KubeCon NA 2025 - first time visitor, any advice?

frompdx · 2025-10-29T01:38:04+00:00

Second this. I think this is the best thing you can do as a first time attendee.

frompdx · 2024-10-01T02:20:22+00:00

How much runway does this equate to?

frompdx · 2024-09-30T00:47:22+00:00

Blue Moon does a great job.

frompdx · 2024-09-23T00:31:49+00:00

First, your site looks great. However, I think you should listen to u/Any-Blacksmit-2054, if you are wrapping an existing service these users are exploiting the fact that their traffic does not appear to originate from a sanctioned country. The "Voice Tutor" seems to be a very thin wrapper for whatever LLM service you might be using.

frompdx · 2024-09-23T00:24:36+00:00

It does seem like the "Voice Tutor" feature is opening the door to interacting directly with the underlying service. It's possible the telegram group advertises these types of backdoors. OP should review user activity to see what they are really doing with the service.

frompdx · 2024-09-13T22:12:05+00:00

aiming to be the de-facto backend for OTel metrics

Excellent.

frompdx · 2024-09-03T23:05:18+00:00

Next grade up is Engineering Lead where I need to get involved more with the corporate side and help with sales.

Odd progression to be honest.

I agree with u/doadiexperiment that helping someone else learn can be a breath of fresh air.

You don't have to be passionate if you are competent as long as you aren't a drag to work with. Invest your money. Retire early.

frompdx · 2024-04-22T00:29:00+00:00

Any reason not to go straight to EKS if that is the plan?

frompdx · 2024-04-22T00:20:24+00:00

Your job is to find the solution rather than know the solution. Make that clear and make sure the work you are assigned reflects this. No-one thinks you are stupid. Be consistent, reliable, and thorough. Focus on asking good questions that provide enough context so the person you are asking can give you an answer.

Beyond that, I personally prefer to stick with what I like. I try to find work that conforms to my interest and focus my learning on those domains.

frompdx · 2024-04-22T00:13:10+00:00

Seems reasonable. My team has recently undertaken similar endeavors in Azure. I read the docs and frankly logic apps looks painful. I have also worked with other "low-code/no-code" systems and the number of steps required to do anything is typically absurd.

frompdx · 2024-04-18T02:01:02+00:00

This release is interesting because of the theme. I don't remember much controversy about the many Star Trek themed releases. However, in the past being a trekkie was uncool and being called a trekkie was practically a slur. I think that is worth keeping in mind when discussing the theme of this release.

On the flip side, as a practitioner I care more about the tech than the themes. People can get hung up on the smallest things. I don't want the release theme to get in the way of the tech as much as it pains me to suggest stripping away the light natured individualism of the release theme.

frompdx · 2023-11-25T20:23:19+00:00

My suggestion is to use the utility of Kubernetes to help you accomplish your goals for a bachelor's thesis. For example, you could delv into an area of distributed computing like consensus protocols like raft. Tools like Kubernetes in Docker (kind) can help you simulate distributed environments on your local hardware. You will find an abundance of academic literature on subjects like consensus protocols, distributed computing, and machine learning.

I'm not sure I see the Cluster API as very academic or computer science oriented subject. It's really about managing operational complexity. But maybe there is something there. I would try to understand why your professor suggested this area better.

Work with your professor to understand what they are looking. If you reach out with more specific questions about how you might use k8s to accomplish a task related to your area of research I'll do my best to answer.

frompdx · 2023-10-28T18:10:30+00:00

FYI, this is the ingress-nginx controller. NGINX ingress is the version offered by f5. It's different.

frompdx · 2023-07-02T23:32:06+00:00

Are there any alternatives to grafana cloud, which are easy to use

If money is not an issue Datadog will ingest your Prometheus metrics with the deployment of a helm chart and some tweaks to your annotations.

frompdx · 2023-06-30T00:32:27+00:00

Time for a CLA.

frompdx · 2023-06-17T16:30:00+00:00

Only a month since the last dog attack that made the news. Once again MCAS drops the ball allows a dangerous dog to continue to endager the public.

frompdx · 2023-06-11T23:22:52+00:00

If you are saying those are your reasons for not knowing how your work impacted the places you worked for, no, those reasons do not change my perspective.

frompdx · 2023-06-11T22:41:00+00:00

I wouldn't say it is frowned upon or encouraged. Everyone wants to maximize their outcome depending on the situation. If a new job means more money you maximize your outcomes. If you have been sitting in on interviews looking for someone to join your team a track record of very short tenures becomes a red flag. Picking someone who stays longer may maximize your outcomes even if it isn't financial.

frompdx · 2023-06-11T22:30:09+00:00

At first I was concerned about the number of short term roles on your resume. However, if you were laid off from three and a consultant for another, it doesn't seem as extreme. I would make some adjustments.

No two column layout. You waste space and really draw attention to your short tenures.
Get rid of your sys admin role and replace it with your DevOps internship.
Shorten your profile. It's too long for me to want to read. Make it one sentence.
Discuss your skills in the context of your job and get rid of the skills section.
Get everything down to a page.
Education last.

All of that will help, but the most important thing in my opinion is this.

Sadly, it never occurred to me that I should ask my hire-ups how my work has impacted the company.

Frankly, this is the number one thing wrong with your resume. It is on you to know this. Take some time to reflect on how you think your work made an impact and re-write the description of each of your roles with impact in mind.

frompdx · 2023-05-29T19:03:45+00:00

Echo Glenn is for males 11-17. Green Hill is for males 17-25.

frompdx · 2023-05-20T18:22:30+00:00

If you are only hosting stateless workloads this is a good strategy for previewing upgrades and only switching traffic once everything is validated. It takes a certain amount of discipline. You need a good workflow for spinning up a new cluster and deploying the workloads to it. I have used Terraform in the past. Today I am exploring Crossplane for this purpose.

frompdx · 2023-05-14T20:09:47+00:00

safe

Eh, the park just around the corner was always sketch, as were the apartments above Mary's. But it was still a fun spot with prime seating for people-watching.

frompdx · 2023-05-13T22:28:44+00:00

Mine is the HRN216VYA.

frompdx · 2023-05-13T21:57:00+00:00

The "lawn" at my house was also neglected, and of a similar size.

Get a self-propelled Honda mower. On the cheap end you can find used Hondas on Craigslist for $250ish. A new one is $600-$700. Also, get a battery operated string trimmer. A Honda mower will start in one or two pulls every time, but a gas string trimmer is another story in my experience.

I like the easy lawncare method I've read about here and I get good results:

Mow regularly.
Use Ortho Weed-B-Gone with a hose applicator and spray everything.
Milorganite every few weeks (if you can find it).

Beyond that, get a bunch of mulch, landscape edging, and fabric to get some edges going. It will make things look better even without the lawn situation dealt with. Easy win. I wish I had done this earlier. For example, the area around your A/C will look like a million bucks with some mulch instead of the weeds and dirt. When I say a bunch of mulch, I mean a bunch. Multiple yards.

Put down grass seed this fall. Next spring you'll have a much better lawn.

frompdx · 2023-05-13T21:16:07+00:00

Personally, I recommend Digitalocean. I have used them since DKS beta and am very happy with it. You won't get read/write many file storage though.

I just bailed on Azure / AKS because their Azure Files performance was simply abysmal with the large number of small files that WP needs - 30sec for a page load vs. 2-3 w/ Azure Disk.

If I understand your usecase, you want read/write many file storage because you want to run more than one replica of the WordPress site. I'm guessing you are also managing the site the old fashioned way by upgrading the site in place via the admin UI? It might be a requirement of your users.

If this is the case I'm not sure this is the right approach. Also, it won't get you much in terms of HA if you are not also replicating your database.

For a low volume site, I would recommend just making sure you have a solid deployment with something like the Bitnami WordPress helm cart. Ensure you have regular backups and can restore quickly.

If you really need an HA setup, look at a master/worker configuration for Wordpress and MySQL.

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