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I did the above and truly recommend it. Great mix of theory and practice.

Out of curiosity, with COVID I imagine people are WFH more and there's a tendency for that to continue. Did you think about buying a desktop instead? Usually is much better value f…

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Ansible, there's plenty of material around it!

It really depends on what you’re optimizing for. If it’s money and FIRE, sure I guess.

The K8s docs offer ways of running on-prems, you can do it with nginx ingress daemonset + DNS pointing to the IP (or CNAME) of your workers. It's all covered quite well here: https…

That has also been my experience. Truth is, there are many good developers out there. Maybe they can't be bothered to practice for leetcode (and why should you do it if you do not …

I'm excited about the things I can build with software, not so much about software itself. All the problems we can solve with OSS tools.. is truly amazing! If a new database comes …

What sorts of features from 3.8 and 3.8 have you been seeing regularly used?

Hell yes.

We do adhoc pair programming when mentoring a junior or going through a tough problem together. It probably sums up to 2-4h per month. I wouldn't want to have it be obligatory or m…

What kind of UI are you building? What platform are you targeting?

Because it wasn't mentioned yet, Dropbox was quite magical as an end user tool. You use your computer normally with folders and everything is sync'd to other computers. Unfortunate…

Ansible licensing? I must be missing something! Do you mean Ansible Tower? Ansible is free and OSS. It has AWX which is the Tower equivalent but free. Yes. Ansible is a framework w…

I think you misunderstand how Ansible is supposed to work. You can put in the work (much less than ~ 6 months, I'm available for freelancing!) and have it working. By then you will…

In the case of bricking, a strategy I've seen is have two partitions in your flash (I am imagining your device has a flash?) then a watchdog can verify the health your deployment, …

Ansible can also run in pull-mode, just like Puppet. Is there anything that hasn't scaled well that you could share?

I've used Ansible to manage thousands of baremetal servers, you do have to build some stuff yourself but it mostly just works. The Ansible framework for gathering facts is pretty n…

Which city did you enjoy more and why? As someone who has entertained moving to either one day from Vancouver/Bc, am very curious!

> SF a condo might be 1M, but getting paid 250k+ for a job is fairly common. If you're in tech of course. SF and Toronto have many other professionals living in. How's the median s…

Kong works pretty well in their OSS version! You can start paying and get more features once you're used to it.

I would try to focus on really meeting them, have your 1:1s, ask them what the issues are with the product in their opinion, where they would focus efforts in the product, how they…