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Happy Holidays to everyone celebrating this time of year. I hope that your time with family and friends was wonderful and stress-free. I have both of my kids in the same place at the same time this weekend; I am thoroughly enjoying that. Life doesn’t go how you plan it. Much like in DevOps, it’s not how well you stick to the plan for life; it’s how you respond to anomalies and improve the system as a whole. I had a kid at 20. She grew up a military brat and didn’t have the easiest of childhoods. But, she’s in college now. She’s working her ass off too. But, she’s doing this so she can take knowledge from us and better herself in the long run. I know it’s hard; it’s not the life I dreamed for her. But, we have talked about how this will prime her for a better position in life when she graduates. We’re working together as a team to learn from some hard-fought lessons while allowing room for mistakes. But, the safties that I didn’t have are built-in so that when errors occur, their blast radius can be minimized. Raising kids and teaching young adults how to live is a whole lot like DevOps. Drive towards goals, address errors, build safeties into the system as you go, and continue to iterate on every cycle to find areas to improve. There are so many parallels between life and DevOps. ...

X-Team is Hiring Go developers with strong AWS skills (Remote) We are looking for passionate Go developers with strong AWS skills to work with the world’s leading brands, from anywhere. We love to work with Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, and AWS tools. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers. We provide the funding needed to help you achieve your goals and grow as a remote developer. Join X-Team! SPONSORED Events Security at Cloud Native Speed (webinar) Online January 9, 2020, 11:00 am PT | 2:00 pm ET Join our live discussion to get your questions answered on how to improve security and reduce your blast radius while increasing velocity in cloud-native environments. Our speaker, Chris Short, draws on his experience as a principal technical marketing manager for Red Hat, CNCF Ambassador, and editor of KubeWeekly and DevOps’ish to share best practices on applying gates during CI/CD, the critical features for container security, tapping the power of native controls in Kubernetes, leveraging automation to retain velocity. ...

The year 2019 is winding down. This is the time of year I reflect on the past 365 days. I feel a few themes that are predominant but, I’m looking forward “for the next thing” and it’s still Kubernetes and the cloud native ecosystem. This is why I think Kubernetes will become the standard cloud APIs that we all build on in the future. I look at Linux and how it has become table stakes these days. I look at Ansible and see that organizations are using either Ansible or a very similar tool. Seeing application deployment and infrastructure as code as more of the norm than the exception is great! Then there’s Kubernetes. The tool providing a consistent, repeatable, and extensible functionality to every cloud provider. While cloud providers’ lack of interoperability by design attempts to lock folks in (there’s plenty here for everyone, AWS), Kubernetes is there making hybrid solutions possible. I see organizations using it to provide the right blend of on-premises and cloud resource use. I see folks using it for data science to make sure their models run to completion. I see folks building mountains of Raspberry Pi Kubernetes clusters to learn it. Kubernetes is becoming a standard API set folks are starting to expect to exist in data centers and clouds. When I look for what’s next in technology, I generally look for pain points. Kubernetes is solving some pain points and working on improving others with every release. Linux lowered the barrier to quality operating systems. Kubernetes is pushing infrastructure to be API driven. This is what we’ve wanted for years. It’s not perfect but, the future is now. ...

I had a long week with a lot of ups and downs. But, the real downer was delivered on Friday afternoon when I learned my insurance provider had denied a trial run at a new nerve stimulator. I had been talking to friends and family about this new nerve stimulator because it was way less invasive to implant. In a nutshell, the nerve stimulator is synthesized to produce a cancellation signal that keeps the brain from feeling the pain. One friend described it as being akin to Iron Man. Instead of keeping metal out of my heart, the nerve stimulator would keep pain from my brain. It also featured technology like Bluetooth and wireless power which means that I could have a cordless device that’s inert in my body with no exposed wiring. No issue with TSA or any government facilities I might find myself in or around again someday (never know if or when a friend will call). Back to the drawing board… ...

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