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Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:55AM (#25715142)
Yes, the initial syncing and indexing can take a moment. I would recommend joining a single Pub or SSB room [1] to find people and grow your network organically. The large Pubs [2] have a lot of content to download and also follow bots (which you would have to block).

[1] https://github.com/staltz/ssb-room/blob/master/FAQ.md [2] https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/Pub-Servers

Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:47AM (#25715063)
You need to connect with others. I think Manyverse is best used with SSB rooms where you can find others (to connect/follow), see https://github.com/staltz/ssb-room/blob/master/FAQ.md

Alternative is a Pub, but joining a Pub is not so great with Manyverse as it will download a lot of content to your mobile phone.

Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:40AM (#25714995)
The Oasis SSB client [1] is a webapp which you open in the browser. Oasis (like nearly all SSB clients) is a JavaScript package which you can install via npm.

[1] https://github.com/fraction/oasis

I tried it out (see https://twitter.com/try_except_/status/1333499056769937408) and got great support in the Matrix/Riot chat (https://matrix.radicle.community). Definitely looking forward to distributed git changing the developer landscape :-)
Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:58PM (#23362576)
I'm curious, did you use Patroni directly on Kubernetes or use Zalando's Postgres Operator [1] (based on Patroni)? [1] https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
Re:Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:57AM (#22802373)
It's a German registered association (e.V.), i.e. it's not only a single company or person behind it. Funding is done by membership fees. As a member you also get insights (regular newsletter) into the financial situation, e.g. how much money is on the bank account.
Re:Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:52AM (#22802353)
Yes, I'm actively using Codeberg for my OSS projects (I still have some on GitHub, too), e.g. https://codeberg.org/hjacobs/kube-web-view/

Some functionality is lacking compared to GitHub, but it does what it needs to do for me.

Re:A Kubernetes Crime Story on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:43PM (#21285657)
Great post, I will also add it to https://k8s.af (Kubernetes Failure Stories)
Re:Zalando Manages 140 Kubernetes Clusters on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:18PM (#21225792)
True, but at least they now have an API for account creation (AWS Organizations) --- it was really painful in 2015/16 to script (in the browser!) all necessary steps for account creation (add credit card, remove it again [to switch to invoice], etc)
It's not mentioned in the post, but PostgreSQL is the prime candidate to replace your MySQL: "The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database". We are happy users of PostgreSQL in Zalando since 2010 (we switched from MySQL). Here some old slide deck (2013) where I briefly "ranted" about MySQL: https://www.slideshare.net/try_except_/goto-2013whyzalandotr...
Thanks for mentioning my collection of Kubernetes Failure Stories! I'll use this opportunity to encourage everyone to submit their own postmortems :-) --> https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories
Re:Kubernetes Failure Stories and How to Crash Your Clusters on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:13PM (#21020826)
"He" is "me" in this case, thanks for the link (and contribute some postmortems!) :-)
Also check out our Zalando Postgres Kubernetes Operator which is powered by Patroni: https://github.com/zalando/patroni/
It's supposed to be run locally. See also my small write-up on Kubernetes web UIs in 2019: https://srcco.de/posts/kubernetes-web-uis-in-2019.html
Re:Ask HN: Do you run databases on Kubernetes? on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:51PM (#20732403)
I work at Zalando where we run hundreds of PostgreSQL database clusters on Kubernetes (on AWS) using our Postgres Operator (https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator). This gives us some added flexibility, quick startup (e.g. for e2e), and the latest PG features. That being said, I would be careful to recommend any specific stateful workload approach without good understanding of the whole setup (true for whatever cloud/k8s/onprem environment).
Re:Ask HN: How Do Big Corps Get Kubernetes Support? on Sunday June 30, 2019 @05:11AM (#20317203)
I can recommend joining the CNCF End User community [1] as it allows exchanging experiences around common problems, e.g. developer experience in a mid/large org, regulatory requirements (there are some banks in the CNCF End User community), etc.

For list of current members, see https://www.cncf.io/people/end-user-community/ (I'm working for Zalando and are co-chair of the CNCF End User Developer Experience SIG).

The CNCF End User community is a vendor-free zone, so you can also discuss and learn about experiences with certain vendors to have better insights before deciding on one ;-)

[1] https://github.com/cncf/enduser-public

Re:Kubernetes Failure Stories on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:35PM (#20177471)
Thanks, feel free to reach out on Twitter (https://twitter.com/try_except_/) --- we are always happy to share experiences on running K8s.
Re:Kubernetes Failure Stories on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:31PM (#20177441)
We try to keep it simple at Zalando, i.e. just using Mustache templating and wrapping kubectl to add extra commands. See https://www.slideshare.net/try_except_/developer-experience-...
Re:Kubernetes Failure Stories on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:28PM (#20177414)
As the author of the repo, I made it pretty clear that it's not about driving people away from Kubernetes. Please see my posts and talks about it, e.g. https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/038-kubernetes-failure... and https://srcco.de/posts/why-kubernetes.html
Re:Kubernetes Failure Stories on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:21PM (#20177366)
As the owner of the linked GitHub repo (also rendered on https://k8s.af --- thanks to Joe Beda), I highly encourage everyone to contribute their failure stories (I'm still looking for the first production service mesh failure story..).

Also be aware of availability bias: Kubernetes enables us to collect failure stories in a (more or less) consistent way, this was previously not easily possible (think about on-premise failures, other fragmented orchestration frameworks, etc) --- I'm pretty sure there are much more failure stories in total about other things (like enterprise software), but we will never hear about them as they are buried inside orgs..

BTW, I also have a small post on why I think Kubernetes is more than just a "complex scheduler": https://srcco.de/posts/why-kubernetes.html

Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:06AM (#19499109)
Triggered by Matthias' blog post, I wrote down my thoughts on the topic here: https://srcco.de/posts/why-kubernetes.html

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