carlosf

Here is what I'm doing:

- All work is meaningless, so I started seeking the ones that pay the most (banks, hedges, FAANGs).

- By making a lot of money early, I plan to soft retire in five years (with 35) - I will take a loooong vacation, then work as a freelancer / consultant as I please.

- Without the fear of starving or being old without cash, I will pursue stuff I like.

PM me in five years and I will tell you whether I succeeded.

I use Nomad a lot in my company and I really like it.

Our team tried to migrate to AWS ECS a few times and found it much harder to abstract stuff from devs / create self-service patterns.

That said it's not a walk in the park. You will need to scratch your head a little bit to setup consul + nomad + vault + a load balancer correctly.

Well written!

When I was part of academia I was under the impression we were aiming for publishing papers, which is why I left.

In my first job as a sysadmin I tried my best to support business and two things happened:

1 - My paycheck did not increase when business was successful.

2 - When something broke as a result of assuming risks to deliver stuff, I was blamed, not business.

So I realized the most rational thing I could do was to become a bureaucrat and ended up leaving.

Now I work in a place where business and IT are in the same team and have the same financial incentives. I tend to make reasonable consesions and business people actually care about security and keeping tech debt sane. Pretty cool.

Installing python does not require admin permissions in Windows, just choose $HOME/... as install path.

It also does not require admin permissions in Linux, although most distros do not offer a happy path for that.

+1

My company's internal apps use a mix of VPNs and IP fenced load balancers. We are migrating to app proxy.

No inbound connections + access based on Azure AD identity with conditional access (restrict apps to Intune enabled corporate devices) and MFA is an absolute killer.

My only complain is that connectors are not very DevOps friendly. Cloudflare Tunnel is much better in this area.

+1

During the past three years I went from being my workplace's Windows hater to ditching Linux in my personal machines in favor of Win + WSL2.

I have the opposite use case.

Most of the stuff my company is running is made up of data pipelines and machine learning pipelines. So we have a lot of infrequent jobs that don't really care about latency.

Oof

Makes sense!

I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature.

If App Runner ends up supporting private deployments then we can have a true Cloud Run competitor.

Really cool post!

From the architecture, it's not really clear to me why Lambdas have the 15 min limitation. It seems to me AWS could use the same infrastructure to make a product that competes with Google Cloud Run. Maybe it's a businesses thing?

> The pricing model is admittedly a bit complex, but from what I've been told it is a fairly common pricing model in this industry

Yes, but that's one of the reasons Public Clouds are thriving.

Not sure if that's the case with others, but I have a really hard time connecting CT with actual applications. My classes were full of complex maths and toy examples, but very weak in actual engineering and heuristics.

I'm a paying customer and I agree.

Meanwhile many core features are still unpolished e.g.: running your own runners sucks and you can't test CI/CD locally.

Yeah models assume future data can be predicted with past data, which of course is not always true in real life due fundamental limitations of statistics, such as very fat tailed distributions in stock markets.

Competent data scientists must be able to spot those cases quickly.