Turbots | 2 years ago | on: Goodbye, Twilio
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Turbots | 2 years ago | on: Kubernetes is hard
Your company "saves" over 100k/month paying WAY too much for EKS, which is extremely expensive.
If you're at any decent scale (looks like you are), then switch to GKE, or switch to on-prem and buy some hardware + a Kubernetes distro like Mirantis/Openshift/Tanzu.
Heck, go run k3s on Hetzner and you won't have that much more work, but save literally millions at the scale you're talking about.
Turbots | 3 years ago | on: Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor
what about glass pipes encased in said metals :-)
Turbots | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
Add March 5th to June 2nd...
Turbots | 4 years ago | on: Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay
A lot of them get this stock option every year, meaning after 4 years, you can easily have 480k vesting over time... (120k already vested after 4 years, 360k more to come in the next 4) etc...
Turbots | 4 years ago | on: Apple manipulates Podcast app ratings on AppStore
Someone in the twitter thread probably discovered why: Apple Podcasts apparently asks to rate the app after each podcast now. So people think they're rating the podcast, not the app. Nice manipulation right there Apple, they can even claim plausible deniability, it's brilliant actually
Turbots | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?
- Go to https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/workshops/ and create a free account (the workshops are run inside of your own kubernetes)
- Do the container 101 hands-on workshop (bottom of the page)
- Do the Kubernetes 101 hands-on workshop
- ???
- Profit! build and deploy applications on ANY kubernetes (not just GCP)
And then look into the GCP specifics for k8s (GKE), networking, DNS, load balancing, storage, monitoring, etc...
Turbots | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it worth to move to another country for 1mil$?
I pay 55-58 percent taxes in Belgium. Im pretty happy with how our system works and what they provide. But I do know they could easily get this number down if they would just do everything more efficiently. Never gonna move for it though.
Turbots | 5 years ago | on: CVE-2021-24122 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure
I have So Many customers running Spring Boot Apps on embedded tomcat on Windows server.
Turbots | 5 years ago | on: AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
And since I've been trying GitHub Actions, I don't know why you would need artifactory, nexus or this aws service anymore. Github offers private repositories, releases, project pages, cicd through actions and Microsoft is offering plenty of deployment options on Azure with AKS or plain Azure Compute
Turbots | 5 years ago | on: Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption for paying customers
It doesn't. Big companies who want to be gdpr compliant buy enterprise Slack and force slack to store the data in European datacenters. Slack doesn't give a shit about gdpr if you're not paying
Turbots | 6 years ago | on: A crowd-sourced social media swarm that is betting Tesla will crash
I never get why Elon Musk gets roasted for hyping up his products while EVERY OTHER car manufacturer does the exact same thing.
Heck, Jaguar boasted endlessly about their i-Pace being a great Tesla competitor, while in practice it disappointed in range (https://insideevs.com/news/340027/jaguar-i-pace-range-test-y...)
Turbots | 8 years ago | on: Pivotal Software S-1
Another super important part of Cloud Foundry is the underlying VM automation layer called Bosh [1]. It used to be extremely high learning curve, but its also very powerful. Cloud Foundry could not exist without it, but it can be used for automation of other packages of software as well (the CI/CD tool Concourse for example)
Cloud Foundry is VERY mature nowadays, is completely opensource and is part of the Linux Foundation. You can view it as Linux, which is the vanilla opensource version and which has different distros (CentOS, Ubuntu, ...)
Cloud Foundry is the vanilla opensource version, and there are many (commercial) distros available, like Pivotal Cloud Foundry, IBM Bluemix, SAP Cloud Platform, etc...
[1] https://bosh.io/
Turbots | 8 years ago | on: One of the most complex wristwatches ever made
It's also super handy to just put on your running gear and start running... I don't want a phone in my hand or in my gym shorts when running. I just need the watch to track my movements and when I get back home, I can sync it up to my smartphone, who will take the data, upload it to some running website and analyze everything (including heart rate data).
That's still one of the best use cases to justify buying a smart watch at the moment
Turbots | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?
It is inferred that the group would always work together on projects, so their availability would be the same... If you sell yourself as a group but everyone still looks for offers of their own, it kind of defeats the purpose
Turbots | 9 years ago | on: Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films
Oh, I listened to all of his episodes and King of Kings was one of my favourites (together with WWI and Eastern Front series). Goes to show everyone has their preferences :-)
Turbots | 9 years ago | on: Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
Please don't use averages... The big expensive cars pull up the average disproportionally.
Please use medians.
Turbots | 9 years ago | on: AngularJS Bootstrap Spring – Startup App
You should have a look at Spring Boot, which makes the Spring backend much easier to bootstrap/customize.
https://start.spring.io is your fastest way to production using Java/Spring
Turbots | 9 years ago | on: Scientists discover potentially habitable planets
Rotate the ship fast enough to mimic 1G gravity... Solved!
Turbots | 10 years ago | on: New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight
a smaller, lighter toy which goes Mach 3 and 10km
compared to a bigger, much heavier toy which goes Mach 30 and into actual orbit :-)
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