jeansilga

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Jean Silga, solo founder of Vixoris, building Klatos, a habit app built on its own metric: Habit Strength.

CNCF Kubestronaut, 15 certifications. I built and run the cloud native platform Klatos sits on, solo.

I write about software engineering, building a product from scratch, and the long game of getting better: https://jeansilga.substack.com

Launching soon at https://klatos.app

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Comment · 1 month ago

One way is to go the certifications route. CNCF has good ones. Various cloud providers also have some. And you can rent one or two virtual machines and try to reproduce the concepts you are learning along the way. Nothing beats practice.

Comment · 1 month ago

Before or after they capture the 30 trillions dollar market they say they are after?

Comment · 1 month ago

configmap that was updated recently and incorrectly: how would you know the cm update is the cause? How would you sort that out if you made 5/10 updates?

say a node is low on disk: what about setting up monitoring alerts for those king of things.

In general, alerts are of great help. An alert fired after an update is a big smell about that update causing the issue.

Comment · 1 month ago

Great that you finally found what's working for you!

Comment · 2 months ago

Nope. I ask AI to produce the code directly. I focus on outcome, not on the code itself.

Comment · 2 months ago

I was once tracking habits with an excel file a while ago. Works well too! An App can be move involved. For instance, excel files or papers can not send you reminders...