Fascinating documentary on Kubernetes for those who have 50 minutes. Gives more background to the "Container Wars". The filmmakers also have documentaries on the history of Python, Argo, etc.
Some highlights:
- How far behind Kubernetes was at the time of launch. Docker Swarm was significantly more simple to use, and Apache Mesos scheduler could already handle 10,000 nodes (and was being used by Netflix).
- RedHat's early contributions were key, despite having the semi-competing project of OpenShift.
- The decision to Open Source K8S came down to one meeting brief meeting at Google. Many of the senior engineers attended remotely from Seattle, not bothering to fly out because they thought their request to go OS was going to get shutdown.
- Brief part at the end where Kelsey Hightower talks about what he thinks might come after Kubernetes. He mentions, and I thought this was very interesting ... Serverless making a return. It really seemed like Serverless would be "the thing" in 2016-2017 but containers were too powerful. Maybe now with KNative or some future fusing of Container Orchestration + K8S?
I finished calculating my taxes for 2024. Roughly speaking 20k more than I had already paid was on the line. It looks like the amount I prepaid in 2024 will cover it though.
That being said it was a particularly gut wrenching 2 days going over the numbers / figuring things out as I waited to collect the W2's and other forms.
I can't imagine how dealing with $80 million USD and 75~ people's job would feel.
I recall an article recently about organized crime gangs infiltrating the USPS. I wonder if this is the case here? [1]
In general, the rates of incest are significantly underestimated. I have seen this anecdotally with the individuals myself and friends have dated, along with volunteering for sometime with CPS here in Texas.
It is unreported for obvious reasons, and few realize how easy it is to get away with. Families have lived in close quarters for a long time, and the opportunity is great for sexual gratification with another. Siblings often live in the same room. There are significant power dynamics at play when one sibling is 3 and the other is say 11. Yet there aren't the restraining forces of maturity on the 11 year old.
Sadly, the incest movement was probably set back 20 years due to its association with Satanic Ritual Abuse in the late 1980's and 1990's.
For those looking on help with this, I highly recommend the book "Courage to Heal" by Ellen Bass [1].
A sign of progress is that in the latest editions of the book, it also focuses on men. The early editions only focused on women.
Certifications would help distinguish you. It can be hard to evaluate the worthiness of foreign educational institutions, but certs, such as those for AWS and GCP can be great.
They often highly reflect what you will actually do on the job (assuming you are going to be a Cloud or DevOps Engineer), show discipline, and prove a high level of knowledge and the ability to gain that knowledge.
Other certs that I think are valuable include the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), Terraform Associate, and even the newer GitHub Certs. I'm sure others have valuable certs to add. It is always changing.
Is this a regional thing? In the US, I've never met another dev who's ever gotten a cert (to my knowledge) or even discussed one. Might just be my particular circles, though.
It's interesting how people pay for a degree, pay for certifications only to find themselves looked down on as people who don't have better things to pad their CV with. Looks like the best entries are previous jobs.
I mean, sometimes I wish our industry had more rigorous practices and standards. Web dev in particular gets more wild west by the day. But I've never heard a colleague even discuss a cert, much less actually have one (to my knowledge).
I think they're a good idea, just extremely rare in my experience. I've met more self taught devs and tech people, many of whom make bank, than anyone with a cert. I've seen them online, of course, but always thought they were a foreign thing for outsourced support and networking stuff. Maybe a double standard there where US nationals get different treatment? I dunno...
Also more to your question, "The Browser Hacker's Handbook" and "The Web Application Hacker's Handbook" I also think are really helpful in understanding how browsers work. Sadly a not better documented subject.
Visiting the list of APIs on Mozilla's website is also helpful.
Similar incident happened in 2005 in another part of the Pacific. The Captain, whose conduct was mostly well regarded both before and after the incident, ultimately lost his job.
Just use hosts.allow for select IP addresses while banning all else via hosts.deny. This is a very low level blocking solution that is native to Linux, very simple, and very secure. I believe it also operates "closer to the metal" and under xinetd, but I could be wrong on this.
I apologize in advance, but former US Army member with some gripes (well meaning though) against this group:
The ARL has been in somewhat significant trouble in Austin, Texas. There has been quite lukewarm (although not specifically negative) comments from Congress. Nothing has been really produced ... ever ... and this code is nice ... but "meh".
In particular the IG is looking at grossly inflated housing subsidies to several generals who wound up living in 5000~ sq ft housing (and between 5th and 15th street downtown). In return special deals were given to BAH providers in San Antonio for millions of dollars.
Lastly, and I wound up contacting DISA in Ohio about this, ARL would use the .army TLD from the registrar Donuts for a long period in the beginning. Obviously very bad for security, and not even sure how that gTLD got greenlighted in the first place.
This article calls Norway "neutral" during the war. That is a very generous analysis of the situation.
None of the Scandinavian countries have really come to terms with the amount they assisted and gave in to the Nazi regime during WWII.
In the case of Norway, the only
legal party in the country was the Nazi Party from 1942-1945 [1]. Sweden was similarly guilty, and would quickly move to pay reparations after the war. Most interestingly, this was arranged by I believe Linus Torvald's uncle (other members of his family have similar high positions in Swedish culture / history).
> In the case of Norway, the only legal party in the country was the Nazi Party from 1942-1945
Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Norway), so I don’t see how that could be an argument supporting your claim that “they assisted and gave in to the Nazi regime during WWII”
Some highlights:
- How far behind Kubernetes was at the time of launch. Docker Swarm was significantly more simple to use, and Apache Mesos scheduler could already handle 10,000 nodes (and was being used by Netflix).
- RedHat's early contributions were key, despite having the semi-competing project of OpenShift.
- The decision to Open Source K8S came down to one meeting brief meeting at Google. Many of the senior engineers attended remotely from Seattle, not bothering to fly out because they thought their request to go OS was going to get shutdown.
- Brief part at the end where Kelsey Hightower talks about what he thinks might come after Kubernetes. He mentions, and I thought this was very interesting ... Serverless making a return. It really seemed like Serverless would be "the thing" in 2016-2017 but containers were too powerful. Maybe now with KNative or some future fusing of Container Orchestration + K8S?
[1] - https://youtu.be/BE77h7dmoQU