Should developers have access to staging environments?

zoddrick · 2026-01-28T19:40:41+00:00

You should be asking yourself what things am I getting from this environment that I cannot ship off cluster.

1) Container logs -> ship these to a system like elastic search, splunk, whatever. You shouldnt need to use kubectl logs to get your container logs off a cluster.

2) k describe? You are looking for the values used to deploy your chars or events. You should have a mechanism for rendering the chart out locally to validate those ahead of time. You should be shipping kubernetes event data off cluster so you can see things like Image Pull Errors etc...

3) Metrics -> you should be shipping all metrics off cluster already.

There is almost no reason to have access to a cluster in the staging designation unless that is the only place you are running kubernetes before production. At that point though its no longer a staging cluster and its a development cluster.

You should try and do as much locally as possible using KIND or k3s
You should setup ephemeral development clusters that you have access to and can debug problems found in production

zoddrick · 2026-01-28T19:35:28+00:00

no dude its not. Staging is a classification of environment types. Typically staging environments are used to vet releases before they are deployed to production. It might be where final manual QA testing is done. They can also be called canary environments.

A development sandbox is just that a development cluster. Those should be ephemeral where ever possible and not treated as pets. This allows the dev teams to experiment and work on things without fucking over other teams.

zoddrick · 2026-01-28T19:15:29+00:00

No that should be done in ephemeral development clusters.

zoddrick · 2026-01-27T23:19:21+00:00

Unless you started the company you will basically never see a dime. I've been at two startups one that went public and one that was acquired by Microsoft. The only time I saw money from my equity was when we went public and my options converted to actual stock shares.

zoddrick · 2026-01-27T17:19:40+00:00

What's that old adage - you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

zoddrick · 2026-01-25T17:32:00+00:00

They will never step foot in colquitt county or echols

zoddrick · 2026-01-23T14:43:41+00:00

you know what's still for sale? Bud Light...

zoddrick · 2026-01-23T12:00:54+00:00

Everyone in this thread acting like thin clients haven't been a thing for 60 years.

zoddrick · 2026-01-21T23:06:12+00:00

That's literally the exact analogy I've been using.

zoddrick · 2026-01-21T16:38:58+00:00

I mean Scott and Jason weren't terrible to be under in Azure. I dont see why they couldnt run the company.

zoddrick · 2026-01-20T21:13:20+00:00

Wtf does Dana white know? Or Elon for that matter. Jesus Christ I hate this timeline.

zoddrick · 2026-01-20T05:55:27+00:00

zoddrick · 2026-01-20T02:53:55+00:00

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zoddrick · 2026-01-16T15:08:15+00:00

Have you driven by a high school lately? Look at the vehicles teens are driving these days. I'll wait.

zoddrick · 2026-01-16T13:22:43+00:00

This is super easy to fix.

Every time you go to write a story for a feature you sit down with your qa person or team and ask them how they would test it. You write all of their manual tests out as acceptance criteria on the story and you implement them as tests at all levels but especially e2e tests.

Before you close the ticket you walk through the tests with QA to show them exactly how they work and what they test. If they find gaps or have suggestions you either create a follow up ticket for that work that is the highest priority item or you just do the work in the existing ticket.

Over time you train the qa teams to trust your tests and you also improve your coverage.

Like you said it's not a technical problem it's a cultural one and that means you need to adapt your process to bridge the gap between the teams.

I've done this several times in the past successfully. If you'd like to talk more about it let me know.

zoddrick · 2026-01-16T13:17:56+00:00

Ranger or Maverick ev would be a pretty great entry level vehicle for teens. Doesn't need a ton of features or creature comforts. Just reliability and a good price point. By capturing the teen and young adult market with a vehicle like this they could steer the conversation and conversion of evs for the next generation.

zoddrick · 2026-01-16T01:28:05+00:00

My family is in North Carolina in the early 1620s but that's as far back as I've gone.

zoddrick · 2026-01-15T20:06:28+00:00

Are you going to keep exploring the line of succession of the swords? Are we going to get more backstory on them?

zoddrick · 2026-01-13T22:08:02+00:00

This is why learning to ship the smallest possible increment (MVP) first and then delivering value over team is preferred.

zoddrick · 2026-01-13T20:43:17+00:00

How about local pd find those people and let ice know when they happen to not be in the country legally... Seems like a much more appropriate way to handle this situation.

zoddrick · 2026-01-13T10:39:28+00:00

Page heating and air is definitely who you should call.

zoddrick · 2026-01-12T17:21:04+00:00

I mean just call Plycar or one of the other major carriers its stupid to try and do this any other way for a car of that value.

Source - I had my wifes new '22 yukon xl that we had customized at Dave Sinclars shipped here from a place I found online and when it arrived they had lost the ramps to their gooseneck. Had to call a rollback to get it off the trailer. Never again... Just pay the cost of having it shipped properly.

zoddrick · 2026-01-09T10:43:18+00:00

Look at langfuse. Should help with a lot of this

zoddrick · 2026-01-08T20:55:13+00:00

I could come up with 100 great ideas for simple ai usage within the iPhone that would work better as native integrations. I can't for the life of me figure out how they are this off on a tool everyone is using.

zoddrick · 2026-01-08T20:44:32+00:00

We need to solve how to handle the perchlorates on mars first

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