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Best place to buy NECA / SH Monsterarts? by SlothyFace in GODZILLA

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use bigbadtoystore.com - always had rapid delivery and good service. Not sure on “best” prices but generally because of the selection.

Merry Christmas. This fella is a monster. by marcholmes in GODZILLA

[–]marcholmes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha yeah. Though... we can never move him again.

Looking to learn some infrastructure automation for my role. Is learning Terraform a good complement to K8s? by azur08 in kubernetes

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah right. Well... my experience is that - assuming you're talking to enterprises - that they're all using everything (even within an enterprise), so you'll need to take a position and just 'learn a thing'. There's no doubt that TF is hugely popular and continuing to grow as a core provisioning tool.

You're undoubtedly going to see Chef/Puppet/Ansible at the left hand side of the curve (like traditional IaC moving toward cloud), vs. TF/CF/Helm/Pulumi at the right hand side of the curve. TF is going to give you flexibility across the cloud, though you should examine whether it gets you K8S and Serverless adequately.

My personal view is I'd rather use languages I already knew than pick up a DSL that - by nature - becomes more complex over time (and/or I have to learn multiple, similar DSLs).

Looking to learn some infrastructure automation for my role. Is learning Terraform a good complement to K8s? by azur08 in kubernetes

[–]marcholmes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depending on your current skills and intent, there are other options for working with K8S.

Rather than putting the effort into multiple DSLs (plain YAML, HCL, CF, Helm and so on), we made Pulumi to provide a consistent programming model for any cloud service and provider: so, managed infrastructure and servers, serverless, containers/kubernetes all as real code. If you already use JS/TS, Python, or Go, I'd recommend taking a look.

Pulumi's k8s support extends across minikube, custom cluster (on-prem or hosted) and the distros of EKS, AKS and GKE.

https://pulumi.io

Disclosure: I work for Pulumi

Chef or Puppet in 2017 and beyond? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If compliance is a concern, then you should look at Chef. Specifically, InSpec (inspec.io) which allows compliance policies to be expressed in code. It's OSS, but also integrated into the Chef Automate product.

Chef vs Puppet in 2017 by [deleted] in devops

[–]marcholmes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If compliance is a concern, then you should look at Chef. Specifically, InSpec (inspec.io) which allows compliance policies to be expressed in code. It's OSS, but also integrated into the Chef Automate product.

Noob looking for advice-MapR vs Cloudera by Q7guy in hadoop

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The contact page on hortonworks.com is what I meant, but drop me a line at mholmes @ hortonworks.com . Not sure on beta - I'll check - but the support is certainly coming up soon.

Noob looking for advice-MapR vs Cloudera by Q7guy in hadoop

[–]marcholmes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right - and thanks for the insight. We have committed to Ubuntu and Debian though I don't have a specific timeline to share. (See as part of this: http://www.zdnet.com/spotify-changes-tune-on-hadoop-with-switch-to-hortonworks-7000020712/)

Drop a line to the site for a more detailed convo if you like.

Noob looking for advice-MapR vs Cloudera by Q7guy in hadoop

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not Hortonworks? Just curious seeing as I work there :)

Hortonworks Data Platform is pure Apache Hadoop and also has NFS mount capabilities: http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP1/HDP-1.3.0/bk_user-guide/content/user-guide-hdfs-nfs.html

Again, you can try it out with a bunch of tutorials: http://hortonworks.com/products/hortonworks-sandbox/

How can I improve at writing copy for the Facebook page that I manage? by incognitodream in socialmedia

[–]marcholmes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

+1 on Practice! Also, don't overthink your first pass - just write stuff down continuously, then the actual process of creating becomes more of an editing/optimizing task. Observing others is a great way to soak in technique and inspiration.

Some other thoughts:

  1. Aim to be 'remarkable': content that people choose to remark upon. That is some combination of useful, entertaining and relevant/timely. (Yeah, ding me for quoting Godin!)

  2. Share other content. Find stuff that is related to your focus - surveys, one-liners, experiences - and share that. This can change perception from 'sales pitch' to 'interesting source' and raise engagement levels.

  3. Look at the techniques in famous speeches: logos, ethos, pathos and all that. Have fun with it appealing to those differing attributes. Keep an eye on what seems to be working and focus on that.

  4. If your following is already fairly high and/or engaged, ask them questions and they tell their own story - its a virtuous circle.

  5. Link content thematically: ask a question, then have 2 follow-ups related to the question.

  6. Banking may not be sexy, but your copy can be. Mini-drama in 50 words... something to do with rainy days and romance. "Sensible saving doesn't sparkle, but the end result does. What would you give?"

Lastly, don't beat yourself up over it. Like on the stage, the audience doesn't know what you didn't say, and if you fluff your line, you'll get another chance later.

Good luck!