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It has been a stressful and challenging past few weeks. But, it’s all worth it in the end. My KubeCon schedule is taking shape. I’ll be in L.A. starting Saturday, so if you’re around, feel free to ping me to chat or hang out. I mentioned on the CNCF Ambassador call last week something I’ve noticed recently. Thanks to the pandemic, my already sometimes tough to manage anxiety around large crowds in confined spaces is WAY worse. I’ll be in a corner or room during keynotes. If you have anxiety around large crowds too, feel free to come watch keynotes with me from a safe space. We’re doing something a little different on Red Hat Livestreaming next week. I’m going to sit in the hot seat for once and get interviewed by the esteemed Stu Miniman. There will be a special announcement during the stream, so be sure to check it out at 4 PM ET on October 6th. People In-person Zoom is the new norm for many workers returning to the office If you’re in this position, I feel for you. I get it, some folks don’t have homes conducive to working from. I’m lucky as all get out that I can have a basement finishing project in flight and still have space for an office I can close the door to. I also feel like there has to be a better way. ...

People Why you need a personal laptop I’ll be adding a new laptop to the desk soon. Learn about leveraging the right type of AWS IAM policy mechanisms to build the responsibility separation between the “central” team and the individual “development” team. SPONSORED Upset by porn and ‘immoral content,’ a man planted pipe bombs outside cellphone stores, FBI alleges Because before the internet immoral content was better? Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time (DST) “DST was implemented in 2010… to give more time after work to tend to their plantations, promote public health, and save fuel. Instead it defeated its own goals by being used by people to socialize more” EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones “The rules are intended to cut down on electronic waste by allowing people to re-use existing chargers and cables when they buy new devices.” This will separate the buying of a charger from the buying of a device. And it’s USB-C too which has its own set of problems. ...

People Why data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes I 100% agree with this. At most, a data scientist should be able to make a working Dockerfile that needs hardening and careful inspection. Facebook aware of Instagram’s harmful effect on teenage girls, leak reveals Facebook isn’t a good company rarely that acts in the best interests of its users. They have a market cap over $1 trillion and their stock is still soaring to new heights. We should be actively encouraging people to delete Facebook affiliated tools from their lives. Management platform for Infrastructure as Code Automation and Collaboration See how env0 automates and simplifies the provisioning of cloud deployments for Terraform, Terragrunt and GitOps workflows. Variables and Secrets granularity, Full CLI support, integration with OPA, Dynamic RBAC and quality of life features. Free Demo SPONSORED Pay Transparency Is Coming, and Employers Are Terrified A great reckoning is coming. Us knowing each others’ salaries is a good thing. Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash Flash strikes history. ...

People Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen And every other company should too. We just don’t know when they’ll reopen and constantly re-picking dates just to change them later seems silly. A Non-Tech Explanation of Containers and Kubernetes Through this simple analogy by 451 Research, get a better understanding of virtualization, containers, and Kubernetes. Learn the differences between these big topics and the role of each in a multicloud future. SPONSORED What is an SRE? “A comprehensive definition of SREs and Site Reliability Engineering, including what SREs do and what makes SREs different from other roles.” The Epic v. Apple verdict is out “The Epic v. Apple lawsuit has concluded. The verdict sees Apple come out largely unscathed — but with one of its central App store policies deemed illegal.” Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. ...

I spent most of the week in a deteriorated state. Getting over the 12 injections last Friday took much longer than expected. It still amazes me how much work I can do with a disability, medications that slow me down, and a lack of sleep (Max started Kindergarten this week). In a way, this is a lot like our systems, overtaxed by the increasing number of people using them. Ready to both be upgraded by an admin and taken down by a deluge of traffic at the same time (or worse, the opposite). Running along in a less than optimal state is pretty optimal for a lot of workloads. Sure, specific workloads will need certain kinds of hardware, and the software varies in those spaces. But, most of us are still using an abstraction of an abstraction of an abstraction (of an abstraction). Like a top starting to lose its grip on centrifugal force, our systems run fine until they don’t. Now, more than ever, we need to know how the systems are performing. What caused the slowdown? What sent the system sliding off the table into oblivion? Will it be able to be spinning like a top again soon? What do you do to pick it back up and having it moving like the top in Inception? All these questions are answered by the same question: How do we know if we’re doing the right thing? ...