@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club This was an interesting read for sure! 👍 I don’t think it had anything I hadn’t already considered in terms of the ethical/moral points of view. I’m not sure where I stand myself either to be honest. I’ve forced myself to get familiar with the ecosystem and tooling, because in my line of work as a tech lead (staff engineer in sre) you don’t want to be that one guy that ya know 😉 Ethically/Morally though, I’m definitely with the sentiment of this post 😅 Much like the whole Crypto hype yaers back (if y’all remember?!) this is also one of the most energy hungry pieces of “tech” (if you can call it that?) in a while. Then there’s these other issues “stealing people’s work”, “reliance is causing humans to become cognitively weak and neural connections to shrink”, to name a few…

Move beyond basic threshold alerts! Define clear Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs) to track real user impact. Use Prometheus to alert when your SLOs are at risk, ensuring you focus on what truly matters to your users. #Monitoring #SRE #Prometheus

@bender@twtxt.net Bahahah 🤣😂 mate, me and one of my SRE colleagues actually came up with the terminology ourselves! 😛

What LLMs Can Do for SREs in Cloud Native Infrastructure
Cloud native infrastructure continues to scale, and with it, so does operational overhead. Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern platforms, but as cluster sizes grow past 100 nodes and thousands of workloads, the operational load… ⌘ Read more

10 Questions to Help You Decide Whether to Hire an SRE or Managed KaaS
Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud infrastructure. Over the past several years, I’ve been part of the decision… ⌘ Read more

This is an example of what I believe every SRE should master and whatever Post Incident Review (PIR) should focus on. Where did the system fail. What are the missing or incomplete Safety Controls.

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Eyal Zekaria
Get to know Eyal This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Eyal Zekaria is a Senior Cloud Architect in Berlin, Germany. Eyal has a DevOps and SRE background and has experience operating Kubernetes clusters at scale at different… ⌘ Read more

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Fangel Colón
Get to know Fangel This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Fangel Emilio Colón Navarro, lives in the Dominican Republic and is an SRE at Banco BHD. He’s been working with CNCF technologies since 2020. If you’d like to be… ⌘ Read more

Explain infrastructure as code (alternatives to IaC)
Member post originally published on AppCD’s blog by Kunal Dabir I was recently speaking with an SRE who, when asked for their opinion on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), shouted, “it’s terrible and our devs hate it!” Now we… ⌘ Read more

I did a take home software engineering test for a company recently, unfortunately I was really sick (have finally recovered) at the time 😢 I was also at the same time interviewing for an SRE position (as well as Software Engineering).

Got the results of my take-home today and whilst there was some good feedback, man the criticisms of my work were harsh. I’m strictly not allowed to share the work I did for this take-home test, and I really can only agree with the “no unit tests” piece of the feedback, I could have done better there, but I was time pressured, sick and ran out of steam. I was using a lot of libraires to do the work so in the end found it difficult to actually think about a proper set of “Unit Tests”. I did write one (in shell) but I guess it wasn’t seen?

The other points were on my report and future work. Not detailed enough I guess? Hmmm 🤔

Am I really this bad? Does my code suck? 🤔 Have I completely lost touch with software engineering? 🤦‍♂️

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One thing I’d like to have one day (and it would be nice if it were integrated into twtxt.net and other pods with a familiar and pleasant user experience on Desktop, Web and Mobile) is an e2e encrypted messaging that is self-hosted and federated that doesn’t suck operationally (so many complicated solutions that exist that are hard to setup even for a Senior DevOps/SRE)