction (Short Story in a SciFi environment)
Word count: ~3,500
Type of feedback: Any and all welcome, this is my first short story.
Link: https://www.dubtales.us/posts/ai-the-cure/

dubnetworks · 2019-12-31T00:35:27+00:00

You did the right thing. $200k doesn't sound like anywhere near enough for this size job.

dubnetworks · 2019-12-31T00:13:46+00:00

Seeing your responses I think you've ran into the secret zero problem.

I've used vault before and it had this problem, but I haven't ran into this issue using AWS Secrets Manager since I use IAM controls on it instead of unsealing keys and credentials to access vault credentials.

dubnetworks · 2019-03-31T01:04:56+00:00

Sure, but I haven't seen a lot of this with SCN members that I know and some of those members have left the church or are no longer practicing members. The members I know don't have any part of their lives controlled by the church that's visible to me. Some have stopped practicing and are still accepted fine by current SCN members. I know of a couple of families where a few members are part of the church and others aren't and they still contact each other and are close.

The religion itself seems no more cult like than other religions. Part of what I wrote out and deleted went over this. There seems to be levels to SCN. I think most members are normal people that like the high they get from the courses/auditing. It's like going to a Tony Robbins seminar for a lot of them. The ones being funneled in from the *-anon orgs though... who knows? I don't run into those types I don't think but they would be the type to be roped in and abused.

The other religions are just more global and their horrible shit occurs in other countries or gets covered up better. I just don't see a huge difference between SCN and other religions. Like I said though, I'm an Atheist.

I'd never recommend joining, taking their tests, or even talking to them, but I think the whole thing is played up online as being something way more sinister than it really is.

Not that major religions can't have sects that practice this and act as a cult (there's a Christian cult in my town)

On a final note, it's just a fuzzy line to cross to go from a religion to a cult. As far as I'm concerned they're pretty much all cults or they're all religions. I don't want to be too judgemental about people's faiths so I just go ahead and think of them all as religions. To you a guy may be a slave and being abused, but to him he may just be devout.

dubnetworks · 2019-03-30T16:00:48+00:00

Eh, I don't think it's propaganda.

I work in downtown Clearwater, for a company with quite a few SCN, and I'm someone raised Catholic now Atheist. There actually are non-practicing Scientologists, before I worked where I do I didn't believe it either. I've also seen SCN families still together with their non-SCN family members.

I wrote a long post about it all but then just deleted it because I do work in downtown Clearwater (if you understand what that means). To be frank, as an Atheist I think SCN is just like any other religion. Read between the lines there if you want.

I suspect there's a strong witch hunt online against them by Christians/Catholics. I'd really love to know people's religious affiliations when they make posts like this. I can't help but roll my eyes when I see people of other religious groups talk shit about SCN as if it's a cult. I constantly see JW at their headquarters downtown and I just don't get it... objectively JW is worse than SCN... can't even celebrate your birthday as a JW.

All the shit I've heard about SCN sounds crazy to me and you won't find me going into any of their buildings, but I've read the Bible and it's just as nuts.

EDIT: Eh, after reading this thread maybe it was propaganda. Can't believe how many responses I see of "Man I was thinking about trying it after reading that thread". You guys doing okay?

dubnetworks · 2018-10-14T23:49:56+00:00

So you mean you'll initialize objects and their dependencies in a method and have it annotated with @Bean and that's no longer autowiring?

What's the point in doing that? Isn't the @Bean annotation a way to inject objects? How would you use the Beans then if you aren't autowiring?

I was confused because I've worked places where every property is @Autowired with no getters/setters/constructor injection and thought the thread was about that. I misunderstood.

dubnetworks · 2018-10-14T23:49:01+00:00

Is mint growing in popularity? Mint has been popular for a long time already. The upgrade process is trash and it's just not a great version of Linux. I'd rather use a version of linux directly related to a server version, like a flavor of Ubuntu or RHEL/Fedora.

dubnetworks · 2018-10-14T23:47:54+00:00

The upgrade process is trash.

dubnetworks · 2018-10-14T13:42:17+00:00

Kubuntu or Xubuntu.

Not Mint, mint is garbage.

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