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Ask HN: How do I transition to DevOps after 10 years of front end?
After 10 years of doing frontend I feel like I'm hitting a career ceiling. Overall, frontend is being looked down upon and I don't want to be considered a second class citizen anymore. I also don't have a CS degree so it's an uphill battle.

But I love tech and learning stuff. I'd like to spend the next year or so studying to transition to a DevOps role. I know SQL on a OK level, did some backend, know how to setup a Docker container etc.

What steps would you recommend to take? Books to read? Courses to take?

I ordered "Designing data intensive applications" book and am also considering buying the Cloud engineer bootcamp course from Linux Foundation.

What else? What should be my primary focus? What do I need to know inside out to be a competent candidate?

Thanks for the replies.
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> the source was released not long ago

That sounds interesting. Could you perhaps provide a link? I cannot seem to find anything by myself.
>Sokal Squared hoax[0]

Can you give some context for this that isn't a 47 minute read? What might someone think it does or does not demonstrate?
But this starts with "Sneaky Facebook" strategy which involves friend requesting people, getting them to like your page so you can then get their email, and "scaling the process" by paying people on fiverr to fake friend request again and again.

But ... meh ? Is this always what it takes? Paypal airbnb everyone?
I don't claim to know anything before it either.

All I'm claiming is that before whatever happened, there must have been a mathematical structure that allowed it to happen following certain physical laws. That's just a fact. So these mathematical laws exist before anything. This implies a realm that's not physical. Anything that is contingent such as all material things (why is there anything at all?) must have a prior cause - and that's an assumption of science.

All theories presuppose these mathematical structures.

That is, even if the current big bang is just one in a series of several, or however else you try to explain existence, you have to presuppose the mathematical structure that forces it to follow certain physical laws.

I also don't think you fully understand inflation and why it's been proposed but I'll ignore it since it's not useful for the conversation. Also read up on the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem as it basically proves that a beginning is necessary.

In addition, note that right now it seems almost certain that the universe had a beginning and any other explanation is not evidence based.
I'm currently using GitHub Projects for the Kannan view that integrates with Issues.

Does Redmine have that feature?
The real handout here is who benefit$ from the publicly funded moonshot tech that makes it into real world applications eg smart phone components
>Yours is the same misunderstanding that leads people to think $40k shipping container houses are the answer to the housing crisis. It was always about land, all along.

That might be the case, but the apples to oranges comparison by the parent poster is hardly convincing evidence.

>Social services are being severely eroded in the UK while the % spent on rent and taxes has sharply increased. The NHS is a wreck compared to what it used to be in the early 2000s and the social housing list is DECADES long.

That can't possibly be due to other factors, like the aftereffects of the covid-19 pandemic, or all the baby boomers retiring and requiring way more medical care? Not to mention that adjusting for inflation, population size and demographic structure, NHS spending is actually up since the early 2000s[1].

[1] https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/the-past-present-...
You can get frozen wild American blueberries from Trader Joes. They are small, firm and tart unlike the mealy, flavorless American blueberry.
That's the history of most institutions. There's a mistake about believing in merit and skills when it's usually a combination of political skills, ability to game the system (which are not necessarily the most important for the actual job) and initial privilege/wealth (a bad simplification of the point I'm trying to make on personal circumstances that don't relate to effort, it's more nuanced).

It's not the end of the world as long as you're not authortiarian and inclined to believe that in any hierarchy, the more valuable/skilled/apt person is naturally at the top.

It's very hard to create a system that scales and doesn't show signs of heavy bureocracy and/or corruption (if you know about the internals) because, very soon, it's easy to find out a gap between working for your career and working to maximise the output value of your job.
I know that's what a set of economists say theoretically happens, but I'm not sure that's actually borne out in the data.

If you look at periods of wage stagnation and/or inflation, they aren't exactly positively correlated with relative high corporate taxes.
Every single fruit you eat that has a name (e.g. "Fuji" apple or "Hass" avocado) has been grafted, and is a clone of the original plant, grafted on a rootstock that may have other ideal properties.
I wonder how much of an increase in taxes the folks at the WSJ would be willing to pay to bring back asylums? The longer I live, the more the quote "the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there" comes to mind. I don't really understand what the asylums were like, but I see that old America that they resided in as a very different place that believed more in public investment. These days, the idea of compelled vaccination is pretty controversial, so the idea that we are going to take away peoples' liberty and force them to take psychotropic drugs after we've imprisoned them seems beyond belief.

None of that is to say I don't think it's probably the right answer, rather that I just don't see it happening in modern America.
I think most traditional martial arts are also practiced, taught, and competed in as sports these days. They're not gladiators.

Specialized people (military, self defense contractors, etc.) might optimize for lethality. Maybe Krav Maga has a greater focus on that than most. But most of the famous Eastern arts aren't delaying with life and death stuff anymore either. It's not Kill Bill.
Very unlikely. I have never in my life heard of family wealth being a consideration in faculty hiring, and I've been on hiring committees.
For potentially confused people out there: some countries/musical traditions use a do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti(si) scale, rather than do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si or a-b-c-d-e-f-g.

This has the interesting side effect that the word solfege (sol-fa) makes little sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge#Note_names
> To paraphrase Richard Pryor, I support anyone trying to do anything at anytime.

What's the actual source quote here? Your paraphrase is excellent in and of itself.
I think he means it's rare to see a project not blindly following new design trends and still doing well.
>Unless we find a solution to increase the quality of journalism or replace it with something else I doubt democracy as a system will be anything more than a facade over oligarchy or even worse dictatorships.

Very poignant observation. I really see no way that _any_ system will work for the masses for the long run. Even if the 'best' system is in place it will soon morph into a facade that ends up being a propaganda piece of the ruling class.
Yes, they could grab the reins by making their own content without the studios and putting it on YouTube or some other multimedia platform, similar to substack.com
If we taxed wealth at 1%, the wealthiest would still be getting wealthier and we'd be able to cover the needs of so many more people, fight climate change, or whatever else.

You think Apple stops operating here because of a 1% headwind? No way.
Market forces always win in the long run.
This was the first tool I ever used for bug tracking professionally!

I’d be curious to see what people think about it.

I suspect our implementation was terrible, because I remember hating it.

Looking at it now, it seems appealing.
Why is the Dr Huey hideous, other than it being misused by humans in odd grafting procedures?
It's a great query language, too. But since it's Turing complete you get lots of rope to hang yourself.
Unix is kind of crap with process management.

That doesn't even begin to cover the issues. Eg, PIDs may be quickly reused, so having a PID is no guarantee that you're going to send a signal to the right process. Signals suck. Handles get passed to children, which can cause weird issues. Information about processes is racy -- if you want to know something about a process you have to look in /proc, and you could have that data disappear if the process exits, or get replaced with a different one mid-execution.

On a higher level, things aren't much better. Bash is a constant annoyance if you want to actually accurately pass arguments to commands, and not have things break from an extra space.

What surprises me the most is that until systemd there was very little effort made to improve the situation. You'd think that after decades and thousands of init scripts dealing with the same PID file nonsense and other things that go in init scripts often in buggy ways somebody would think that a fix is needed, but no, it took until 2010.
Sure, they maybe caught a few, but it won't catch all of them, probably not even the majority. That's not how you get rid of a pest, you need to eradicate them all.

Then eventually the plant will die, because that's not the right environment for it.
The company I work for switched from redmine to jira few years ago, after using redmine since 2009 or so. It was a really bad decision spearheaded by a single project manager.

I miss redmine. I hate having to see the constant interstitial loading animation in Jira. And working through small modals. Just load the damn page for the link I clicked on. All the “single page application” junk is rarely executed well. But I can’t say that it or I’m a dinosaur. Sorry the rant.
Or as they call it outside of the agile industrial complex, a to-do list. Nobody is stopping you from keeping one.
Love it. Some might take it as undermining knowledge or [some branches of] philosophy, but to me rather the opposite!
The wording of the parent comment sounded like the UN were just going to hand over direct $$$ to the warring groups.

That's clearly not what they're going to do.

The obvious (?) reasoning they're not using the proceeds for the sale to cover the operation cost, is because those same warring parties probably need this "incentive" to allow the operation to go ahead.
Being forced to upend your life and relocate far away every four years is also not a positive aspect of academic life.
The SRE book is a decent reference, but may not be exactly what you're looking for:

https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-system...

> hearing a lot about how distributed systems are overused and usually a monolith can do a better job etc

> improve my understanding of monolith vs microservices, when to use each, and the tradeoff of preferring one over the other

A lot of this will depend on where you're working. Where I'm at, the preference is for single tasks up to somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 gigs of RAM and commensurate CPU. Our individual servers have just stupid amounts of RAM and CPU on them, and our deployment stack has..... nontrivial amounts of overhead for.... reasons.

But if you're e.g. deploying on AWS, the price optimization point is gonna be different. And if you're deploying while working at Amazon it'll be yet a different tradeoff (cynically, having more to do with pager duty boundaries)
Be surprised no more, there's an apparent garbage shute for lots of "journalists" and pundits where something unspoken about modern times bothers them enough that they just flip into being total nutjobs, riding on their previous respectability to keep eyes on them. Silver is part of a long tradition including Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, heck even the Dilbert guy of people who used to make sense, saw "something" that REALLY bugged them and they just threw it all away to become unintelligible cranks. Makes ya think.
That sounds like micromanagement. Are you a contractor?
Sarcastic response to a humble brag.
When you are in a system design hole it's best to keep digging -- every company I ever worked for.
I was in Scandinavia recently and the strawberries there were much smaller than the typically massive American ones and the flavor was sweeter, the texture was less firm and the seeds were much less pronounced.
If there was already a building there and nobody was using it, they could have it. Typically it didn't cost much to put up a basic house.
With IPv6, Shared VPC’s and VPC peering, a lot of this cost and complexity can be eliminated.
> Apart from this being the entire point of globalization, the attitude that an academic degree alone is a guarantee to a good income is one of insane privilege and entitlement. This is a take from someone that doesn't like that his humanities degree is worthless in a globalized Meritocracy.

I think you completely missed the point that the authors were trying to make, which is that being in the top 10% of earners isn't as "secure" as you might think, you could easily fall out of that position, and almost everyone would benefit from a strong social safety net. This is as true in China as it is in the UK or the US.
There are plenty of radar satellites nowadays that penetrate through foliage.
Perhaps the UK has to descend further towards third-world country status before its citizens will be prepared to stand up and take charge of their governance instead of allowing small groups of narrow-minded do-gooder elites to do so.

Presumably—if they bother to so act at all—that will be after just about every high-tech company has left for more fertile grounds.
Maybe the article will refresh automatically with the actual distance when you visit the page. That would be a cool science website.
> There is a lot of favoritism that goes on in industry as well.

There sure is, but I don't think your example is evidence for that. People just like to hire based on recommendations and through friends. Several times now I've been interested in some startup, and when I looked at their team page, they were all from the same group: either all Indian, or all russian speakers, or something else. I bet most startups are like this, just that some cases are more apparent than others.
21 years of all that travelling back and forth to a family vacation home... My flight shame would kill me. How did/do you deal with that?
Out of interest: what sort of troubles has it given? (if you're able to say)
Surely massacres are not a symptom of desertification?
Honestly, I'm pretty fine with them as-is as a user. Discoverability, rating, and feature description out-of-band, as in reading about them on the web, hearing about them on a podcast, seeing them on a friend's device, is good enough that I never feel any need to browse the store itself. As long as I can type in a name, download, install, and choose whether or not to auto-update, that's all I need. Apple's ability to manage and cancel subscriptions from one place, rather than needing to navigate a maze of different policies and procedures for each app individually, is also great.

I'm sure the experience can be improved for developers, but as a user, why should I care?

When you're talking about a store for "web apps," I guess I'm curious what that would even mean. Web apps don't need to be installed or updated. You just visit a URL in your browser and it's there. Every time you visit, the version that loads in your browser is up to date. What purpose does a store serve? Are you talking about something like IMDB for web apps but making production studios pay for listings and calling it a store?
Show HN: LLM Arena – a text-based game that explores the possibilities of LLMs
The initial idea for the game came during the final day of Game AI school in Cambridge. There, we had a Jam where we explored the idea of using LLMs as a game engine for fights. We then built a full web version in just a week.

There is no need to register or pay to play. Test it out!
> The goal of the design process is (...) to instead characterize the design space for a given problem

Any good resources on how to properly define the design space? What makes it a space more than a list of requirements?
Sure, we’re technical so we know some limitations. But I’m sure you know I don’t mean a continuous stream of everything all the time, the same way Tesla isn’t crowdsourcing by streaming all data all the time.
> How can you call yourself a programmer if you don't know the basics?

If you can write programs, then you're a programmer. That's it.
> I am going to try to schedule the testing done this Friday, October 24th.

So WHY didn't you open up your editor on the 25th and let us the World know about the results (or lack thereof)???

I hate so much the utter lack of discipline and follow-up of the average internet person :-( (of course in a tongue in cheek way)

This happens so many times... who hasn't found an interesting forum topic, sometimes describing exactly the same problem we're having, with a promising resolution, but which never actually arrived?
>The point is that if chrome implements this, netflix, amazon, facebook etc might decide they'll use this feature and only permit browsers who implement this to use this site.

Works for me. I don't need those sites/services. If they want to be actively hostile to me, I can vote with my feet/wallet.

I can't (nor do I wish to) control what other people do. Just what I do.

As it stands now, I block the bulk of scripts/ads/trackers/other spyware on my devices, and those who don't like that are free to block me from accessing their sites.

Maybe I'm missing something important here, but I don't need anything from Alphabet, Netflix, Meta or any other rapacious corporation. They can do what they like, and I will do the same.

>Have fun using Firefox if half of the web locks you out or treats you like a second class citizen.

If the above folks are who you consider "half the web" then, at least for me, nothing of value would be lost, as I don't use that garbage anyway.
ELI5, sorry:

Taking your POC just a bit further and you've got the basis for zero trust networking, right?

That's the Future Perfect Correct Answer™, right?
I have been working on a project with some similarities, an X window manager written in Electron. It uses browser windows for wallpapers as well as frame windows. Haven't gotten the API where I want it to be yet, but I use it daily.

https://github.com/wnayes/electron-wm
I thought I wanted to work on cars for a living, then I delivered parts for O'Reilly during one summer and was told straight to my face "If you like cars don't do this job."
ChatGPT over Slack Powered by OpenAI and Struct
> This is just flamebait.

The internet enables people to work from home where ever it is in the world, whatever time zone in the world. So unless you are a business owner who would rival Hitler or Mussolini in the control freak stakes, the business gets to offload the cost of housing and furnishing employees in an office back onto the employee. The smart employee working from home no longer has to look at purchasing a home in the staid commuter belt, but can choose from any location where the internet can reach, which thanks to Uncle Elon and his Starlink satellites is pretty much anywhere on this planet.

You want to spend a year living in Iceland, to help their economy, and experience life as an extreme petrolhead, you can do that. You want to camp out in an African village, living like a king on the exchange rate whilst helping to raise living standards by spending in the local economy, you can do that.

They say charity begins at home, why even restrict yourself to a 1st world country, funding corrupt politicians at national and local levels, go live somewhere else where the organic food cost pennies and everyone is happy because of the input you bring to those less developed parts of the world.

How quickly could you bring water to a village in Africa, if you decided to live there, knowing that Uncle Elon has your back with your Starlink internet connection?

Some businesses are behind the curve when it comes to selling up office blocks or reprovisioning them into homes as this news article from 2019 demonstrates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47720887

Spread the wealth where it matters most by living in a 3rd world country where your boss cant get you!
https://xkcd.com/979
I developed some PalmPilot applications, though they never went anywhere. I used Pocket C, which was a simplistic but workable environment that was interpreted on the device. I was also using IBM ThinkPads for factory controls around the same time period.

The PalmPilot had nice tiny form factor, probably its primary asset. A second benefit is that it had no fan. It was pretty typical for fan / heat / dust problems to bring down long-term software installations, along with the lifespan of CRT displays. Something like an IBM PC clone, if un-maintained, was good for at most a few years.

The PalmPilot hardware port was conventional RS232, so it was easy to mate it with outboard hardware. On later PP's, when they went to USB, I was able to interface them through the IR data port.
> and I do think we should start preparing for a future where images are not something we can trust

I'm not sure we can entirely 'trust' images/photos anyway right now. Even a 'genuine/undoctored' image, paired with partial/misleading info or outright lies has an impact on what we take from an image anyway.
Especially when a legitimate criticism against the news media is that they are usually only after “new” stuff, and don’t spend enough time following up on ongoing issues.
You don't see anything wrong with comparing:

1. serfs paying 30% (or whatever) of their income and getting a parcel of land and a mud hut that "didn't cost much to put up"

2. someone today paying 30% and getting an apartment unit that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to build and comes with electricity, plumbing and air conditioning

and concluding that the plight of the latter is basically the plight of the former?
And yet people continue to inject it into their faces, because wrinkles.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it's basically embrace (use accepted concepts like ip, network interface, subnet etc), then extend (make it easier to work with those concepts at least for simple use cases), then extinguish (network services only look like the real thing).
Industry tends to be better because mediocre hires eventually feed into a company's performance against its competitors. Or putting things another way, the public sector operates in a fantasy world, whereas the private sector is constantly reality-checked by markets.
Chrome won because it was the default and installed by default and invested in heavy advertising. It was also in your phone. People didn't choose it because devs told them to. People chose it on their own.

People had Gmail and it synced shit too. People used Google and got pushed to use it.

It's absolutely disingenuous to pretend Firefox lost the upper hand it had because of
- bad decisions from Netscape ages ago
- chrome being objectively better.

> Then there was the heavy advertisement on Google.com (but that was a little later IIRC).

You recall wrong. The stats showed Firefox on the way to overtake IE until chrome showed up strong and unavoidable, prompting people and being the default.

Your experience with the Dev tools is fine but most power users who wanted customization preferreed Firefox and recommended it to their non tech friends and installing and add-ons is not harder than installing chrome. So it's basically anecdote against anecdote.

IE won because it was the default.

> Chrome won because it was a breath of fresh air after dealing with Netscape, then Firefox

A fresh of uncustomizable air, right?

You drove the wrong conclusions from the market movement and wanted to chuck it down to developer decisions.