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Thanks BTW for understanding - that's my intention here, which is to call out bad companies for doing egregious sorts of things (along with me being pretty frustrated in general, w…

Forgot to mention: I don't expect anything positive to come out of it. I just want it to be a fair warning to anyone who would think about interviewing with them.

There was never an interview where you meet with Canonical execs. There was an interview panel where I met with higher ups and whatnot, but not at the executive level. That was a c…

Yeah - I'm still looking for that job fit. Takes a while sometimes.

They never asked for references.

"Tool" here. I don't blame them for not having a paycheck, I blame them for handling this incredibly terribly. If I had known there was even an exec-level review of my application,…

Er, sure it does: * No web UI. This may be a blocker for business folks who want to update a blog. This is a blocker for folks who are using devices like iPad's to update blogs (wh…

IMO, Amazon gets 'DevOps' right. It's mostly just called 'ownership' over in Amazon. (source: I used to work in Amazon as a systems engineer) You still have specializations - SDE's…

Security is about mitigating risk, not about eliminating it. Keep up with CVE's, don't provide a wide attack area (so lock down interfaces to your machine and don't expose much to …

FWIW, if you do need ELB support right away (and keep in mind that you'll have to look at it from each server's point of view), you can probably use https://github.com/opscode-cook…

Sort of, but not exactly. It's not API compatible with Chef server, and I believe you don't get the nice search syntax for grabbing node information across your fleet that match so…

You can use TCP/UDP/GRE for your traceroute packets with the -P switch: traceroute -P udp This is super useful if you're probing a network that's hostile to ICMP packets - it's a l…

The reasons that other folks have mentioned (static files, nginx is built for lots of HTTP requests), as well as basic load balancing between several 'worker processes'. Sometimes …

You can replace 'ssh loop' with parallel SSH connections, or pubsub, or...

Kick off Puppet/Chef runs? It's not too hard to automate these tasks, either (or even put a fancy interface around it, though of course this takes a bit more time.) It's also a bit…

I can't know for sure, but it's at least corroborated with quite a bit of research: https://www.google.com/search?q=usenix+configuration+managem... I'm a fan of both of those syste…

Author here. NT? (edit: you mean non-technical? I'm definitely not non-technical - I work as a systems engineer by trade.) And, yes, you don't need to use Chef or Puppet to solve t…

Author here. They do, though for a certain set of problems, you can get away with using things like Chef for coordinating lots of information between a lot of machines. My point, h…

You can use LDAP logins and passwords with SSH by using pam_ldap - but since you only allow SSH keys, it'll be a non-starter for many orgs to use your product. Best of luck - I'll …

So, tell me - what would this tool offer over, say, RunDeck or mcollective? Why only use SSH keys? (What if I'm using LDAP across all of my machines?) I'm not trying to knock your …

I think the problem isn't inherently the class content (in 'soft' subjects), but how decent the professor is in letting students get by with weak arguments in their papers. I think…

Maybe they'll come in, then leave as soon as they're all settled in.

Seattle is crazy awesome for startups, but man, SLU has changed a lot since I last worked there a couple of years ago at a research lab (and I think it changed for the worse - way …

Obvious troll is obvious. As I've said in the past, the consensus is simply "use a CM system," especially if you have to maintain these machines for a while (or if you have 50+ mac…

Over at Seattle Biomed, we keep everything in the same branch (for now) - all of our nodes are defined in nodes.pp, and we have modules that install software/configuration files as…