This is the most coherent take I’ve seen on the current state of the left/right, Republican/Democratic divide in the U.S. today. I had a hard time not pull-quoting the whole damn thing, but here’s one of many head-nodders: The American creed has... | Growing Desperate | Just some white guy. I used to write about software stuff. Nowadays I’m looking for ways to put out the myriad dumpster fires people like me set, stoke, and pour gasoline on since forever ago.| Growing Desperate on Svbtle
UPDATE 2018-1-8: Don’t do it this way. Use the k8s support built in to either the official autocluster plugin (for RabbitMQ 3.6.x) or the new built-in peer discovery feature in RabbitMQ 3.7.x+. UPDATE 2017-3-18: Improved the postStart command... | Growing Desperate | Just some white guy. I used to write about software stuff. Nowadays I’m looking for ways to put out the myriad dumpster fires people like me set, stoke, and pour gasoline on since forever ago.| Growing Desperate on Svbtle
“[I]f you cut corners in the short term, you’re borrowing against the future maintainability of the software and that at some point, not unlike a credit card, you’ll pay down that debt by going back and fixing the hacky solutions that were put in... | Growing Desperate | Just some white guy. I used to write about software stuff. Nowadays I’m looking for ways to put out the myriad dumpster fires people like me set, stoke, and pour gasoline on since forever ago.| Growing Desperate on Svbtle
While Docker is a very cool technology that holds a lot of promise for the future of devops, it’s not always the best fit for JVM-based apps. The standard approach of baking every runtime dependency into the image and running each container as a... | Growing Desperate | Just some white guy. I used to write about software stuff. Nowadays I’m looking for ways to put out the myriad dumpster fires people like me set, stoke, and pour gasoline on since forever ago.| Growing Desperate on Svbtle
When the CoreOS folks announced Rocket, it was with much concern over the “new direction” of the Docker project, as they saw it. They felt compelled to launch a competitor to Docker because Docker was straying from its roots as being merely a... | Growing Desperate | Just some white guy. I used to write about software stuff. Nowadays I’m looking for ways to put out the myriad dumpster fires people like me set, stoke, and pour gasoline on since forever ago.| Growing Desperate on Svbtle
When I first proposed that we start doing all of our new development at Democracy Works in Clojure instead of Ruby, one of the first concerns brought up by my colleagues was developer recruitment. The assumption–which I agreed with at the time–was... | Growing Desperate | Just some white guy. I used to write about software stuff. Nowadays I’m looking for ways to put out the myriad dumpster fires people like me set, stoke, and pour gasoline on since forever ago.| Growing Desperate on Svbtle