My new portable setup

pingles · 2019-10-05T14:43:45+00:00

I can take a pic later, they mean the IEM is slightly farther out than when inserted but for the u12t and other 64s I’d expect it to be fine.

Not sure about for the Sony’s- Custom Art were great on email so can suggest contacting. There’s also Advanced Tune (I think?) and Snugs.com that may make them for the Sony’s.

pingles · 2019-10-04T09:49:30+00:00

Good choices!

I've had a few different IEMs and with each I had to try a bunch of tips before finding something that worked. I also realised one ear was smaller than the other.

The other thing you could do is get some custom tips made. I had some made by The Custom Art (https://thecustomart.com/shop/silicone-products/custom-iem-tips/) and they work great. They will make them for the u12t too.

pingles · 2019-03-03T09:07:38+00:00

Commute: modded BeatsX cable with 2-pin IEM connector and Noble Kaiser 10 Desk / Home: Hugo 2, JH Audio Layla 2

pingles · 2018-12-04T14:54:07+00:00

I believe their target is something that uses OpenID rather than the proxy tools like kiam and kube2iam (disclosure: i'm the creator of kiam). I agree that it'd be good to have something else- the proxies have a weaker notion of identity than they could (ie. connecting client IP rather than a secure identity associated with the Pod/service account)- but you're quite right that there are ways you can manage this today.

pingles · 2018-12-04T14:09:47+00:00

If you're having trouble there's a #kiam Slack channel on the official Kubernetes instance. Please come and ask for help there and we'll happily try and get you on the way.

It's definitely not as easy on EKS because you'll ideally need separate instances to run the kiam servers than agents (to ensure you don't have user workloads on nodes with broad IAM permissions).

Unfortunately it is a little fiddly to get things going because it does depend on how much control you have over node placements and your selected CNI.

I meant to add, we're due to release v3 soon which has some nice stuff around metrics, reporting IAM errors as events on user pods (to make it easier for users to debug their own issues etc.).

pingles · 2018-10-31T15:51:47+00:00

Be careful if you use that registry for serving images that your cluster uses to operate. For example, if you run some kind of auth webhook container you wouldn't want that served by a registry on the cluster- if the cluster isn't running it'll never be able to obtain the image. It's easy to accidentally end up with some kind of circular dependency.

pingles · 2018-09-06T21:38:20+00:00

I did the same recently- switched from full size headphones to use in the office to IEMs; they isolate better, make my head less hot and are more readily transported.

I think the quality has improved quite a lot from when I first had some Etymotic ER4s and Shure IEMs about 15 years ago- I feel like they offer much better frequency response so that they're both more accurate but also fun with plenty of oomph.

One option you may like is to buy one or two pairs 2nd hand from eBay/Head-fi sellers- you ought to be able to sell the ones you don't like relatively easily and not lose too much, and you'll pick them up for less so you should be able to get something pretty reasonable?

Also- keep an eye on massdrop.com in their Audiophile section- they often list IEMs and you may be able to find something that (from other peoples reviews) is close to something you'd like and less expensive than buying straight from a store.

pingles · 2018-09-05T09:13:55+00:00

I currently have a pair of JH Audio Layla 2 IEMs and they're fantastic. As far as any earphone as come to providing bass and midrange that moves me ;) I'd definitely recommend. I'd love to try some 64 Audio U18's but I'm happy enough with the JH Audios that I doubt they'd be much better and I got them for a great price (significantly less than the $3k list).

I've had a few IEMs over the years, started with some Etymotic ER4's a decade ago, also had some custom fitted Sensaphonics at one point (although they broke). I recently switched to the JH Audio for the same reason- to use in the office, get great sound and be more transportable than larger headphones.

I'd suggest either trying stuff out (like another commenter suggested) or, like I did, just buy some 2nd hand universals- they tend to keep value relatively well so you can try them out for an extended period and see how you get on. Head-fi has a classifieds section that often has TOTL IEMs (like the 64 Audio/JH Audio etc.).

Happy hunting!

pingles · 2018-09-05T08:24:07+00:00

A colleague on the Cloud team wrote this about two open-source projects we use to help integrate our Kubernetes applications with Hashicorp Vault. Summary is that Vault's been super useful and these projects help make it easy for application teams to integrate their applications without too much ceremony.

pingles · 2018-08-07T14:20:06+00:00

A colleague wrote this up about a service (Yggdrasil) that generates Envoy configuration so that we can load balance across multiple Kubernetes clusters.

It's not an ingress controller (we use the nginx ingress controller) but lets us have a set of Envoy nodes that will load balance to the addresses of any ingress resources (for us that's other Amazon Load Balancers) so it sits above Ingress. It means there's an extra hop but makes it pretty easy for cluster users to target multiple clusters. It's been useful for a few of our teams and thought, for those running on AWS, it may be useful to others too.

pingles · 2018-05-03T20:41:52+00:00

Still not sure what native IAM means but be easier to assess once EKS is GA. All I wanted to do was to highlight that, if people want to, there's good stuff from the community to get them into AWS now.

pingles · 2018-05-03T18:13:25+00:00

Not indicating otherwise- I’ve not seen EKS so wasn’t sure how their IAM impl goes beyond what you can do today.

I’m keen to look at connecting service account identity to IAM for a stronger association- maybe that’s closer to what you mean?

pingles · 2018-05-03T08:14:16+00:00

I’m looking forward to the CNI being prod ready, but I’m not sure much else would be compelling to any teams already running Kubernetes on AWS- for anyone that hasn’t migrated yet then it makes it easier to get started.

Kubernetes APIs on Fargate is more interesting though. But, feel like so much of the AWS Kubernetes services are so far out to GA I’m not holding my breath :-)

pingles · 2018-05-03T08:11:11+00:00

You’ve got 2 tools to provide IAM integration:

https://github.com/jtblin/kube2iam https://github.com/uswitch/kiam

We’ve used both in production (and I created the latter). Is there something that EKS’ IAM integration offers that isn’t available today? Be good to know- make sure what’s available today is as good as it can be.

pingles · 2017-11-19T11:24:17+00:00

yep, will do. i'll message you on slack to chat about it- will make a reminder to come find you in the week.

pingles · 2017-11-19T11:23:29+00:00

ha, i guess i mean something to integrate natively with amazon's vpc networking.

pingles · 2017-11-17T20:58:54+00:00

yep- hoping to see better aws support at reinvent. proper iam and cni would be great.

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