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RDS is an example of something that is more expensive but can be better value - because a lot of the managed service stuff saves the time of those looking after it. 15 years ago I …

Perhaps more accurate is that there is no one root cause, but a bunch of contributing factors. I had a quick search to find my favourite article on this one, it might be https://wi…

Does ECS support mounting configuration files (without needing the configuration file to be on the host)? Being able to mount secrets and configmaps into the container file system …

Haha, I meant to add one to my comment but struggled to do so on mobile https://github.com/openshift/openshift-restclient-python

The comparison doesn’t include the (perhaps confusingly named) openshift library. All the ansible kubernetes modules rely heavily on it because its support for dynamic client (wher…

Same, where do I sign up for these kickbacks? The difference between datadog and doing it yourself is that datadog is a well thought through product rather than a cobbled together …

Cross AZ traffic became free in April last year https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/aws-data-...

Sent to Coventry appears to be Constructive Dismissal under UK law https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/unfair-and-constructive-dismiss... Of course it might not be worth the lawsuit.

Ansible - I first discovered it from a comment here, thought 'who needs a new config management tool' then realised Michael Dehaan had also written cobbler so thought it was worth …

128 bits isn't twice as strong as 64 bits. 65 bits is twice as strong as 64 bits. 2^64 ~= 10^19 - or 10 million million million times stronger.

Revert your playbooks and roles to the version of your last good deployment, and redeploy. With good version control, role version management and idempotent library modules, this s…

I don't think you're using it wrong, but the default for the trackpad is a hard click, as you say. But you can set the trackpad (Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click > Tap to cli…

I'm not sure why Atlassian would acquire Gitlab when they already have Stash (which might be called Bitbucket Server now - but either way is a fully fledged Git{la,hu}b competitor)…

It doesn't help that Scilly isn't usually used in isolation. Usually the group is referred to as the Isles of Scilly or the Scilly Isles. None of the islands is actually called Sci…

I found a bug in your page! The link to the Gitlab acknowledgements page isn't right (not sure what the correct link should be). Let me know what my bounty will be ;)

Or seq -f %04g 1 10

Another example is the regulatory requirement for data sovereignty to ensure data remains under the data protection laws of the organisation's country. With hosted Github you have …

You can use ansible as a library from python: http://docs.ansible.com/developing_api.html

And the reason for the other approach - global substitution (otherwise the caret approach is simpler) $ ls hello_world hi_there_world $ mv hello_world hello_everyone $ !!:gs/hello/…

Stash is far, far cheaper than Github Enterprise, and Stash features have come a long way in the last 18 months. * 250 user Stash license: $12000 first year, $6000 after [1] * 250 …

A couple and a couple of hundred are quite different though! The original post suggests ~$2000, not ~200k

What a pathetic [1] argument! [1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pathetic

You also need to factor in loss of productivity while bringing a new hire into an organisation. They won't be 100% productive (50% might be aspirational for some roles for the firs…

Do you have an Operations function in your organisation? As really DevOps is development and operations working together to meet business goals. If you do have an Operations person…