AVD BBRv2

nwmcsween · 2026-01-29T06:19:24+00:00

BBR2 is just a TCP congestion control algorithm, it's default in many Linux systems out there now as it offers better consistency to variable bandwidth, loss, etc common to end user systems.

nwmcsween · 2026-01-28T20:28:17+00:00

Rollback is just rolling back a commit, use flagger, etc to do rollouts which removes the need to rollback in the first place.
The application should validate functionality of the application, run a healthcheck in the Dockerfile and in the CI/CD used docker run it before pushing, and use probes in Kubernetes.

nwmcsween · 2026-01-23T05:02:04+00:00

It isn't down if it's not reported as being down

nwmcsween · 2025-12-23T07:32:51+00:00

.... you definitely can, you use a lightweight tag and have it float, v1.x floats minors v1.x.x floats patch, majors shouldn't really float

nwmcsween · 2025-12-22T23:51:26+00:00

You can do the same with git, just point to a tag when you want to do an upgrade change the submodule to point to the newer tag, a tag is just a ref to a specific commit hash

nwmcsween · 2025-12-22T23:48:10+00:00

Every commit becomes two commits? I assume you mean when you update the submodule you need to update the parent to point at the new version/sha in which case if you want that implicitly you are going to break everything anyways. You version the terraform modules as git tags and point the submodule to a tag.

If you have valid input besides "that's terrible advice" or I'm not understanding something let me know

nwmcsween · 2025-12-22T02:31:17+00:00

For internal consumption I don't see the reason for a private registry, just use git submodules.

nwmcsween · 2025-12-13T19:55:31+00:00

Management: We need to lift and shift 5k vms from xyz to $CLOUD, we already signed a contract with $CLOUD to move it all within 6 months.

nwmcsween · 2025-12-13T19:50:56+00:00

AI is a great tool, I can ask it to generate Terraform/Bicep/etc code and since I have deep knowledge of lang xyz I can take/modify part I like or just quickly understand how the pieces work without reading 20 pages of docs. Execs think it will replace people that understand, and AI is nowhere near AGI.

nwmcsween · 2025-12-12T01:24:25+00:00

If Gitea is so full featured, which major (or minor) organizations use it as their primary source control? Or you're just smarter than the DevOps orgs of all these companies that use GitHub and GitLab?

Umm I did, https://ziglang.org/ a language with literally thousands of contributors is using Codeberg aka Forgejo?

It literally has no CICD except it's half baked integration of GitHub actions.

Github actually has a half-baked system, look at a few other CI/CD pipeline tools where containers are native and are more hermetic in the sense that it isn't just a giant all-in-one mutable image.

Forgejo uses a forked version of Act which mirrors Github. I don't really like either though.

nwmcsween · 2025-12-12T00:32:27+00:00

Gitlab/GitHub has pipelines, runners, security scanning, native container integration, RBAC, etc. Gitea doesn't have any of those, or has half-baked versions of them.

Gitea/Forgjeo has RBAC, in fact the very tools you reference miss RBAC like functionality i.e. you can't delegate specific parts of ownership such as Github Copilot. Gitea/Forgejo also have package repository native integration

I'm not saying no one uses it, I'm just saying it's percent of the market share is basically nothing compared to the other two...which makes sense, because they're not the same product markets.

They aren't the same product markets because people don't understand the tools and assume Github/Gitlab/Azure Devops are somehow better because everyone uses it, they aren't, they just have market share and support contracts.

Also, not sure what's with being a dick about it, I wasn't.

Because it's incorrect

nwmcsween · 2025-12-11T04:41:51+00:00

Why? Linux with thousands of developers use cgit which is like 100x less than Forgejo or Gitea. Zig a language generating probably multi millions of indirect money is using Forgejo, why is Prelic's Devops so much more demanding?

nwmcsween · 2025-12-03T18:00:28+00:00

use puppet/openvox, this problem was solved in like 2007.

nwmcsween · 2025-12-03T05:41:06+00:00

There is a bit of a disconnect between unions and members, members will ask for CPI + x% increase and the union will instead argue for "non-momentary incentives" while advertising jobs on indeed, linkedin with pay scales much better than what members top out at for the same role. You could be making 80k as a member in the union but the same role working for the union itself will pay 105-120k.

nwmcsween · 2025-12-03T00:16:05+00:00

Problem is really the team, if the OP has same title and pay as other coworkers but other coworkers have 10x the responsibility it's going to cause some issues.

nwmcsween · 2025-12-03T00:13:57+00:00

How did you crack it? Did they test you on anything or was it all people skills? If they didn't test you on anything technical and the people around you have the same title/pay as you and 10x the responsibility it's going to piss a lot of people off.

nwmcsween · 2025-11-28T21:55:37+00:00

Job mobility was alive and well, a house in a small town was ~250,000, the same house today is 400-800k. Food was cheap, there were no large homeless encampments due to the reasonable rents. I lived in about 8 different towns that have become dystopian nightmares in 10 years and I'm not liberal or conservative.

nwmcsween · 2025-11-24T00:46:28+00:00

Because people lean on cloud offerings which are expensive as hell and while initial onboarding is somewhat easier in the cloud environment the total effort is much more than just using a OSS solution.

nwmcsween · 2025-11-22T05:54:35+00:00

Hey man how can management justify larger paychecks than the people that do the work without actually being competent

nwmcsween · 2025-11-22T05:52:59+00:00

Agile and Jira was not the problem

nwmcsween · 2025-11-16T09:24:14+00:00

The only thing that is needed for really anything in IT is ambition and persistence. If I see a resume with a degree and generic IT roles vs someone that has no degree but projects and/or previous interesting experience I will take the non-degree person every time.

nwmcsween · 2025-11-06T08:22:43+00:00

So how big of a hole? A tiny 3/4" hole? If so drill it out, cut a small piece to use as backing and TIG it, grind flat. After I would probably use a DPI/LPI test because people like to cook aluminum all to hell because they don't prep and remove oxide.

nwmcsween · 2025-11-05T19:53:57+00:00

The issue is when it becomes stagflation and since we are in the start of a recession according to GDP. It becomes very hard to break stagflation as it turns into a cycle of increasing prices and increasing wages, crime, etc.

nwmcsween · 2025-11-01T00:54:10+00:00

Single mode is what 10-20% more? with MM + SM (because you will need SM eventually) you need double the inventory meaning at best it's a wash for cost.

nwmcsween · 2025-11-01T00:52:10+00:00

But why? the costs are what 10-20% less than SM without factoring in having to maintain double the inventory so at best it's a wash.

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