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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to stay employable in tech in the next 1...
on Thursday January 18, 2024 @11:07PM (#39051457)
I am a devops engineer working mostly with platform engineering managing over 80 eks clusters, I am learning more AI an embracing AI, it makes my job much easier and helps me write tooling faster. I notice people at work that resists AI and like to do things the way they have been doing it for years. I wrote an Azure wrapper that helps my team debug kuberntes issues in real time using AI , it also analyzes deployments and makes recommendations and this has caught the attention of teams that are now using my tool to debugg their workloads.
My company already is doing a hiring freeze and we have a lot of work so having tools like OpenAI has been invaluable to help me with my daily work.
Re:Ask HN: What should I learn/study to get a high-paying, impactful r...
on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:55PM (#30156636)
one field that is highly paid is devops . not very difficult to learn either.
Re:Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life
on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:57PM (#30155122)
you are very lucky to be in your 30's, there are so many things you can do after work. Join a gym, volunteer, online dating is fun in my 30's I had dates almost every week got to meet a bunch of beautiful girls, also got into running and joined a running club, volunteer. also going to a bar is fun you can go to a bar and just meet a few locals in your neighborhood. Also it depends on where you live. maybe if you are working as a developer you can get a job that is fully remote and travel and work from some fun place like Thailand or Spain .
Re:Ask HN: What’s the best way to help people in Afghanistan?
on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:53AM (#28209850)
it was so sad seeing those people hanging onto the jet engines of american planes to later fall off :( , what makes someone forget reality and assume that they would be able to survive a trip on a jet engine ? Desperation ?
I hope the Taliban might be a little more moderate this time and that innocent people won't lose their lives because now they are in power.
Re:I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka
on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:28PM (#27547073)
the book was really good. However, just because you liked it why do you have to mandate your employees to read it?
Why not just make a recommendation.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 OpenBSD based home computer/gaming console
on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:57PM (#27373316)
this could be a great project. also the raspberry pi is very affordable. However, i think the best raspberry pi would be the raspberry pi 3 as the raspberry pi 4 requires a different ac adapter with usbc c and also a special hdmi cable so that increases the price of entry.
Even writing a game system for the raspberry pi zero w would be amazing.
Re:Ask HN: My company wants me to give up my own code / utilities is t...
on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:09PM (#27131932)
I wrote these utilities not on company time but my own time. I automate a lot of stuff since I also did a lot of AWS consulting.
Ask HN: My company wants me to give up my own code / utilities is that legal?
I work as a cloud engineer. With so many years of being in this business. I have developer many custom utilities do to a lot of stuff much faster with cloud providers. a lot of it are custom scripts python /bash / that helps me do a lot of my work more efficiently. These are tools that have grown over time that do help me a lot and mainly i use them myself just to make my job more efficient....
Re:Ask HN: What to do with a bunch of raspberry pi zero w's
on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:22PM (#26719479)
thank you this is a nice nifty project :)
might take a stab to make one of this devices with one of my pi's
Thank you for sharing
Ask HN: What to do with a bunch of raspberry pi zero w's
I am lucky to live near a microcenter so for the past 2 years every week i take walks and buy a raspberry pi here and there. I have a bunch of them pi zero w's . So I have a bunch of them and i want to work on a little project with them. So far I have been able to use them to run docker and data science containers using jupyter notebooks to learn python and now i want to do something with...
Re:Ask HN: How Does a Canadian SWE/Data Scientist Make a Move to the US?
on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:30PM (#26040226)
Hi, I think you should not try to sell yourself as a Data Scientist. I have worked for many startups and in the past they felt they needed to hire a data scientist, however many of them are expected to be able to do data engineering/ devops. Automation with AWS/ Azure in addition to running their analytic workloads in whatever the latest and greatest is at the moment. Eventually the companies do not see value on that role and i have seen those rolls being chopped. If you know data engineering and manage full analytic pipelines in aws, and automation with terraform , cloudformation that will open up the doors for many roles. Hope that might give you some idea on how to market yourself here :)
Re:Ask HN: Tips on moving from macOS to Windows 10
on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:36PM (#24709951)
I use both mac and windows and when i need to use command line utilities i use MobaXTerm give it a try is a really nice terminal for windows and also allows you to install other unix utilities .
Re:Ask HN: Google just kicked me out of my account, no option to verify
on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:09PM (#24709621)
while your phone is out for repair can you call the repair person and ask him to give you the code sent from google?
Re:Ask HN: Is it fair to resign a job after a Month due to not a good fit
on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:46PM (#23827960)
thank you , I care about the company and i don't think i want to leave because i think highly of myself and i think this is beneath me, I just feel someone else could do this role and find it a better fit than me. I am a cloud infrastructure engineer with lots of experience that I can't use here since this job can be done by a linux administrator. I will chat about the need to bring devops and hopefully they know i come from a good side and not being critical of what they do.
Re:Ask HN: Is it fair to resign a job after a Month due to not a good fit
on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:44PM (#23827950)
thank you for your advice. I never want to leave bad impressions. In fact i respect my employer and i think anyone would just coast and get paid at this job but that is not me. It is not fair to them and it is not fair to me as i feel i am regressing instead of learning .
Ask HN: Is it fair to resign a job after a Month due to not a good fit
Thanks for any advice. I am a DevOps enginer with lots of experience with many technologies. During the month of April i got a few companies reaching out during the pandemic and i was lucky to get a job with a company looking for an SRE, from the outside the company needed someone with my skills and the team was nice and I thought this would be a good fit for me so I took the job.A month into...
Ask HN: Transitioning to Restrictive Environments
I recently got a new job in this pandemic. I am so grateful that i got a new job with a good salary. I am a devops engineer where in the past i had full access to all AWS environments and had my own laptop where I could install vagrant , virtualbox docker. However, this new company is a fintech company and as such the security is very high on the laptop. Basicaly my laptop is a dumb...
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:23PM (#23193980)
this is a pretty cool project :) really nice idea
Re:Ask HN: Random upper back pain is ruining my life. At wits end. Any...
on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:17AM (#21388103)
Sorry you are feeling this pain. I came across this youtube channel of a chiropractor in Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dLOl66n2g. Guy is amazing and has helped a lot of people who were in so much pain even while walking into his office these people were suffering and almost immobile and after a visit they felt much better. Watch some of his videos.
How does kubectl exec works
Re:Ask HN: What can I do with 15 raspberry pi zero w's
on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:13PM (#20802270)
thank you these are awesome suggestions. Specially I think I will use 3 pies for the foldingathome.org. seems like this is a great use of these mini computers. Also the swissArmyPi looks great as a hacker pen testing device . Thank you so much
Re:Ask HN: What can I do with 15 raspberry pi zero w's
on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:19PM (#20801717)
Thanks for your suggestion. I was trying to run docker but docker does not run on the Raspberry pi zero w. I wanted to run etcd as a docker container but the zero w is not powerful enough or a good docker distribution does not exit. I can install etc using Ansible :) so I might try that.
Re:It is difficult to see how WeWork will ever be profitable
on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:45PM (#20801336)
I worked at a few WeWorks and many of their floors had rooms that were vacated and empty. When we left We Work they offered us big discounts so that we would not leave them. If a recession hits I think they will lose a great deal of customers.
Ask HN: What can I do with 15 raspberry pi zero w's
I happen to live close to a Microcenter. They happen to have the Raspberry Pi zero w for 5 dollars , so every weekend I walk to the store and buy a Raspberry pi zero w. I have around 15 raspberry pi's and I am looking for an interesting project to do with them. So far I have a few project running. 1.- Raspberry Pi zero W VPN server which I use to vpn from work into my home. 2.- I am...
Re:Full Wikipedia Hosted on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:49AM (#20800809)
Hi, Yes this was a very simple project. Basically I had a raspberry pi zero w , installed apache and setup a virtual host that forwards all request to a another back end. Basically the Kiwix software that serves the wikipedia Zim file runs on port 8080. The raspberry pi has a 32 gig card and not enough space to host the 82 gigs of the wikipedia zim file. I had a spare external drive that I formatted in ext4. Originally the drive was formatted as extended FAT32 but the raspberry pi showed a lot of high CPU when accessing the Fat32 partition. I formatted it to ext4 and mounted the volume and downloaded the wikipedia zim file. Then I created an index file for Kiwix server and, started the Kiwix server and restarted apache had wikipedia running on a raspberry pi zero w. It did crash, I was thinking of adding cloud front as I have a free AWS account but I haven't got to it yet :)
Full Wikipedia Hosted on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta
on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:49AM (#20743929)
off topic: If you have a raspberry pi zero w and a large SD card you can download kiwix an offline wikipedia reader that has a built in webserver. It is amazing how you can download wikidedia full or subsets of it and have it running out of a raspi w zero. I am working on a walkthrough on how to do it so I will be posting an article soon.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4
on Monday June 24, 2019 @09:52AM (#20263512)
I have a raspberry pi zero w that I use with PivPN and Pihole and also I compiled tor on it. I can vpn into my home network , use tor as my socks 5 proxy and I also use pinhole to deal with tracking and advertising. best 5 dollars I've ever spent.