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Staff SRE available for work!!!

I am a hard working systems thinker who has a unique balance of seasoned TechOps skills, good DevEx chops, experience designing and running SRE programs like Observability, Incidents, and CI/CD.

I was put out of work in June and I need a new gig in short order. Boosts and cross-platform posts appreciated!

People who work on DevOps, SRE, sysadmin and other infra topics, what OS do you use at work (for your workstation, not for your servers/containers/etc)?

Boosts welcome to get past my bubble of friends!

I'm wrapping up the last tasks before I can release my neat application that gives you aggregated reporting of updates on hosts over ssh.

I've been writing nightmare abstractions to handle the case where some package managers need sudo to refresh metadata from repositories (Debian, for instance). I personally just do NOPASSWD for the command in sudoers on my stuff.

The nightmare comes from password prompting. I'm at the point where I have half a mind to just... not do it?

And instead require users to setup sudoers like that if they want to sync repositories on systems where it's needed. I'd of course document it nicely.

Is that insane? As a user would that just make you go "URGH" and fiercely uninstall everything before emailing me a picture of your middle finger?

#Python#Unix#Linux

It is completely appropriate that Brendan is speaking with 3 adorable plushies on the podium (of the conference mascot, a penguin wearing a frog hat) #sre-next

Yesterday I was suddenly fired. Not a RIF. No PIP. All signals pointed in the opposite direction. "Your skills are no longer needed" just out of the fucking blue.

Last night I had the first nightmare I've had in well over a year, if not more. This is the 11th time I have been kicked from a company. And that's the part that's hitting me the hardest.

(psst I am looking for a job!)

I'm looking for some people to help me collaborate on writing technical documentation for Django, Python and Debain.

There will be image diagrams that help convey the layer of abstraction to think in to bring django to production while managed with systemd

If that is interesting, please interact with this post.

26 July -
I have found the alignment beteween systemd nginx and django. I'll have something out in the next few weeks.

It drives me fucking bananas that SREs at my company are not considered Engineers and are not included in DevEx. On purpose. For the love of all that's holy!!!!!!!1

Brought to you by: a longish motivational thing the VP of Engineering dropped in their channel today that really showed some care for helping people in their careers and learn.

But it's that this stuff was made explicit, by a leader, that really sets it apart and illustrates how dysfunctional the TechOps side of the org is growing without any leadership. They've flattened the entire thing out so that managers are reporting directly to the CTO and are taking on 10-15 reports, minimum. It's a ticket factory, not a collaboration.

Dear Fedi,

For 3 years, I've been working with friends from the #FOSS world as a team of freelancers and it's been great: we love what we do and our clients are happy and stay with us for years.

But the terrible state of the world has badly affected our clients financially, and we find ourselves suddenly in need of more #work

We focus on systems design, development, and administration. We offer SRE-level quality and processes for companies that cannot afford a whole #SRE team

Boosts welcomed

I always appreciate a good write-up of outages and Google had one for their outage on the 12th. They put in new policies around quota handling, but then that had some unexpected side effects. Since they didn't have a feature flag to turn it off quickly, recovery took a little bit longer.

One reason I like this is it makes you think of what features need to go into APIs/services and how everything fits together. Google runs planet-scale infrastructure, but I think there are takeaways for projects of any size in write-ups like these.

status.cloud.google.com/incide

status.cloud.google.comGoogle Cloud Service Health