Now that I've a bit more time on my hands (more on that later) the predictable swing back toward being able to do actual tech fiddling has started (I Hope).
I've been running nomad from Hashicorp as the compute coordinator for my home setup for a couple of years now …
Category: Log Tagged: log #worksonmycluster
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It's November! That most wonderful time of the year when your brain and being need a little more maintenance.
Part of my maintenance schedule is taking the worsening weather as a prompt to feel less guilty about not going outside and doing outside things -- i.e. getting to coding and …
Category: Log Tagged: log tech coding projects
Read More2021 was a year. I've seen the receipts.
In summing it up, I guess I'll preface it by saying that this, more than any previous year, was one where the shared experience of being the connected human was a more closely bonded one than ever. The shared experience definitely had …
Read MoreI'm allowed one cheat blog post, as a treat.
The twitter thread I posted a while back seems to have gotten some attention. It's reproduced on threadreader but that too shall pass (and I auto-delete my tweets after 90 days), so here's a reproduction.
This past week was my first week at elastic.co, where I am now a Director of Engineering - taking on the SRE group and making Elastic Cloud go (Elastic Cloud is essentially the SaaS version of Elastic Search - i.e. you can of course run it yourself, or you can …
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