Cloud
Setting Business Goals with SLOs
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) have boomed in popularity because they provide a common language between business stakeholders and engineers to set aligned goals.
It’d be a cool project to take my all-cloud-no-cattle site setup here multi-cloud by supporting others, such as CloudFlare Pages.
CloudLinux promises a CentOS Replacement
CloudLinux, which has been making Linux secure and stable since 2010, announced today it will invest $1 million annually in development and establish a community initiative around its RHEL fork intended as a safe haven for CentOS users left stranded with Red Hat’s announcement last week.
Grab Bag
Finally.
On Realizing There Was Still Some American Exceptionalism Lurking In My Brain
I am a patriot but I thought I was a thoughtful one. This year has brought home to me how much American exceptionalism was still lurking in the corners of my head.
MacKenzie Scott donates $50m to Prairie View A&M.
The universities can use the money for whatever they like. At Prairie View, a historically Black university, school leaders have chosen to allocate $10 million to juniors and seniors who had dealt with financial challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rest of the money will go toward other university initiatives, including faculty development and recruiting, academic improvements and scholarships.
How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters
The betting markets were not good predictors, but they weren’t trying to be. The online bookmakers that fielded bets on the election saw their largest single-event windfall ever. To understand why, you need to understand election betting and Donald Trump supporters.