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For a while I’ve been thinking about an app to keep track of my health properly, where I’m in control, fully local LLMs (with the option to use remote LLMs if desired).

How many tokens does “building a SaaS project” cost and how many of those are non-requirements?

In a 900 person organization, we still could not answer a simple release question: what exactly are we shipping to the customer?

You used to have a single place to look at your build and your deploy, now you have two systems.

Why does my build work on my machine but not on yours?

Does this email already exist?

The severity of an incident is not determined by the technology that failed, but by the number of people impacted by it.

In the previous section, we manually configured Istio to split traffic between two versions.

We’ve reached the final stage of our multi-region deployment lab.

We’ve spent a lot of time building a resilient, multi-region architecture.

Continuous Deployment is great until you automatically deploy a critical bug to every region simultaneously.

We have a GitOps pipeline waiting to deploy our app, but how does the new image actually get built and telling Argo CD to deploy it?

We have our GitOps pipeline, our cross-cluster mesh, and secure IAM roles.

When your applications run in Kubernetes, they eventually need to talk to cloud services - reading from an S3 bucket, publishing to an SNS topic, or querying DynamoDB.

Now that we can deploy to multiple clusters, we need them to talk to each other.

If you’re managing multiple clusters, applying manifests by hand with kubectl apply quickly becomes a nightmare.

Building systems across multiple regions is notoriously difficult.

Train teams on multi region, high throughput, chaos tested GitOps without burning money.

I’m currently building mooomooo, driven by my personal frustration with disconnected and manual work that I have to do in JIRA.

Problem You need safe, predictable traffic control in prod.

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Why do I need to build a docker container on every commit?

Implementing authentication from scratch often starts simple but quickly escalates into weeks of navigating RFC specifications and protocol implementations.

The reason why newcomers try to do everything at once or add everything they can is to prove they can do anything with the new knowledge they acquire.

Understanding how HTTP requests traverse an Istio service mesh is fundamental to effectively operating and troubleshooting microservices architectures.

Just say no.

Have you ever asked an LLM, “Build me a CRUD API in FastAPI,” and just hoped for the best?

3 ideas that help me be a bit more happier every day: The journey is where the fun is, not at the destination Allow yourself to be happy Find a purpose in life

Think of a network as a building full of rooms, doors, and room numbers.

What is a system?

In AWS, in order to access resources in other accounts without creating new users or handling passwords, you can use sts:AssumeRole .

For me, lateral thinking is: Solving problems using an indirect and creative approach.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we interact with technology, and I’ve come to realize that being familiar with something doesn’t always mean it’s simple.

In order to make it faster, we need to understand why it is slow.

Which architecture should I choose?

GitHub actions are a problem because they lock you by the balls and you cannot reproduce your pipelines.

A pattern of shared assumptions that groups have learned as they solve problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough in the past to be considered valid and therefore to be taught to new members as the correct way to…

Look outside your building.

A made up mind is hard to change (Jeff Bezos or Confucius, I don’t know who, but the phrase got stuck with me) If you stand still, you fall behind.

Society seems to follow a cycle of moods that last around 20 years each.

First of, congratulations!

As in the ship of Theseus… If you replace each Kubernetes component… what is it that you get at the end?

Or is it a perspective?

Docker multi-stage build is a great way to build a container images with a minimal footprint.

Big O Notation (or the Big O) is used to describe how long and complex an operation will be based on its input.

Ambient mesh is a new data plane mode for Istio that doesn’t rely on sidecars.

aka Pareto principle.

Update Jan 2023: Is OpenStack Still Needed in 2022?

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Define the scope of your system Start by asking this broad questions: Why is your system required?