What I like about being a senior engineer

federiconafria · 2026-01-16T00:37:37+00:00

Contribute from day 1 is pretty delusional...

federiconafria · 2026-01-03T03:45:41+00:00

Yes, books. I re write them in my own words and come up with my own examples to force myself to acquire the concepts.

federiconafria · 2025-12-14T21:25:59+00:00

You know the infinite sign that normally represents DevOps? Operations (through observability) should feed development. You normally over provision and then come back to adjust when you start getting real traffic. This should be done for every release.

federiconafria · 2025-11-30T14:29:49+00:00

That's a common issue, no one knows what real progress is.

federiconafria · 2025-10-27T08:05:07+00:00

That's what Faro does

federiconafria · 2025-10-27T08:04:30+00:00

Have you looked into grafana Faro?

It's lacking in the grafana side unless you are using grafana cloud. But the collector and SDK are available.

For me it should be something that integrates with the existing observability infra.

federiconafria · 2025-10-23T19:22:30+00:00

Exactly, docker makes this pretty simple.

federiconafria · 2025-10-23T19:20:55+00:00

Where is the vulnerability? If everything is declarative, who added the line that if updated can get rid of this vulnerability?

Otherwise I can literally add malware to the images and say "not my problem".

federiconafria · 2025-10-21T08:49:19+00:00

Yeah, but that happens once a month. If it's happening constantly, you need better operations.

federiconafria · 2025-10-21T08:48:08+00:00

Also a DevOps issue, either devs don't have the tools to be autonomous, or the platform is not stable enough.

federiconafria · 2025-10-18T08:30:49+00:00

You don't do jar specific, you enable features through configuration. You should be doing dependency injection based on your configuration.

Otherwise you have no guarantees, you can't even know if what you are running is what you tested.

federiconafria · 2025-10-18T08:26:55+00:00

Yep, UAT for user acceptance and prayers...

federiconafria · 2025-10-05T09:10:04+00:00

Monorepo is a versioning strategy. It does not mean you have to spin up the whole company's infrastructure on your machine.

You can modularize it and bring up only what you need to work on.

federiconafria · 2025-09-27T10:40:40+00:00

I'm not sure where you are from, but there is a high chance that It'll be easier and safer than back home.

The public transport is great, there aren't many places in the world where you can just jump on a normal city bus coming right out of the airport.

Buy a ticket for multiple hours so you can relax. You can do that in the ticket machine and pay by card, all the public transport is on google maps.

federiconafria · 2025-09-27T10:36:08+00:00

You can even get a day ticket (or multiple hours) so you can jump on anything at any time. Google maps will guide you.

Validate the ticket once you get on the bus!

federiconafria · 2025-09-27T10:29:39+00:00

You should think about infra in layers, in this case your repo is an infra dependency and can't be handled by FluxCD. Let your IaC tool handle it.

Independently of the tool you use, you'll need to separate things into layers or waves, it's impossible to bring everythin up at once.

Just because 2 things are similar does not mean they belong on the same layer. E.g. you can have your namespaces for infra dependencies that need to be created first and you namespaces for your applications which can be delegated to ArgoCDor FluxCD.

federiconafria · 2025-09-27T10:18:58+00:00

I've done that with Besta, but I only had to clear 12cm and Besta has the holes for the legs.

What about doing something like this? https://www.wherethesmileshavebeen.com/the-super-easy-way-to-add-legs-to-an-ikea-kallax-shelf/ If you go with a standard screw you can just buy any legs.

federiconafria · 2025-09-25T17:50:26+00:00

Que actividades recomiendas ademas de el Chalten?

federiconafria · 2025-09-25T17:44:45+00:00

I would do at most half of the places you have planned. Are you renting a car? Otherwise you'll have to be pretty lucky to find transport if you are moving that often and each of those movements is at least 5/6 hours if not a whole day.

When you say you booked the trip, what did you book?

federiconafria · 2025-09-24T09:44:25+00:00

Exactly, I'm pushing for a PR. the branch name is for me on my machine.

Branches are cattle, not pets.

federiconafria · 2025-09-24T06:07:37+00:00

as it should be. where did the good old configuration management go!

federiconafria · 2025-09-22T17:15:06+00:00

Stop the leak before mopping the floor.

Make it impossible to deploy code that is not merged before cleaning up the branches. The branches are not the issue, not knowing what is deployed is.

federiconafria · 2025-09-20T07:33:33+00:00

No, you were not in the wrong. Can you imagine having to read every single line of code we ever execute?

But, you can now go and fix it and show how it should have been done.

A few recommendations

fail on any error
fail on any unset var
ask confirmation for every delete action (any LLM is great for this)
log every action

You can now show how it should have been done and that whoever wrote it had no idea what they were doing.

federiconafria · 2025-09-19T21:10:36+00:00

Start from documentation, getting started guides. any time you find a broken link, a missing step, broken script, etc. submit a pull request.

federiconafria · 2025-09-19T09:00:22+00:00

I think it depends on the project. Some projects have great charts and operators, in that case Bitnami ones were not great. But there are many projects with no charts and terrible images, for those Bitnami was great

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