In my generation and upbringing in a culture, where end-stage capitalism grass roots propaganda promised you great fortunes if you were only to apply yourself, few things were taken as granted as the ten thousand hours rule: To achieve excellency, you need to spend ten thousand hours with deliberate practice …
moreWrite down the obvious
I am somewhat fond of the concept of mantras, which are just short sentences you say to yourself, in order to behave in a way that seems to work better than what you normally would do.
One such mantra is "sooner is better than later" and helps to avoid procrastinating …
moreOptionality not responsibility is why managers earn more
A common lie managers tell, both to us lowlifes in the workforce but also to themselves, is that their higher earnings are justified due to all the responsibility they are carrying.
Of course this can not be true, because in pretty much no company beyond a given size, managers actually …
moreWhy 90 percent utilization is already too much
This is basically just a post which links to John D. Cook's post What happens when you add another teller?, because I always have to search for the link.
Anyway, just in case this very nice post ever vanishes, this is one of the most important possibly counterintuitive facts one …
moreThe toxicity of corporate creative exchange
One of the main reasons micromanagers and decision delayers claim for wanting people come to offices, is the so called creative exchange. Brainstorming and putting funny colored pieces of paper with ideas on cardboards is not only a favorite exercise of middle school teachers trying to have an easy day …
moreKubernetes - some practices
Maybe not best practices. But some practices. Some mentions of the worst practices.
This is a small collection of things that worked for me, my colleagues and most people I talked to, as well as some things that do not work, at least not beyond a single-dev-play-around-installation or your typical …
moreFitness and timed sets
When it comes to increasing fitness for everyday tasks, the first things that come to mind are usually classical endurance activities, like low intensity steady state (LISS) cardio or sometimes even high intensity training (HIIT). A dreaded proposition for any lifter that is looking to improve fitness for every day …
moreConfigMaps containing IP of first control plane member with kubeadm
When setting up a HA control plane with
kubeadmone would expect that thecontrolPlaneEndpointis being used in all places. However, this is not true (I suspect at one point it will be fixed, but I have not tracked down the corresponding change in the code).Thanks to my …
moreHow to get the most out of conferences
Problem: Conferences are often a waste of time and you do not want to be the dude that only asks questions to ask questions. A big problem here is the misconception that conferences are to bring people together and make them network, but this is not true.
The purpose of …
moreList of books
Apparently books are something people are interested in and usually when you go online and search for recommendations, you always get the same shit. So here is a list of books remarkable enough for me to make a recommendation against them, for them or how to use them.
I will …
moreIntroduction to kubernetes pt. 4: Monitoring
This is the fourth and final part of this little series of introducing kubernetes to system operators. In the first post I gave an overview about the general structure of a kubernetes cluster. The second post deals with managing ingress networking, as exposing services to the outside world is something …
moreIntroduction to kubernetes pt. 3: Storage
This is part three of my small high level Kubernetes introduction. In the first post I gave an overview about the control plane and in the previous post I explained how we can get traffic into our cluster.
In this post we will answer the basic question: When pods can …
moreIntroduction to kubernetes pt. 2: Ingress networking
In the previous post I gave a rough overview about the control plane of a kubernetes cluster, as well as some explanation on how to think about it.
Why a post about this? Can't I just create a loadbalancer Service and everything works? Or just create an ingress with the …
moreIntroduction to kubernetes pt. 1
In this series of posts I want to give a small introduction into Kubernetes. I am fairly new to Kubernetes and the first platform I designed just went into production and I found most of the introductory literature not so helpful in this process. My memory is still fresh on …
moreThings that rock
When it comes to software I usually hate pretty much everything and I was born the proverbial grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn". Especially in times where people have succumbed to atrocities like the initsystem that is everything, but a functioning initsystem, the sound management software that breaks …
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