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This is really fun!

Can't stress enough how great Compute is compared to EC2. A lot of the (enterprise) companies I work with are weary of going all-in on a particular cloud and prefer to hand-roll op…

There was quite a good thread about self learning electronics recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744

Just to add: I've worked on pipelines like this for dozens of clients and I'd be happy to talk more in-depth about your options, as business requirements do tend to influence your …

https://github.com/ankyra/escape (disclaimer: I'm one of the authors) We use Escape to version and deploy our microservices across environments and even relate it to the underlying…

Yeah, I think this is what people mean when they talk about simple Makefiles: running scripts + topological ordering. Building C is just hard.

Timestamps: it wouldn't be hard so much as expensive, because the program would have to go off to the kubernetes master for each resource to figure out the timestamp. This adds up …

Been meaning to write something up; will keep you posted!

Thanks, mogronalol. I agree that visualisations would be useful and I think using tests to create a virtualised service definitely has merit, because it kills two birds with one st…

> What if when building a service, the pipeline also created a virtualized version of the service as an artefact? Yes, interesting idea! I guess it does mean that there is a "testi…

It's powering huge infrastructures as we speak; Twitter, Airbnb, and many others: http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-meso...

FYI: this link gets me into a redirect loop (probably because of something NoScript related)

It changes your deployment "atom" so instead of deploying compressed artefacts, you deploy containers. This has some advantages in itself (eg. it makes it easier to do gradual upgr…

For Puppet you can use a validation script and a git commit hook to shorten the feedback loop on syntax errors: http://spoop.net/devops/2013/11/12/validate-puppet.html

The forking is not noticeable on today's machines; especially on this rather small scale. And yes, I would say that typing "cd `bm log`" is more cumbersome than typing "cdbm l". cd…