DevOps’ish

I spoke at DevOpsDays Raleigh this past week. It’s always good to visit Raleigh; I consider it a second home (sorry I didn’t meet with more friends). The event was incredibly well done. The event staff and volunteers did a fantastic job on all facets of eventing. I took meetings in an old control room for the event space which was a true blast from the past. My notes doc included two interesting stats. Stat #1: 56% of women leave tech before the age of 35 - This is just sad especially when you consider women comprise a mere 28% of tech in general. This needs to change. It starts with using the privilege of the majority to help out the minority. Those of us in the majority have a duty to advocate for people not in the room. Stat #2: Google expects 50% of all new code to be written by AI as soon as next year. This accelerates in the following years too. That’s wild to think about. We’ll be managing agents and subagents soon enough it seems to do not just coding but things like my slides from my talk, Open Source Survival Guide: 10 rules to keep you sane in the open source world, this week. I used Claude to restyle the deck from when I gave the talk at All Things Open. Claude did a surprisingly good job at matching the color palette of <shortconsulting.io>. ...

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Happy Easter! This week, I needed a term to describe the Easter Bunny as sneaky, and I came up with “Resurrection Rabbit.” Max thought it was funny in Elmer Fudd parlance, “Rascally Resurrection Rabbit.” One of the news items this week was the revelation that, thanks to a faulty build step, Anthropic leaked at least some of Claude Code’s source code. I was fortunate enough to obtain a copy to give it a cursory look. But others are already discussing what they are learning from the source code now that it’s out in the wild. I found the included pieces interesting, as well as an article about the .claude directory. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a threat to 18 US-based tech companies that they would be deemed military targets. One had already been attacked, as we’ve already seen with AWS. But, this threat also included a date and time: 1 April, 8 PM (Iran Standard Time). It appears the AWS region in Bahrain, me-south-1, was targeted again and AWS is scrambling to recover capacity. There’s some dispute over whether an Oracle facility was attacked in the UAE. I have many concerns about this war, one of which is whether these tech companies can continue to sustain the costs of being drawn into this conflict because of their work with the US government. The long-term effects of this conflict remain to be seen. ...