dave-at-koor

Great post. We (Koor) have been going through something similar to create a demo environment for Rook-Ceph. In our case, we want to show different types of data storage (block, object, file) in a production-like system, albeit at the smaller end of scale.

Our system is hosted at Hetzner on Ubuntu. KubeOne does the provisioning, backed by Terraform. We are using Calico for networking, and we have our own Rook operator.

What would have made the Rook-Ceph experience better for you?

I love how people responded to this question.

Just what I was looking for, a happy medium between Wix and Hugo. Plus, nice intro to Supabase, which is also supa cool. Perfect for another project I am just starting.

Thanks for sharing. Nice work!

Nice.

Nice tool.

I guess it's kind of a theme with data. It's like oxygen - taken for granted until you don't get enough. Or clean water. And incidents are so rare that we don't get good at handling them.

Interesting. Out of sight, out of mind.

In the early 2000s, I worked for a company whose IT department was excellent at doing backups on a regular basis. Except they never tried to restore any of them. Turned out they were only backing up the directory structure. I forget whether there was a major crisis over it.

Thanks for sharing.

I agree with your first statement. For years, I have been working on a website/app/community platform to support learning and debate about the productive uses of nuclear energy.

My vision is more of a combination of the best of Reddit, online courses, blogging, photos, video, learning games, and simulations. More of a slice across many different types of app, tuned to the topic at hand that interests me. It's fun to work on, even if my progress is slow.

Reproducing r/nuclear seems like a nightmare scenario. Lots of arguing. Tough to control the tone and screen out-dated information. It's the classic problem with social media, discerning the difference between reality and myth. Plus, reading through screaming matches is not a fun way to learn.

Aggregating these smaller nightmarish sites, who wants to do that?

Thanks for making your case. I tried a VPN service for a while to see what it was like to surf the web "from another country." It was with a provider "you can trust," but ultimately who can you trust? And it wasn't worth the monthly charge.

About the time I started learning modern JavaScript (~2015), Java developers were bemoaning the chaos of untyped languages for serious development. For me, it was nice not to have to worry about types for a while, and I resisted the move to TypeScript. If I wanted types, I'd go back to Java.

Fast-forward to this year, I was giving GraphQL a try, and the Getting Started guide I was following recommended the TypeScript path. Okay, why not? While it certainly has come a long way, TypeScript is still a land of quicksand. After wasting my time for a few days, I gave up. Better things to do with my life.

So I like the idea here. Do the minimum to get by, and otherwise try to ignore the madness.