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  • Reassign Team Members

    Introduction It's unlikely that an employee stays his whole life at the company at the same product/project so moving between teams is something which need to be explored and handled.

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  • Cassandra Kind Stateful Set

    Introduction I decided to play a bit with Cassandra and Kuberntes-in-Docker (kind). The tutorial (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateful-application/cassandra/ ) assumes you run either minikube or a real cluster and kind has some limitations when it comes to sorage classes.

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  • Logging as a Service

    Introduction In his podcast https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/searching-in-the-chaos-with-thomas-hazel/ Corey Quinn recently said: “You take a look at any of the log analytics companies and people can think through a wide variety of log analytics companies, it doesn't really matter which one, and at some point at scale you have to begin kidnapping princesses for ransom in order to pay for the bill.

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  • Running SMB V1 on a separate VLan on Ubuntu for Sonos Speakers

    Introduction Sonos insists on samba v1 to access music files on a file server. I have a small server in my network and this shows how I expose samba v1 to sonos on a specifc (sonos) VLan which I have setup on my router and my access points with a separate WLAN id.

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  • One on One

    Introduction I got some flag on twitter for throwing shade on some write-up about 1:1s: https://twitter.com/xgerman/status/1092212927531106304 Don't get me wrong the article is quitengood but I have some minor disagreements.

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  • Yolo_cloud

    Introduction Let's assume you have SLAs and there are costs associated with them: You try to run things as reliably as possible. Your databases are redundant, you carefully plan maintenances, and if a CVE happens you get paged and stay on until it's fixed.

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  • Technology Evaluation with a Balanced Scorecard

    Introduction Occasionally in the life of an engineer management asks should we use technology A, B, or C. they might even ask you to prototype with each and report back.

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