So, UGH.
I've been piddling with Kubernetes for a while, but the main tinkering piece I'm using has gotten long in the tooth. It's 1.21, and a quick check of the support lifecycle says supported ended 10 months ago. Even 1.24 will lose active support in about a …
read moreA few weeks on from my spot price post, we're still seeing elevated prices. While typically in these instance types we see 70% savings, we are seeing only about 50% now, at least in my usual zones and AZs.
I found this article which seems to indicate its bigger customers …
read moreI've been keeping an eye on my spend on a pretty much daily basis, and recently I realized that although my resource usage is steady, my dollar spend has been edging up slightly, where the billing tool mentions I'm now spending 10% more than this time last month. Now, the …
read moreI did a reflection piece last week, and I'm feeling a bit defeated and sluggish at the moment. I'd like to be optimistic and put a sort of plan together.
I think one thing I have to work more seriously on is automation and resilience. I have too many routines …
read moreReflection is important and recognizing failures is just as important as recognizing success. In the last few weeks, I've built a routine for some pieces but have seen some things fall away, and I'd like to retrench a bit.
First, good things -- I'm adding interesting Kubernetes things to my list …
read moreSo, while I'm working in the foreground on getting back into the swim of things with Kubernetes, in the background I have an older Java project I have to update. I thought this would be very hard, but with a decent base Docker image I have gotten good traction. I …
read moreSo, I've done some learning for cloud and Kubernetes, and I've circled back through my content notes and I have ideas on what I'd like to do going forward. I think I need to figure out the early history of Kubernetes, and maybe even talk about where Docker came from …
read moreI'm reflecting, planning and basking a bit, in an effort to be purposefully better going forward. One thing I want to do is complete the project lifecycle. What I mean by this isn't getting a project functional or good enough, but having it as complete as can be be in …
read moreSo, I've done some video content and I've been trawling for interesting Kubernetes-related content for about two years now. While I can do some things in K8s and have a decent basic understanding, I want to get into a deeper dive and understand containers more fully. One thing this means …
read moreAh capacity, that interesting measure about how much time we do or might have in a day. Theoretically it is how long we sleep minus the length of the day, but that means we don't think about overheads and likely miss costs like context switching. So if we suppose we …
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