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23 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I heard a rumor that @clintsharp may have had a tranquil moment, and we can't have that.

Welcome to the hot seat, @cribl_io!
Despite a weird transient Google SSO error, I'm now logged in and staring at an empty dashboard.

I have to google a bit to find the CloudTrail story and it's... well, half marks.
So from a bit of digging it looks like it's great at the ingestion nonsense. It'll reduce noise I don't care about (AWS Config checks and such), then shunt the now quieter stream to something I can use to visualize / work with the events.

WHICH WOULD BE?
I dunno if there's something in the water with these vendors or what, but there's a strong theme of "the docs tell you to configure these things by hand" but a bit of digging reveals that yes, they have automation built for this. In this case, github.com/criblio/cribl-…

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22 Dec
It's been a while since I've livetwote the setup of something new, so let's explore @Coralogix which I have never heard of before today.
Their pricing presumes familiarity with how I'll use it, but the original pain that's driving me in this direction is "I want to make sense of my @awscloud CloudTrail logs." I think not having an explicit "contact us for Enterprise Pricing" CTA is a misstep.
I think detecting the region from which a customer is signing up would be a nice feature, but they may have a reason to prioritize the Europe region.
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21 Dec
Since a lot of friends seem to be getting MacBooks Pro, I will dump some of the things I do to set mine up as a former Grumpy *nix Admin(tm).

A thread...
I've been using vcsh (github.com/RichiH/vcsh) for years to manage my dotfiles. I'm redoing my zsh config this break to remove over a decade of cruft. Early returns are looking promising.
# This function means `cdf` changes directory to that of your frontmost Finder window.
cdf() {
target=`osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to get POSIX path of (target of front Finder window as text)'`
cd "$target"
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20 Dec
And now, a final "Opinions My Own" episode to close out the year, featuring @primitivetype.

(Video at virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/session-virtua…)
Dave Brown is the VP of EC2 at AWS, which is too many acronyms. He declines to address the platypus in the room.
"So you run all of @awscloud EC2. I'm not saying that's a high stress job, but you *are* only 22 years old. How do you live with that kind of pressure?"

@primitivetype: "Maybe in hex. The trick is to have an amazing team."
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13 Dec
Here's an unexpected thread from me; I never expected to write one quite like it...

A while back I had @ajyawn on the podcast, where he talked about @bytechek with me. It was a great episode, and I came away impressed by what AJ was doing.
buff.ly/3pYnCGO
When I saw this tweet from him, I reached out to AJ with a "sounds like someone raised a funding round, and congratulations are in order." This isn't my first rodeo when it comes to reading the tea leaves.

I was excited enough about what @bytechek does (helps companies get to SOC2 compliance quickly, because I am a nerd as well as a former SOC2 control owner) and about @AjYawn as a person that I asked whether I could invest as well.
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10 Dec
The @awscloud explanation of their outage earlier this week has been posted.

aws.amazon.com/message/12721/
Because this is incredibly dense and technical, let me try to simplify it. I'm sure I will be condescendingly corrected if I get this wrong...
"We made a change internally that caused a bunch of internal things to become extremely chatty, like AWS employees defending the company if someone says something even slightly unflattering on Twitter."
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8 Dec
So a question I posed in slack.lastweekinaws.com led to an unfortunate realization on my part:

@awscloud is too big, and has too many customers for the overall good of society.
"Well were things more reliable before @awscloud?" No! Good lord no! The difference is that I could have a bad day and take down a hospital. AWS has a bad day and takes down all the hospitals.

It's the simultaneous outage of everything that's the problem.
The worst part is that I don't even have the slightest clue how to fix it. You can plan and plan and plan around this. You can build out multi-region or multi-cloud until the cows come home.

And then one of your third parties did none of this and you're just as down.
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