Welcome to All Cloud, No Cattle Weekly #11: Stack overflow has a homepage you’ve never seen
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Practiced Humility in Retrospectives
Will Gallego:
One of the fallacies about our collective approach to retrospectives, incident reviews, and post mortems is the belief that the entire process is a rational machine. Pour in a curated series of events, turn the handle, and out pop all of the action items that need completing to fix the world. I can’t speak to every industry that practices Resilience Engineering, but as for Software Engineering it stems strongly from our belief that we’re fully in control of our environment. We’ve built our tooling, architected our systems, and we’re running the retro. Why wouldn’t we be able to simply apply the calculus to our knowledge and change things for the better?
Finger.farm
Finger.Farm implements the finger protocol on top of a modern dev platform.
Do gopher next.
Kubernetes Examples
A reference repository of YAML with canonical and as-simple-as-possible demonstrations of kubernetes functionality and features.
This is great. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve need to look up minor bits about a Kubernetes spec and wanted to just browse examples like this. Top!
Increment: Reliability
The latest Increment is out, and the focus is on Reliability. Rather than linking to any one article, just go read them all. Really.
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Evan Klitzke on the Uber Engineering Blog:
The early architecture of Uber consisted of a monolithic backend application written in Python that used Postgres for data persistence. Since that time, the architecture of Uber has changed significantly, to a model of microservices and new data platforms. Specifically, in many of the cases where we previously used Postgres, we now use Schemaless, a novel database sharding layer built on top of MySQL. In this article, we’ll explore some of the drawbacks we found with Postgres and explain the decision to build Schemaless and other backend services on top of MySQL.
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‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Franchise To Expand
Peter White on deadline:
Nickelodeon is launching Avatar Studios, a division designed to create original content spanning animated series and movies based on the franchise’s world.
Be still, my beating heart. Avatar is still, to this day, the best TV show ever made. Don’t @ me.