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I want to point out a few signs that I think we’re pushing the industry too hard, too fast. Fires in AWS data centers, Fastly (the CDN) took an hour-long outage triggered by a customer finding a bug, Cloudflare had outages in Chicago and Los Angeles. Ransomware is running through companies like Grant went through Richmond (to the point the US Justice department is equating them, in some ways, to terrorist attacks). Things need to change. Moving towards a more hybrid and fluid environment is not just a strategic priority; it’s survival at this point. Then making sure that your entire business can’t grind to a halt because lowest common denominator security issues happen. I thought we figured it out in the early 2000s. But, technology has changed so much since then, and there are new zero-days every day. We’re in a very tight position as technologists. If you’re a developer, you’re a target. If you’re an employee, you’re a target. You and every service you touch is a target. Nothing is safe. ...

The Cloud Native community lost a great person; Peeyush Gupta. He leaves behind a wife and 10-month old child. His employer, Digital Ocean, and the Kubernetes community are trying very hard to make that that mother and child will not be as devastated. I beg of you, please donate to the Peeyush Gupta: Family Education Fund. If half the DevOps’ish readership gave $25, we’ll hit the current goal of Rs.5,500,000. It’s been surprisingly difficult for me to deal with the loss of Peeyush. I think I’ve learned death doesn’t get easier with age, at least when the person is a decade younger than you—my deepest condolences to the Gupta family. I cannot imagine what you are dealing with right now. I’ve made two public statements on Peeyush’s death. Please accept my apologies for quoting myself here. “I was gobsmacked by the news. The impact Peeyush has had in the community is a large one. It’s not possible to sit down and look at GitHub to capture Peeyush’s work. It extended into so much more than code.” —Chris Short, Heartfelt Remembrance for Peeyush Gupta (pensu) ...

I’m in surgery recovery mode. I will be for a while it looks like. Nerves are weird. Do me a favor; if you’re reading this, take the 2021 DORA State of DevOps survey. People Growing Concerns among Developers about the AWS Free Tier It feels like if you think you’re keeping yourself in the free tier you’re an API call or bug in the system away from a massive panic attack. Are you looking to learn more about observability practices? Join Honeycomb for o11ycon+hnycon June 9-10! This is the observability event of the year, where people come together to explore cutting-edge observability practices, new tech like OpenTelemetry, and more. Register for this free virtual conference to connect with peers and learn from top Honeycomb customers and observability experts–including speakers from HelloFresh, Slack, CircleCI & Netflix! Observe, debug, and improve with Honeycomb. SPONSORED Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors This is a security nightmare laying in shadows. Disable this setting now (directions in article)! ...

Mobile first development. A simple idea in principle, but the options, while numerous, all suck in some particular way. Yes, I’m a sucker and bought a new iPad Pro. I think that the time is right to make this purchase now, both for family and productivity. With a 5G modem, the device has somewhat unbounded future potential. But, the hardware is hamstrung by iPadOS. Last night, I was sitting at my desk using the new Magic Keyboard (there’s a mousepad). This is an ultra-level netbook with a demon inside it. It is indeed fast. Playing larger maps on Civ6 is enjoyable. The rapid responsiveness of the device is a lot like my Red Hat-issued 16" MacBook Pro (which usually sits on my desk I wrote about in January, I do need to provide an updated version soon). This thing could easily handle a lot of my day-to-day work right now. I could, in theory, do my daily job on this iPad Pro. Slack, email, browser, RDP client, and most other software I use to produce and host OpenShift.TV has iPad-friendly versions. When KubeCon NA comes (the CFP closes today), I’ll have some hard choices to make. I have to decide between bringing an 11" iPad Pro and a mic or a buffet of A/V gear in a Pelican case. ...

Finally, an average week, expect weeks are anything but “normal” these days. This past week marked the first birthday of OpenShift.TV (which is for all intents and purposes) what I’ve been working on the past year. 540 hours of content that has been archived to help folks tackle all kinds of issues with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and a host of other open source projects. I bet we’ve touched on etcd’s thirst for low latency, having to remind people to use DHCP for IPI installations, and have come up with as many “stage” names; it might total up to about 540 times too. It’s been worth it. The value it brings to others is beyond what we were hoping for. But, this week was the week of, “What are you going to do when things go back to being in person?” I’m not sure what that looks like. It could mean I bring a portable studio with me everywhere I go or something that stays a mostly at-home job with trips to cover events occasionally. I don’t know what anything will look like in two weeks from now, let alone six months from now. I know that we launched a live streaming effort a year ago, and I went through six mic arms in the process. ...