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abronan

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About abronan

Distributed Systems Engineer @ Mantissa Labs. Previously: Docker, Kraken, Anchorage Digital.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abronan/ https://x.com/abronan

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    Comment #46734566

    > but swarm was never intended to be a kubernetes contender. Your comment is accurate for the original Swarm project, but a bit misleading regarding Swarm mode (released later on a…

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    Comment #46636919

    Oh no.. it has 3D Pinball Space Cadet and Doom, here goes my night :) Amazing work on this website! It encourages exploration and navigating the folders to see all the content.

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    Comment #37677046

    Since the article states that they're using Raft and not ZAB for the consensus algorithm and leader election, it must be less prone to bugs when it comes to electing a leader. Sinc…

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    Comment #37676539

    Thanks for this excellent article! Enjoyed it from start to finish. This gave me a good memory of the work we've done at docker embedding our own replicated and consistent metadata…

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    Comment #18688390

    I wrote the initial implementation of the raft subsystem and it was definitely not a copy/paste. We started from scratch (using etcd's core raft) with the transport layer being grp…

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    Comment #18282251

    This is without considering students whose parents have low revenue, thus getting access to financial help from the government. This was my case. Technically, I was paid to go to U…

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    Comment #17240067

    I have been using Ghost for more than four years now (I tried using Wordpress before but I was left frustrated). Although I know there are probably attractive alternatives (Hugo/Ne…

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    Comment #14445093

    In my French University, group or individual assignments had a very low coefficient compared to written exams (where it was almost impossible to cheat as this was basically like wh…

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    Comment #14435580

    Just talking about glassdoor, and their rankings are to take with a big grain of salt, especially for early stage startups and medium sized companies. I worked for a company that h…

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    Comment #13856101

    This applies to the entire industry, we are often inflating our products with terms that do not describe the reality. Technical accuracy is important because it can drive a purchas…

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    Comment #13704500

    For having worked with Jessie while she was still working at Docker (I no longer work there either), I can confirm that. She is genuinely radiant and her excitement for technology …

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    Comment #13614480

    You should probably disclose that you work for Docker. Looking at your profile/comments you seem to be openly hostile towards Kubernetes. On that note: this is quite representative…

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    Comment #13434579

    Adding a quick opinion here: I worked for one of these companies (working with libraries written by all of these) and it's just a matter of personal taste. Docker, CoreOS, Hashicor…

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    Comment #13363762

    I definitely don't get stressed when people are pointing out errors in my code. It's a sign that you can trust your coworkers. As some people mentioned already, I become stressed w…

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    Comment #13237230

    I maintain a list of my readings triaged by topics: https://github.com/abronan/readings This year was rough for me as I had to deal with severe symptoms of anxiety that eventually …

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    Comment #8650151

    I stumbled upon this tutorial: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/54/8b... it seems that you can at least assign co-processors to KVM virtual machines.