(I may do some of these! I'm writing this down in part to keep myself honest.)
Thought leading: Confidence is key. You can never admit that you are wrong. Win arguments by outlasting and exhausting the other party.
Nov 27, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
One of the interesting things about AWS Firecracker is that it is (one of?) the first OSS projects *originated* by AWS. It will be interesting to see how outside contributions and community are curated. Some comments after a 2 minute look at the repo/docs:
First, there is a Code of Conduct (github.com/firecracker-mi…). It is very corporate though where violations are reported to an amazon alias. If a real community forms it'll be interesting to see if this shifts to be a community driven thing.
Aug 26, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This coming week is a bit of a stay-cation as I hang out at home with the boy (9yo). I'm going to try not to get too sucked into work (but it is unavoidable). He wants to build a game in C++ together. We've decided to use SDL2 as the graphics library.
I'm watching some tutorials on building a basic game engine. All I can say is that C++ has changed quite a bit from when I last used it seriously. That includes my time at Microsoft and Google (building GCE).
Aug 5, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The US midterm elections are coming up and I want to support (with significant $) non-republican federal or gubernatorial candidates that have a chance of flipping the seat or are in chance of losing it. Do folks have resources for where my money can be most effective?
I'm not interested in (a) people telling me not to talk politics or (b) people telling me that my political leanings are wrong.
Jul 28, 2018 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
I wouldn't say that #Knative is overly complex. I'd say that it is early. Even the team says that it is only a 0.1 version. There is a lot to like there. Let me use all the nuance of Twitter to try and put some color on it.
First, the install story is more complex than it should be. YAML files with thousands of lines is huge. Much of that is HTML and such for dashboards. We need to find a better way. This also applies to Istio -- the install has config maps with quoted yaml that has quoted yaml.
May 10, 2018 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Super interesting response to my thread yesterday from @jmoiron (h/t @copyconstruct). Thank you! There is a lot to digest there and I don't want to do that thing where I deconstruct it point by point so I'll try to hit some of the high points. jmoiron.net/blog/is-k8s-to…
First off: Jason is frustrated and his experiences are valid! This stuff isn't where we need it to be and there are undoubtably things that won't pan out over the long term. We are still early in this game and it is chaotic and exciting and confusing. I share that frustration.
May 8, 2018 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I made the mistake of reading the comments on HN around Kubernetes and there is a common thread around Kubernetes being too complex. This is something that I've been thinking quite a bit about for quite a long time. /1
For some context I talked on this at the last KubeCon NA. Video is here: . Slides: slides.eightypercent.net/kubecon-2017/i…. /2
