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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • A properly architected and implemented microservice architecture optimizes work throughput while minimizing risk. In practice its architecting in such a way that no part can take down the whole individually - the very opposite of a monolith where everything is inseparably interdependent at some level.

    Problem is, most organizations don’t know how to properly architect for and integrate microservice architectures into their environments and work process. Most think that a crew of former sysadmins can just spin up a few saas services, slap some autoscaling on it if they’re feeling spicy, segment along traditional monolith “frontend/backend” lines for “security,” and call it a day. They then spend time and money learning and/or fighting this system, only to see minimal (if any) improvement in work capacity/quality and instead end up with an outsized cloud bill.




  • You know that “anti commercial AI license” shit does nothing, right? It’s the equivalent of idiots posting that wall of text on Facebook a decade or so ago saying they don’t give Facebook permission to use their pictures, posts…etc.

    I mean if it makes you feel better and gives you a sense of control in an otherwise out-of-your-control environment then I suppose go for it, but you’re not actually accomplishing anything other than making yourself feel slightly better and more deluded.











  • Normally I’m not one to tear down the creative output of others, but articles like this make it very hard to not do so. It reads like a barely-cohesive list of tangents loosely tied together with a poor attempt at a “lesson,” but lacks any substance or voice. What is it trying to say? Even the author doesn’t seem to know, beyond waxing poetic (poorly, I might add) about how difficult it is to have a job and how our individual consumerism is creating a class of “undesirable” jobs that can otherwise be eliminated with just a little more mindfulness and self-reliance…I think? Maybe?

    At its core though, this to me reads as a poor attempt at defending the wealth class and shifting the burden of responsibility to the individual. Nowhere is there a discussion about the actual issue with CEOs in society (hint: it’s not because they exist or don’t have a “tough” job, but because the wages and compensation are grossly and wildly out of sync with the product of their indovidual labor), or a discussion about what the author learned in the course of their one week playing housekeeper dress up and how it relates to CEOs in any way? Instead it reads as a privileged teen’s incoherent ramblings about that one week they played grown up, while simultaneously testing various blogging and SEO strategies (all the unnecessary links, formatting…etc), all tied together (poorly) with an attempt to set it in the foreground of “conscientious” hot topics like labor, effects of rampant consumerism in modern society, class consciousness, and environmentalism…




  • Not my personal setup, but I’ve worked at orgs in the past where the tier0 infra was set up using terraform and all funneled through github PRs. To add users/gain access to resources…etc, users would submit a PR and someone on the IT team would review/reject accordingly. It allowed for scalability and version/config control, but still required human input for the actual security question decision making.