🇨🇦 Josh Kellendonk

Okay folks, I'm no longer ashamed and am fully embracing the bald for this profile.

@1Password Hey guys. Can I make a feature request? I have a KeePass vault file and it's a pain in the neck. The team managing it won't use 1Password, so there's no hope of migrating. I want 1Password's desktop app to regularly sync that file with a specific 1password vault.

@mreferre Here's the upstream change in case you're curious: github.com/nginx/pkg-oss/…

@mreferre Hey Massimo. Your blog "Running the stock NGINX container image with AWS Lambda" has been tremendously useful to me for years. But FYI, the upstream nginx image uses /run now instead of /var/run, so the sed tricks in your post could be updated. it20.info/2021/11/runnin…

@astuyve Absolutely. Keep the videos coming! :)

@eigenseries maybe I wasn't too clear on that as part of the serializable snapshot isolation section, but anyway I'm still glad you liked it!

🚨 NEW VIDEO: Good clocks could be huge for us devs – so I've finally made a video about databases, how they are distributed, and why precise clocks can change things. This can also go horribly wrong, so we'll cover that too. Check it out – link below!

@astuyve It's a very good video. Thank you! My takeaway is: By relying on accurate clocks in lieu of logical clocks for our ordering, we're trading mathematical precision for practicality, but it's probably fine just as long as the clock is more precise than our write frequency.

@eigenseries hey thanks for the note! This kind of content is niche so I appreciate every bit of feedback

The AWS CloudFormation Stack refactoring makes me happy.

@RanBuilder It seems to work locally with ollama, albeit slowly. Maybe once AWS hosts the open model on Bedrock it'll be more practical.

Am I the only one NOT thrilled to pour my info into a Chinese-biased AI model?

@astuyve I also dislike SEO. But I hope we don't lose the ability to find information beyond what big tech says the LLM is allowed to tell us.

if LLMs displacing google search has the side effect of nuking the SEO industry, I'm here for it

@astuyve Haha phew.

@eigenseries lol it's just a joke, I throttled one of our test services for the cliff

Opening Datadog after kicking off a risky prod deploy

@astuyve Hmm. I don't know what the colors mean, but how does this chart look for last week, Thursday at this time? Unexpected request rate drop-offs scare me lol.

hmmm

@RDarrylR I love Fargate. I do wish there were some burst options, even if only for a few minutes while the task starts. 🥲

Using Fargate for compute on AWS is a good choice if you want to use a containerized approach but don’t want to deal with provisioning and maintaining EC2 VMs. AWS takes care of this for you and Fargate instances get added/removed from your clusters as needed. You do pay a premium over using EC2 at similar compute power with Fargate but it’s up to you to decide if the convenience and simplicity outweighs the cost. Fargate is supported with the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and the Elastic Container Service (ECS) on AWS. Abhishek Desai discusses some interesting tidbits from using Fargate

Dang. You can do some really nifty auto-completions on the terminal these days.

Splitting the cdk cli from the aws cdk construct lib makes a whole lot of sense. I hope this change will introduce better PR tooling, as from first-hand experience, the tooling gap created substantial delays (sometimes months) in review due to manual testing.

@benjamenpyle I can totally relate. Fun and useful for sure. I'd go to class 3x a week if they were offered, but for now I make do with lot of at-home practice and every seminar opportunity I can find haha. My main area is FMA, but now I wonder if I couldn't take up BJJ or something as well.

5 hours of training today. Probably got thrown from standing 150-200 times. 🥲

@realchrisebert @theburningmonk There may be value in asking why the students picked what they picked in the context of the class.

@theburningmonk I’m shocked. I wonder if these folks work for companies or are hobbyists. It seems most industry folks in the serverless space I know are or have moved away from Serverless Framework.

Is the Serverless Framework having a comeback? Across my five workshops in 2024, which offered the same exercises in both SLS and CDK, here's what students chose to do. I thought it'd continue to wane, but it bounced back. Let's see what the Jan cohort decides to do.