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Mix is absolutely awesome. One of the most carefully organized open source projects that I've seen. Some years ago I made a Mixxx demo video with a DYI "integrated controller". It …

True story ^^^^^ Add to this, that you can have outages due to operational complexity, which tends to happen in complex cloud native setups.

People want simple answers. "It depends" annoys everyone :-\

>I wonder if there is some major propaganda push on HN to discourage actual >software engineers from ever running their servers How to scare a computer engineer in 2024? Invite him…

Yeah, the Emperor's New Clouds. Sometime ago I thought I was crazy and everybody else was right :-) but now we are seeing more and more people doing the numbers. https://logical.li…

Agreed, in general. But don't forget about the definition of micro :-) This is an optimization problem rather than a conceptual one.

I love Martin Fowler's one pager called Snowflake server - it aged very well and I still use it as a reference in the cloud era. And this text is also good advice IMO. What I feel …

Thanks for sharing the story. Despite the whole TCO being higher, I wonder how the 8K to 6K reduction happened. On AWS, fargate containers way are more expensive than VMs and non f…

> There's also an even bigger problem that can arise, the distribution can just end, such as the termination of CentOS If you are doing something serious you probably want to chose…

>reproducibility isn't just on your deployments, it's for development too Absolutely. Adhoc configurations should be forbidden! It is easy to ensure dev env reproducibility when yo…

My thoughts and prayers :-\ Wish you a quick recovery!

Thank you as well, for sharing these notes about your setup. Indeed concentrating everything in the same monitoring system is very helpful as it reduces the cognitive load. You can…

> Honestly I just think you should be more generous I am generous in the context for generosity. Turns out that engineering is not about being generous but rather about choosing th…

You might be right - maybe Apple's poorly operated bug bounty is a result of incompetence rather than intentional malice. But does that matter to security researchers or the public…

> Good luck finding someone to understand what that 'custom Naemon' plugin is doing. You Kubernetes people get triggered very easily. I was already lucky to have found several juni…

The longer you wait the harder the pain. The less you wait the more frequent the pain. So it depends on the function that converts intensity and frequency to suffering :p But, most…

Like 12 years of life cycle is not enough for you to plan a transition? You can use the entire life cycle but not one is forcing you to. You can update from one LTS to another ever…

Also "scalability" is multi dimensional. I've seen, in the same company, infinite scalability in one downstream system whereas the upstream system it depended on was manually feed …

I am curious about this too but haven't had the time to give it a try. Looking forward to hear about experiences.

The questions are short but the answers would be long. Puppet manages all fine grained OS resources (files, dirs, repos, cronjobs, sudo declarations, firewall rules, etc) and you a…

I don't mind elaborating - the fact that people are asking me questions reminds me that I need to invest a bit more effort on some articles. This case is actually pretty simple. Pu…

Once you do it for long enough it might be worth it to consider configuration management where you declare native structured resources (users, firewall rules, nginx reverse proxies…

Well that's exactly the point! Creating complex cloud resources with, for instance, Terraform, is less reproducible than a shell script on an LTS system like Ubuntu or RHEL - that'…

I had the exact same business for 18 years :-) and yes, without corporate nonsense it is easy to retain intelligent people. Cheers

My comment about pip is orthogonal to Docker. This is the same with or without Docker - I added a comment on this thread with more detail.