Christopher Webber

The worst part about awards that are named after people is having known those people and realizing that they would be bothered by the idea of an award in their name because their humbleness is fundamentally why we are giving out the award.

Tech titles got you confused? Ben Rockwood breaks it all down at #SCaLE 22x—exploring the pros, cons, and a path forward for SA, DevOps, SRE & PE roles phpa.me/22xreg

It's amazing how quickly tech you haven't used in over a decade just comes back.

#musclememory

I know I've been in industry too long when I hear the training tell me that the largest HIPAA violation ever was $16 million, and immediately think: "Man! That was probably way cheaper than actually doing the work to properly secure the data."

I feel like this really requires a broader convo... because I agree with you, but also if you are an up and coming engineer that cant use LLMs, you're in a bad spot. I don't know how we properly communicate the difference.

@justingarrison.com I feel like you’re closer to this world that I am these days… What are folks using for the things we used to use heroku for… I have a small website/API I want to expose that isn’t static

Having spent my Saturday developing an application using Cursor, hands down, I want someone that's good at using AI, not the other way around.

Infrastructure management is such a shell game. The number of "Go create a secret, shove it over here, and then rerun now that you know the secret," is just incredible.

I really don't understand why it is so hard for vendors, etc to get behind the idea of installs are always automated... if I have to do special shit, your shit is terrible.

Sometimes there are processes at work that are just so bad, they're painful. I don't know what to do when I hit those except be frustrated.

Every time I go to use Siri, I find myself wondering when will it get as good as ChatGPT?

I feel like we are quickly approaching one of those inflection points much like we saw in the early days of DevOps, if you know how to leverage AI to do useful things and not gimmicks, it is going to be transformative… how we work is fundamentally changing

No, I just can’t type as fast as I think… I meant to say one of my daughter’s friends

I saw one of my daughters drive up in her own car and man it made me feel old. I will be joining these ranks soon. Please give those of us in the same boat tips!

My two favorite parts:
* CalFire and OES actively recommend and many among their ranks use it.
* It is a 501(c)3 non-profit

It has been a while but, I read the origin story and it made me smile.

Was thinking the same thing! Crazy to watch those spaces used for that. Gives me a new appreciation for that space.

There is a magic to the mutual aid system... but to your point, even in a place like California which is really good at fighting these sorts of fires we don't have anywhere near enough burst capacity...

I have been watching the fires all day... I feel you on so many levels. I appreciate that my family is well out of harms way but so many folks being affected.

I’m beginning to think of customer data as radioactive fuel or nuclear fuel. It’s an important part of what we do, but it needs to be properly contained, monitored and even more so there has to be a plan for when containment is breached…

Opened Instapaper for the first time in like 10 years… I feel old.