You make some great points, but I'm concerned that your preferred solutions may ignore the needs of working with peers. When I've worked with similar solutions before, we had a lot of on call, and it all went to the same person, regardless of who actually answered the phone.
There's nuance to be had in the middle ground:
The CI/CD pipeline should deliver releases, but shouldn't be the only way to put them into production. People often get this wrong and have to invoke CI/CD to even do a roll back. Putting something into production without CI/CD should be possible, but it should be loud, to avoid nasty surprises, later.
Infrastructure as code is great. It just happens to be backwards, today. We could all go back to point and click changes, if the infrastructure had full journaling (including who made the change) of changes and full rollback capability. Ironically, I expect k8s (or a fork of it) to finally deliver this.
the only nice thing I have to say about K8s today is that it's not locking myself into a proprietary cloud, or worse, VMWare. Today, K8s is towering mere centimeters above even worse solutions, all of them objectively awful. I'm not mad at anyone using any of these. We all know we want the freedom of K8s, but no one wants the bullshit interfaces it currently comes with. It will get better.
Anyway, interesting read. Thank you. The only way the current awful state of hosting is going to improve is by having this conversation.
I keep hearing "most people aren't ready for K8S". But there's no such thing. There's just whether K8S (or whatever replaces it) is ready for most people's use cases.
You and I remember this film very differently. I could swear it was excellently tailored suit in a number of really close up shots, early in the film. To the point where I thought the film was telling me
"This is absolutely his suit. Look how well it fits. Look how expensive it is. There's no way that what is happening here is as simple as he took this off of a dead mobster."
That suit had absolutely been tailored to his body.
I understand that actors want to look great, and so I figure they let him wear a suit that fit for most of the film.
After the reveal
that it's not his suit,
they do have some lines about it not fitting, which felt very dishonest, after the earlier close-ups.
I would have been satisfied with a throw away line of dialogue about the suit not fitting before the reveal. I would have laughed at it (the suit clearly fits great in almost every scene), but it at least would have made the reveal cool instead of silly.
I would have also settled for (and I expected) a scene where he gets the suit trailored properly. But if I recall, there was no reasonable way to fit such a scene. Which I get. I'm not saying this film would have been better by addressing my pedantic complaint.
I'm not really mad that actors get to wear clothes that fit - it was just a stand out moment in an otherwise seamless (pun absolutely intended) film.
At the start of that scene, they're inflicting harm that would still allow the dude to do everything he's done so far, just scarred. And the scars are appearing on his future self. It makes a kind of weird sense, if we stretch our imagination.
But they cross well past anything reasonable into injuries that would have just made anyone's past self decide to retire and hide out in the woods in Florida.
It made no sense at all by the end, that his future self was somehow still working for them.
Public transport might be another example, it'd be fairly safe to have a government funded monopoly on public transport as it's unlikely to compete with private industry for resources in a price-inflationary raw resource based manner.
He just puts on someone else's expensive tailored suit, and it magically re-tailors itself to fit him perfectly.
That's not how fabric or thread works. And it was deeply disorienting in a film that is otherwise careful to ensure that details like that matter and are reasonable.
But what if it actually is magic this time? Just this once!? And we miss the hype train?! (This is a sarcastic impression of real conversations I have had.)
How are producers/consumers okay with everything being so mediocre??
"You're always trying to make everything just a little bit worse so that you can feel good about having a lot more of it. I love it. It's so human!" - The Good Place
One thing that gives me some peace is that there was a metric fuck ton of lead (and other dangerous crap) in the previous generation's childhood. I'm sure there's plenty of new threats to my brain health, but at least my baby rattle wasn't lead.
So it's not 100% a guarantee that I'll go that way as I age further.
and for the large majority of people it would decrease appreciably.
I'm still concerned, since I'm planning to own a huge international chain of retail stores when I strike it rich and become a billionaire. (This is Sarcasm.)
Then tenants will keep more money, in any case where there's any competition in housing.
And in any case where there's no competition in the housing supply, tenants will still be unharmed because they're already paying the maximum amount that landlords can get away with.
I feel that after my kid was born, I lost the possibility of having a good night of sleep.
That resonates with me.
Hang in there. The sleep and free time stuff does get better.
I've been leading a fully remote team for most of the last decade, and I lately think a lot about modeling behaviors for my team, such as stepping away for 20 minutes to take a walk, or run some dishes or laundry.
Most of them. Certainly the ones that have unionized. If you know someone in the inside, they probably know if there's a union.
You'll see more unions in government work because while private organizations breaking up unions is ethically questionable; governments breaking up unions is just openly totalitarian.
If I can't negotiate with a private employer, I might be a wage slave, but I can ask the government for help.
If I can't negotiate with my government job, it's not actually a job, I'm just a slave.
Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon. None would still be business after recent decisions, if not for their market dominating capital size.
That is, their recent decisions provide no value to anyone else, and are made solely because they can, due to their size and anti-capitalist practices they have been allowed to get away with.
So instead you patch it on your end and call it a day.
Yep!
I'm looking forward to the horror stories that emerge once some percentage of those changes are made solely by unmanaged hallucination-prone AI.
I would feel bad for the developera who have to clean up the mess, but honestly, it's their chance to make $$$$$$ off of that cleanup. If they manage not to, their union is completely incompetent.
Intriguing!
I'm looking forward to your blog series on this.