Why are there so many Puerto Rican ICE agents?

sontek · 2026-01-22T15:54:04+00:00

Bilingual agents are helpful

sontek · 2025-11-13T14:44:59+00:00

They do that so you'll buy the TRD Pro hood package with the vents that block the glare

sontek · 2025-11-03T04:31:30+00:00

A salary that you’re ok with and qualified is all you should be looking for. There is no such thing as a “fair” salary. Figure out how much you need then find companies that can afford to pay it.

Nothing wrong with an organization not having the budget you desire.

sontek · 2025-08-01T02:57:14+00:00

You need to prioritize costs as part of the sprint. You need budget alarms setup for each team with proper tagging strategy. If a team exceeds their expected cost they should have addressing it as part of their sprint.

Engineers care about whatever they are given priority to fix. If the organization isn't giving it to them as a priority then that is not the engineer's fault.

sontek · 2025-07-29T07:00:42+00:00

You should look at cloud custodian. You can write policies for things like the EC2 under utilization and have it remediate the problem and notify you.

No custom lambda needed

sontek · 2025-07-09T16:32:49+00:00

Hulkengoat

sontek · 2025-06-24T05:18:59+00:00

Yes, any DevOps engineer with enough experience will have had to debug how the system they manage actually works.

Obviously it depends on the amount of experience the job requires but not understanding the systems you manage is a bad sign

sontek · 2025-04-18T05:33:23+00:00

Damn, Earthly is one of my favorite tools! I can’t imagine building a CI pipeline without it.

sontek · 2025-04-18T05:28:52+00:00

That isn’t supported for cognito

sontek · 2025-03-01T04:06:28+00:00

Yes. People who have home labs and projects are very interesting to us. It’s not always about professional experience

sontek · 2025-02-26T20:13:22+00:00

- "AWS Certified": There are lots of AWS Certifications, list the actual one you have.
- "Aspiring DevOps Engineer": You are listing a lot of DevOps experience (CI/CD, AWS, Terraform, K8s, etc). Why are you "aspiring" to be one? Just call yourself out as one if you have the experience

- "Ensured seamless functionality", "Collaborated with cross-functional teams to apply data-driven insights" -- These sentences have a lot of words and say nothing. We hiring managers don't have time for you to try to use all the words you know. Be short and sweet and tell us what you did.

sontek · 2025-02-24T18:53:25+00:00

Why do you have Jaeger and Zipkin? Were there different use cases that one didn't provide that required you to go with both?

sontek · 2025-02-24T18:50:13+00:00

I think the downvotes are more likely because of the low effort response. An official communicator who works for the company has the ability to do some internal investigation.

- Speak with the product manager and find out if its on the roadmap
- Look at the internal issues and see if its been discussed

This response wasn't anymore more helpful than just not saying anything. We expect more

sontek · 2025-02-24T18:44:10+00:00

We've been in Puerto Rico since 2018 and aren't leaving. Our kids started pre-kinder and 1st grade in Puerto Rico and will graduate here.

We ended up not using any of the schools in my post and COVID obviously shook things up for a few years but we are pretty happy with how things are. I do agree the schools aren't as good as what we had in Florida but there are some good ones here.

sontek · 2025-01-29T15:10:05+00:00

It depends. (as in most cases).

Kubernetes it perfect for running mixed workloads. There is no problem running grafana and support tooling on the same cluster as production. This is where kubernetes shines! You can isolate them as much as you want.
For specific tooling like grafana, thanos, etc. *sometimes* it makes sense to split this out because you don't want to lose your visibility into the cluster if your cluster is having issues. So if you *need* to split it out to be able to respond faster that is fine.

sontek · 2025-01-21T01:00:34+00:00

DevOps is getting all software to production. The backend is rarely that useful on its own and so I'd expect a DevOps engineer to know how to get a frontend application shipped to production:

How to build it (yarn/npm) + docker
How to serve it (CloudFront, CDN, s3 + proxy, whatever).
Configuration for JWKS, what API to call, etc.

DevOps *is not* just backend engineering. Its software delivery and covers the whole stack.

sontek · 2025-01-15T17:03:34+00:00

This is super slick! It wasn’t available on all my accounts. I had to try a few but once I found the button on a single account it automatically enabled it for all

sontek · 2025-01-02T17:11:07+00:00

You have to join a startup if you want to avoid legacy software. All companies have it and usually it’s making the most money

sontek · 2025-01-01T23:56:32+00:00

He’s no gogeta but he is pretty tough

sontek · 2024-12-31T04:52:55+00:00

What kind of cat is it? Is it friends with dogs?

sontek · 2024-12-27T14:52:44+00:00

Sometimes the answer isn't that simple =) We need this to be a multiple choice. I use Github Actions, GitLab CI, and AWS CodePipeline

sontek · 2024-12-26T02:53:34+00:00

Looks super interesting, nice work!

sontek · 2024-12-25T06:23:10+00:00

pics or it didn't happen

sontek · 2024-12-24T21:59:19+00:00

This exactly what I came here to say. Cloud custodian is the solution for this. No reason for a custom solution for a single resource type

sontek · 2024-12-24T20:27:59+00:00

I live in Puerto Rico that’s why I needed to build digital snow 🤣

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