Ben Wilson

Hah that's neat! I've always wanted to do an interactive talk. I know when I get the time and lack of severely crippling anxiety to talk in front of a room of strangers that's the kind of talk I'll do. Thanks for sharing man!

Hah nice interactivity!

Some callouts for SI already. I found it okay, it was only AWS at the time I looked but hopefully it's changed?

Terraform is cool still. Without drama attached you might prefer OpenTofu the fork, but license likely doesn't matter and the features are so close it's a bit of a non starter convo.

Current: frustrated

Hah love that. Just so long as you don't explain a firewall being like a Carburetor 🤣

That's cool, please update us with how you get on! Love to celebrate the wins

Nice! What was the question you handled best and what do you think was the weakest answer?

Now I do!

The trick is to lose it before you start. Be so jaded you turn to DevOps

That's a vicious cycle of applying and getting rejected. Not a good motivation. Then start identifying the "primary skill" companies are looking for and see if there's a trend in the roles you like the look of. Then go learn that in depth.

Companies like to hire T-shaped. That's someone who specialises in something they're looking for and then has a broad set of skills, but maybe not a great depth on them.

Start looking at jobs to see what you would like to do - don't make yourself miserable by applying.

You don't need those things. Same for certs. That said they're a foot in the door. So given a degree might be out of reach then a cert might be viable. It's who and what you know that gets you a career.

Being on support is a good way to get broad knowledge

Good choice!!

Argo or flux? 👀

vim & curl - pain mode! /s

kustomize has come a long way! Feels a little complex and nuanced
cue is the cool one these days. Can work with a lot of other stuff but you have to learn the language

> do not accept helm

try dealing with helm in terraform 🤮 Been there, hated that decision 😢

I think that's the beauty of it. It's an ecosystem. So scheduling is just one of those. It's event driven, drives new events and you can totally swap it out for something else if you wanted.

Karpenter is a good example of extending the scheduler to drive faster scaling.

Motion canvas has a really active discord - there might be some folks there which can recommend something.

If you land on something you really like gimme a ping I'd love to hear about it 🤝

Ah that's awesome. Yep makes sense, would be great to make them more generic for usage in tutorial posts - considered it myself but never delved too deeply into it to find a solution.

I was considering using it for a talk which would be interactive with external controls (websocket)

Motion Canvas A TypeScript library for creating animated videos using the Canvas API.

These look great! Have you looked at motion canvas? It can produce some beautiful animations in typescript.

motioncanvas.io

Hah! True.

That would make sense to be fair. I missed the part with it being backwards compatible. In that case. Heck yeah!

On a serious note. I can't help but feel it's a very go-centric choice. It might be a weird take but we know k8s is already pretty go-centric, so its own format will likely produce only a single official implementation.

Hopefully the API's remain YAML first!

Can't promise I wont do a flying kick and karate chop the air every time I say KYAML.

🥋👋 KYAAAAA-ML

The problem is, this doesn't scale well. It's an old pattern now which most operators are moving away from in favour of centralised node level approaches.

eBPF used for detailed observability. Even istio which made sidecars popular is moving away

Very interesting! Could I pick your brain for 20 mins in the next couple of weeks? These are the kinda of issues we are facing and honestly, a single concern is something I'd be keen for our product teams to be able to focus on. Too many toys

Would be keen to hear your experience. We are evaluating coralogix at the moment!

Trust in terraform but not your own tooling? 👀
Back yourself!

If I could recommend anything it would be take a similar path. Identify the problems, articulate solutions (in business speak) and build your skills there for yourself and hopefully your team. Failing building the team in that way, seek new employment!

I work in platform engineering, in a well funded team and even then the concerns still aren't front and center. Pragmatism always takes priority.

But it is nice when you eventually land something like this.

Before this I was seeking these opportunities out and trying to influence my teams.

Clickstack is on-prem. Formally HyperDX

clickhouse.com/blog/clickst...

Ah fair! Makes sense for that scenario. I take it you're aware of the tools which exist for importing common resources like this? They generate the HCL as well.

I've written generators as well manually. In the age of LLM's it makes it trivially quick