Left Hand Of Darkness?
thelastknowngod
joined 1 year ago
I honestly love it. Of course it's not perfect but I don't ever want to go back to the old way if I can avoid it.
Most resistance I have seen mostly comes down to a misunderstanding in the benefits that kubernetes offers. The assumption is that kube is used for autoscaling and that, if the inbound traffic is predictable then the added complexity is unnecessary. When that happens the "kube isn't right for all situations" turns into "kube isn't right for any situation" whether the person in question would ever admit that or not..
All of this ignores the MASSIVE reliability enhancement kube delivers and the huge amount of effort currently going into modern tool development surrounding the kube ecosystem.
Real talk, you don't have the luxury of being an idealist right out of university. Your goal is to get a job. When you're in that job you will likely not have the luxury of being an idealist either.
When you have enough experience making practical, reasoned decisions, then you can stand on principals.
For context, I have been in this business for nearly 20 years. The people I have personally worked with who have resisted things on philosophical grounds ALWAYS get left behind. I've seen it with systemd, the cloud, and now I'm seeing it again with kubernetes. You cannot escape the collective inertia of an entire industry.
Obviously there are still thresholds.. I would never work for someone like Raytheon. You have to draw lines somewhere but saying you aren't going to work for a company that does user behavior tracking is short sighted and impractical.
Fuck if this isn't the truth.. Saying this as a Sr. SRE with no degree or certs.
It's the country of Georgia.
I only access banks electronically if they accommodate Tor.
So they know when you logged in and what you did when you got there. So you can't escape it there.
The bank only gets to know my physical location when I do a transaction where that’s unavoidable.
So you can't escape this either.
Even if I were to carry a mobile phone on standby wherever I go, the bank would get nothing from it if I don’t run their app.
They would get nothing except the time, location, amount, business, and how that relates to the other purchases you make and all the data those transactions generate as well. That data is shared with the bank, Visa or MasterCard, and all credit reporting agencies. This is unavoidable too.
You are not getting out of this unless you allow it to seriously affect your life.
I was like 6 when my grandmom suggested we rent The Amityville Horror. I slept with the lights on for a week.
I don't think it would bother me now if I rewatched it but I've also never wanted to rewatch it.. I guess take that for what's it's worth.
My man.. You are not getting around the tracking. It's never going to happen. Unless you literally toss everything with a network connection and disconnect from the electric, gas, and water grids, you are going to be tracked.
I use Resilio Sync. It uses a modified bittorrent protocol. You don't need to open any firewall ports or anything like that.. Really simple to get going.
This is a sync took though. Replication is not the same as backups. This may or may not be for you depending on the goals.
Blogs, news for each of the countries I spend time in, tech industry stuff, podcasts, torrent feeds, etc..