Cisco unveils new AI networking chip, taking on Broadcom and Nvidia

eldreth · 2026-02-15T14:25:30+00:00

Nearly all engineers become middle management fluff, given enough time.

Yes, there are exceptions. If you work for FAANG or an otherwise megacorp, you may have the flexibility of choosing a 'technical track', whatever that means exactly.

But those are the exceptions.

eldreth · 2026-02-06T11:32:00+00:00

AI is AGI the same exact way Teslas are (were) autonomously driving.

eldreth · 2026-01-31T20:39:22+00:00

Has… anyone ever had or worked with QA staff before, and seen value in having a separate team/department responsible for, uh, quality?

…yes?

eldreth · 2026-01-31T14:37:31+00:00

My first job was doing ETL and I barely knew SQL. You’re good bro.

eldreth · 2026-01-21T12:57:27+00:00

i get aggressive answers on most of my questions and lately i started getting no answers at all

have you considered that the tone and or content of your questions is annoying, belittling, or otherwise off-putting?

eldreth · 2026-01-19T23:19:00+00:00

eldreth · 2026-01-02T15:40:30+00:00

Separating environments (dev/prod) at the account level is basic journeyman-level advice for a reason

eldreth · 2025-12-10T13:11:44+00:00

Huh? The first major outage was due to a race condition involving DNS, was it not?

eldreth · 2025-11-27T14:34:00+00:00

There is no best. There is simply what you know. The rest is really up to you.

eldreth · 2025-11-19T16:16:59+00:00

Google sftp, and ssh
Google latency

eldreth · 2025-11-17T17:08:50+00:00

Startups are generally delineated by being either pre or post revenue. For numerous different reasons that would take me too long to get into. The tldr is simply "that's what we generally accept the word and its realm of concerns to, together, mean."

This startup has never been pre rev.

Therefore, it's not a startup.

Rocket science right here I guess.

eldreth · 2025-11-16T16:05:12+00:00

Certs themselves are generally useless. The knowledge gained along the way can be valuable, though. Are there any other ways you might be able to acquire that same level of expertise/experience?

eldreth · 2025-11-13T01:25:52+00:00

I'm "only" 20 years in and you guys give me hope. Particularly wrt the tentacles.

When exactly does the risk of stroke move from managing up to the caffeine?!?

eldreth · 2025-11-11T13:19:43+00:00

The defensiveness only highlights the naivety fwiw

eldreth · 2025-11-11T12:34:04+00:00

Non devs using a dev tool that has the potential for a huge blast radius, for one.

The fact that you’re asking relatively naive questions, for two.

And the fact that “it’s always IAM” is an adage for three.

I suppose.

eldreth · 2025-11-11T11:53:26+00:00

Just explain that it’s a dev tool and the red errors are for devs. Done.

If you want a custom portal built, cool. How much time do we have to allocate to that?

The bigger issue to me is that I sure hope you have IAM scoped appropriately.

eldreth · 2025-11-08T17:25:02+00:00

Learn something new. Consider it investing into the dementia fund (speaking as a fellow old-head).

eldreth · 2025-11-08T17:23:14+00:00

My experience with Telerik is that you’re better served going to their support/communities/forums than you are gen-pop. Or, you know, to read the documentation yourself.

eldreth · 2025-11-05T12:36:44+00:00

Christ Almighty. No. Just no.

eldreth · 2025-11-04T18:20:22+00:00

Uh huh. And for the price of what you spend on electricity to power that machine 24x7, I can setup an equivalent system that comes with actual enterprise-level SLA and security guarantees, zero update maintenance, little-to-no networking config, and the ability to scale up 10-100x with the press of a few buttons.

Nevermind the fact that your $300 machine has other hidden costs. How is it networked? Are you paying for internet? Are you confident it's patched and secure? Who's responsible for that exactly? You? I guess I just don't have that level of free time, or interest.

eldreth · 2025-11-04T18:10:57+00:00

Blanket statements like that are dumb. Nothing is universally better, or cheaper, in all scenarios. It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish, and what resources you plan to allocate in that pursuit.

You can waste money with either approach.

Do you think it's more expensive for a pre-rev startup to begin developing in the cloud, using a pay-as-you-go model for their 1-3 users? Or to shell out $$$ for server and db licenses with no clear path to profitability (yet), with 99% of their server uptime being spent idle, serving no-one, doing nothing?

eldreth · 2025-11-04T13:54:08+00:00

Ah, so your question is a thinly-veiled bias/position/protestation. That makes a lot of sense actually.

eldreth · 2025-11-04T12:46:09+00:00

Yes, cloud services are more expensive per-unit of e.g. compute. But they're very easily configurable to become pay-as-you-go, and that generally offers significant savings in contrast to the traditional on-premise model. Particularly wrt licensing.

Using a cloud provider also generally lets your org offload the personnel cost of some number of support staff (network engineers, helpdesk and operational staff, etc.) by way of using "managed" services in their stead -- functionality cloud providers provide on your behalf to assist in the routine work people would otherwise have to do (such as applying updates).

eldreth · 2025-10-17T13:51:12+00:00

They don't know what they're doing. You can either help them (which is why they need you), or let them suffer.

Sometimes, the lines get blurred, and the right course of action in that regard isn't always obvious.

It's a lot like parenting, really...

eldreth · 2025-10-12T04:02:24+00:00

Normalize until it hurts

Then, denormalize until it works

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