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On-call compensation: stipend vs pay-per-page
We moved to transparent stipend + time off after incidents. Morale improved; still hard to fill weekend rotations.
3 months ago
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github actions self-hosted vs cloud runners - cost-benefit reality check
curious if anyone has actually moved heavy build workloads from github hosted to self hosted on k8s to save cash. the latency overhead for provisioning ephemeral pods seems like a headache compared to just paying the bill. currently seeing this in our pipeline: is the maintenance…
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stuck on a weird DevOps edge case
i keep hitting this in DevOps and the docs skip the failure path. is the miss supposed to throw or just return null?
about 1 month ago
test post version 104
test number 104
Crazy that they haven't managed to dial it out after all these years, same with the wind effect.
They did with their new facilities, which kicked in on track mid 2023. Fundamentally McLaren were never good at modelling what the car did when th wheels were turned. As Montoya put it: you get one turn of the wheel, and that's you. Hamilton had a tough time adapting to Merc earl…
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3 months ago
Terraform module versioning without breaking 40 consumers
Semver + changelog + constraints. Major bumps require office hours. Boring governance wins.
4 months ago
EKS vs GKE for a team of 8 platform engineers
Chose EKS for existing AWS spend commit. Control plane ops still non trivial—don't underestimate IRSA/IAM sprawl.
4 months ago
Incident comms template we use (internal + external)
Status page → customer email → postmortem doc in 5 business days. Template in thread.
4 months ago