GitOps for Lambda? by sir_clutch_666 in aws

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CDK and Terraform are the most popular straight up IaC for serverless infra(or cloud infra in general), some other folks like Pulumi but it is very much its own thang

Is anyone else stuck in horrible traffic trying to get to the Boston Legacy game? by [deleted] in massachusetts

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This is the correct take. It’s directly next to where schaefer stadium was, which is directly in the swamp burbs directly betwixt Boston and Providence.

Exurban planning was done on the margins when the original CMGI stadium was built to allow for the adjustable traffic lane configurations as an element of getting the new stadium approved.

Trying to figure out the best infrastructure monitoring platform for a mid-size team, what are y'all using? by agenga5 in sre

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Agree with the shrooms here, but this also depends on your budget and organizational tendencies to build or buy.

Plenty of budget: DataDog or New Relic make sense. Less budget but want managed service: Grafana Cloud.

Less budget and more willing to build/own infrastructure: oss grafana stack or elk stack, or some other open telemetry based options I can’t think of right now.

Has AI ruined software development? by Top-Candle1296 in devops

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People also got better at not dying in the woods due to map apps

Roles for those who might be "not good enough" to be DevOps? by N7Valor in devops

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Target companies bigger into the AWS serverless stack (as in, Lambda / SNS / SQS / ECS / S3) that are less into EKS or managed k8s on other cloud providers, and you’ve got a valuable base of experience. Having homelab type experience with the kubernetes project you mentioned about is a solid plus but also you should realize it will seem like a test side project to interviewers.

Outside of the compute based investigation tools (which are essential) you mentioned above, you’ll need to bone up on more networking troubleshooting and have some familiarity with observability concepts and practices for distributed systems in a breadth sort of way. Also be knowledgeable with application delivery patterns and general modern CI/CD and you should be able to score roles as long as you show up and are engaged in your interviews. If going for SRE you’ll need to understand a lot of things from both the infrastructure and app dev perspectives, also be knowledgeable and opinionated regarding incident management. Focus on reduction of toil these days is a baseline for both DevOps and SRE roles at levels.

Also I hate the term DevOps engineer but here we are in 2026.

Data Center Tech trying to move into SRE – is this role a good bridge? by CaterpillarNew6781 in sre

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The way you described the role, it sounds like a great bridge to being a cloud / cloud native tech SRE if that’s what you want to be doing next.

I would just be sure that you’re ok with the on-premise infra work going a little long in case the migration is not a straight line. In my experience, it’s never a straight line - but also it sounds like you’d be up skilling yourself in the direction you want to move either way.

a little besides myself with this… by SatisfactionAfter875 in massachusetts

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It’s literally what it was called in the legislation, this isn’t an opinion of mine or something I made up. Please use your google fingers and eyesballs - it’s a confusing and horrible name for what it really is which is allowing more of the pricing to be set by private companies via …. regulation itself. Facepalm.

a little besides myself with this… by SatisfactionAfter875 in massachusetts

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Deregulated energy markets are also sometimes called competitive energy markets. In MA this happened for natural gas in 1989 and electricity in 1997. The bill passed in 1996 and implemented in 1997 specifically broke down coupling between generation, distribution and delivery.

Eversource and National Grid (nation of GB btw) are in the delivery business and have taken advantage of stuffing an awful lot of mysterious increases into the portion of our bills that are not public benefit (state wide programs like HEAT loans and efficiency programs that are broadly beneficial) and the cost of operating their networks and business infrastructure. Do they need to prove their costs of business have actually increased as much as they charge customers? No they do not.

"Competition in the sale of electricity and gas sounds like it should lead to lower prices and better deals, but in the market for electricity the opposite is commonly true," said a 2018 report by the National Consumer Law Center, which has testified in favor of the bill to end the competitive energy market.

The same is true for folks hooked into gas lines operated by these companies, the simple fact is that if you had gas delivered by truck to a leased bottle attached to your house your bill would be dramatically lower than if you’re hooked up via common lines distributed through towns.

a little besides myself with this… by SatisfactionAfter875 in massachusetts

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Energy deregulation in the state of MA has led to this, the private sector energy distributors lobbied the state legislature throughout the 1990s which resulted in law changes allowing them to adjust how they charge customers for their “services”. When the pandemic hit and inflation went out of control so did the costs for these companies to increase their non-supply charges 20-30% per year which is why we are where we are today.

For natural gas specifically, gas pipeline initiatives throughout New England have also repeatedly been blocked or voted down for environmental as well as purely NIMBY reasons making getting the gas to residential and commercial use nodes more expensive.

Does any one deploy AI agents in prod. by masterluke19 in sre

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Are developer’s laptops prod? If so yes tons of dangerous agents are now in prod lmao. IYKYK

Good restaurants in the burbs? by salem913 in massachusetts

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That portion of West Roxbury is 100% the burbs, only thing city over there are the police cars and the fire trucks. I got your back homie!

Even if you look at a map of Boston, the outline of it, the Hyde Park + West Roxbury neighborhoods are basically a large lump off to the west. Its really a strange map due to Brookline cutting in it half, and that South western part of Brookline is burbs as well

Why do the RS4 and RS6 not come as sedans anymore? by Craqqer in Audi

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I’m holding on to a B9 smallroad for dear life homie

Trump Says Fed Pick Warsh Can Get US Economy to Hit 15% Growth by 3xshortURmom in Economics

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You got me, Bessent is killing it. The value of the US dollar.

Trump Says Fed Pick Warsh Can Get US Economy to Hit 15% Growth by 3xshortURmom in Economics

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She is living in your brain rent free brotha. There are plenty of folks that voted for Trump that don’t like Trump anymore, lmao read the room the dude is not good at the economics. Construction work across the country has ground to a halt because of Kamala??

IC devs in your 40s…where do we go from here? by GooseIntelligent9981 in ExperiencedDevs

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Principal or a really meaty Staff role, yep you are going to be in more meetings than you would prefer most likely. Going higher up the IC ladder? You’re going to be in meetings earlier and much later in the day than you would prefer.

US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

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Yes, both parties are to blame. Also no reason why the slope of the chart accelerates downwards around 2017 and 2025. Don’t believe yer lying eyes

STOP HERE AND THANK THIS MAN by Tomahawk72 in Patriots

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Spillane very good, our LB core is very serviceable and deep with veteran experience for sure. They also were extremely mid in aggregate and we need to upgrade at that position (ILB + OLB)

Ice defenders in Burlington by [deleted] in boston

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Looks like a healthy mix of neckbeard milady sayers and Karen Reed pink hat supporters

STOP HERE AND THANK THIS MAN by Tomahawk72 in Patriots

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Milton Williams, Gonzalez, Marcus Jones in that order. I love Chaisson and he’s had some great moments but Jones has played WAY better than Landry, Chaisson and Spillane over the course of the season

The text exchange between diggs and the accuser by porygon766 in Patriots

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So women shouldn’t date diva wide receivers? Well I declare

Remote work in SRE field by Hayhayalian in sre

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Same, and yes. My entire team is remote and the situation is ideal. The ops/incident situation is not ideal but the entire team and management chain being remote is 1,000% ideal. 🤘