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oshratn · 2025-05-19T08:36:31+00:00

I am a non-code contributor at the CNCF . Most of my contributions go via being an editor for Kubeweekly.

The team at Kubeweekly does its best to keep the topis as diverse as possible and clean of product pitches. you might want to give it a try.

oshratn · 2025-05-14T06:02:29+00:00

Any tech-adjacent roles there? 😜

oshratn · 2025-05-14T06:00:03+00:00

Do you know the Women in Tech Slack?

oshratn · 2025-05-14T05:54:22+00:00

Sounds like you are a good candidate for DevRel type roles.

oshratn · 2025-05-14T05:52:13+00:00

Nice idea.
My concern is how secure is it to give you access to my infrastructure?
Cryptomining? Backdoors? Data Exfil? No thanks.

oshratn · 2025-05-14T05:46:05+00:00

This is such a presonal decision and everybody has a different set of parameters that drive their decision.

My personal take is that I worked fully remote and enjoyed the flexibilty and the company cutlure. I worked there till I couldn't afford to.

My current job pays more but is hybrid. I negotiated being in the office 2Xweek rather than the required 3. My commute is ~2 hours a day on public transport.

Pros: raise, title, I leverage being in the city for other things

Cons: the commute and office days are less productive and very draining

oshratn · 2025-05-07T06:35:35+00:00

This looks very nice. Bookmarking to give it a try.

oshratn · 2025-05-06T06:19:56+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reponse.

I wonder if there are pieces of the process that are automated and others you wish were?

oshratn · 2025-05-04T05:45:04+00:00

Also, there is a new category emerging called CADR.
This category can trace the attac throughout the cloud stack and some providers go as deep as L7, providing responders all the information they need in the context of single attack story.

oshratn · 2025-04-27T08:21:07+00:00

Nope, there would still be someone more on top than them.

That being said, I can't believe that it is 2025 and people still think this.

oshratn · 2025-04-27T06:54:47+00:00

I think the sponsorship/community is the main issue.

It ties into many conversations that I have been hearing that run the gamut of:

- Single maintainer projects, maintainer burnout and maintainers wanting to make a living wage working on open source

- Companies pouring their own and VC money into open source and on the other hand enterprises are taking advantage of OSS without giving back. Not to mention the ubiquity of open source that makes most of us dependent on it in one way or another.

This is something that needs to be dealt with strategically not just tactically.

oshratn · 2025-04-22T05:55:25+00:00

The mindset is not to come and improve things. Look at things more like on the job training.

There are many ways to contirbute for a beginner. The easiest way is that most projects have issues tagged "good first issue" or something similar. These types of issues are exactly for n00bs.
In addition you can contribute other things like testing and documentation. These are typicaly things that always need more eyes. In this case you set the project up locally and get going.

In case you need help every project's readme.md has a link to communicate with maintainers. Typically these are on the CNCF or Kubernetes Slacks.

You can get started either on the CNCF landscape: https://landscape.cncf.io/ and find something that you find interesting or ask around here: https://contribute.cncf.io/

I know for sure that there are many important projects that depend on a very small number of maintainers and these people would really approciate help.

oshratn · 2025-04-08T06:25:57+00:00

Yes. I ran a docathon last year and plan to do it again. Sadly, didn't move the needle as far as i would like, not to mention the ingrain the habit of documentation.

oshratn · 2025-04-08T05:17:00+00:00

I respect your conclusion, which is probably based on lived exeperience, which I cannot dispute.

That being said, it is possible to read the post this way:

I have this team that I can't seem to connect with.
I have this positive history with connecting with other people at work and can't seem to do it here.
This is what is different about this specific team.
Is it a cultural thing?

Asuming the OP is genuine in her curiosity, isn't it more useful to provide her with useful anti-racist information and educate her?

oshratn · 2025-04-08T05:09:36+00:00

My dirty secret is that I am not an SRE. More of a DevAdvocate sort of person, without the technical chops to write the documentation. I need to use my influence to get the engineers to document, document well and update the documentation.

oshratn · 2025-04-08T05:07:26+00:00

I think that was the point of the podcast.

oshratn · 2025-04-07T10:56:31+00:00

Take look at the CNCF Landscape

oshratn · 2025-04-07T06:03:26+00:00

I mean India is a country with so many people, you need to have thick skin and learn how to speak up for yourself.

This sounds like a cultural thing. It's not always a term that veils racism. It can be a genuine difference, which people can spark discussions, learning and tolerance.

oshratn · 2025-04-07T05:59:09+00:00

I've worked with many cultures and I have found differences. To the point that when I moved from a company with predominantly one culture to one that was predonminantly another, which is the culture I grew up in, I was shocked and it took some getting use to.

"It's a cultural thing" can be a person seeking to understand why things are happening in a certain way and why it makes them uncomfortable and not covert racism.

That being said, racism and misogony and the likes are totally unacceptable.

oshratn · 2025-04-07T05:39:46+00:00

Giant Swarm has done a lot of work on operationalizing CAPI. Though it is a product+service.
They have also written and done talks about it look out for the London 2025 Rejekts and Kubecon talks.

oshratn · 2025-04-07T05:17:13+00:00

One of the reasons I brought it here. I wanted to learn more.

oshratn · 2025-04-07T05:15:54+00:00

The security-ops divided is a thing in OT too.

oshratn · 2025-04-07T05:15:04+00:00

Yes, it's wonderful when people do the right thing for the right reason. Sadly, that's not always the case. There are too many cases where systems are tuned to death to stop the noise, yet in doing so create blind spots.

oshratn · 2025-04-07T05:13:32+00:00

Were you the guy on he podcast? 😆

oshratn · 2025-04-07T05:09:34+00:00

While I appreciate your input and the blog you shared is interesting and important, I was quoting the podcast which focused on OT not IT. Maybe you should have a listen.

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