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I think for AWS resources at least you are much better off with Terraform. Terraform supports new AWS services and features much more quickly than Ansible since many more folks are…

Perhaps a way forward is to talk with potential customers and find out how your software solves problems for them and allows them to focus on their core business. For example, as a…

I have four kids ages 14, 11, and twin 7-year olds. We have never watched TV, don't own any tablets, etc. We rarely watch movies (about a movie every 2 months or so), although I ju…

When I view the link, the lowest price is $29.95/mo for internet-only 10-Mbs

I do. I'm 47 with 24 years experience in tech. I don't plan to retire anytime soon. I have kids and a mortgage too. I'm still a Sr. Engineer, not a director or Sr. Director, but I'…

Developers who insist that their favorite technology is the best vs. what's the best for the task at hand, what technology will the team as a whole be successful with. Developers w…

At our small company we have weekly engineering demos where anyone can demo something they've learned which they think would be helpful for others. Could be as small as an editor p…

Have you looked at kops? https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kops/ https://github.com/kubernetes/kops

I have a Tom Bihn Synapse 25 ( https://www.tombihn.com/collections/backpacks/products/synap... ). I'm very happy with it. Seems like it will last a lifetime. The pockets are well o…

Have you considered https://www.consul.io/ ?

I've found http://exercism.io/ to be very good for learning a new language.

Sinatra is clean and well documented ruby code: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra

https://github.com/dougireton/vimfiles

1. Xcode: you'll need this to compile open source software on your Mac 2. Homebrew - Awesome Mac package manager: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew 3. iTerm2 - Replacement for Mac t…

first impressions: 1. Very cool concept and good execution. Your site is well designed. 2. On the homepage, it says "A ditto is a virtual you.", but it's not immediately clear why …

You should also look at http://www.sublimetext.com/

Siri is pretty good, but in my opinion there are few cases where it's really that much faster than using the touch gestures. It takes a surprising long time for Siri to respond sin…

Please please don't go to the Cheesecake Factory. Try someplace like Duke's on Lake Union, Lowell's in Pike Place Market, Oaxaca (very authentic Mexican in Ballard). You really sho…

As someone working professionally on a large ASP.NET site and at home on a Rails (MVC pattern) site, I would strongly encourage you to use ASP.NET MVC 3. MVC has much clearer separ…

Try http://rubykoans.com/ or for Rails, try Railstutorial.org