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Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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Business email, company, job title — what if someone doesn't have one or more of these? I know one can give fake information, but why are all the fields on the form marked with an asterisk indicating that they're mandatory? It's asking for phone number too?! Thanks, but no thanks. This is not for me.

This looks like a job for Mr Fake McFakeFake, CFO[•], Fake Enterprises, New Faketon, Fakeshire.

[•] Chief Fakery Officer

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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post #42
post #40

I used a disposable email service to receive the ebook. This is the permalink to the attached ebook: https://rainmail.xyz/attachments/nginx@filerpost.xyz/143/Clo...

Access denied!!

Yeah, it seems it got deleted. I switched to another disposable email provider, you can check again the link.

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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post #3
post #2

Needs a form fill with a valid email, but it really is the full just-released 300+ page book.

...and name, work, phone number, and requires consent to receive emails from nginx...

... none of which needs to be real :)

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

#47

Nginx is giving away an ebook with email newsletter subscription.

And also to use your email address to target you with advertising. Expect to see lots of Nginx ads on Facebook, Twitter etc.

I’d rather see nginx ads than the ones I usually see to be honest.

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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post #39

Kubernetes is an overkill for 90% of systems. The hype will die off eventually, but not before ruining fair number of projects. Death by overengineering. I wonder how things even worked before containers :)

What are some example where you think Kubernetes is the right choice?

When you have to run many different apps from 3rd party devs, having standard deployment format helps. Or on-demand apps, like ETL jobs.

Containers offer not much benefit if you're cloud native - you already have VMs and heaps of automation APIs.

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

#49
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im glad its an eBook, not a book. Since I work in tech, I am excited that its a eBook that I can search through easily rather than having to spend tons of time bookmarking and flipping through pages hoping to find what is relevant when I need it. Paper books have some novelty value but I much prefer the utility of full text search when its time to get something done.

Really? I like ebooks for novel style format, but for technical books - where I don't necessarily them read in a linear manner - I find them way worse to browse.

Likewise. Physical books simply lack the Ctrl+F key combo.

Re: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Step 2 in your comment reads like poetry. The sheer length of the sentence and the variety in vocabulary creates a rising, racing energy that forces you to stop and smile before you get to the end. Beautifully written! I’m going to save a copy for myself.

He must be a PR/marketing guy

Nah, he did not use "leverage" or "synergy".
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