And you are here why?

 ruc /via http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/05/30/very-very-old-projects/ ‘It’s not like the “fun” we had when we swapped out Angular for React, but this pretty much holds for any/all breaking changes. Turnover in the core-services team leads to swapping out SaltStack for Ansible  but only for the new environments, because we’ll deprecate the old environments, right? We should keep up with django updates,  except for that one high revenue client’s environment, because “high revenue” right? I could go on, but there is  always a reason to not update. What’s worse, the reason might actually be a good one 😟

/via https://xkcd.com/705/ One of the side-effects of the  DevOps  craze is the refrain that  SysAdmins  are no longer relevant, that the world of Container Orchestrations (and Continuous Delivery! and Serverless!) make  Operations  a thing of the past. Lets play with this for a moment. Take a look at your environment — your DevOps-fu is strong, you have the ultimate in Continuous Delivery, and whenever you merge into  master , stuff ends up in Production. Cool, isn’t it? A little twist here though, turns out that you’ve got a bunch of assets that are best served from a CDN ( Cloudflare   perhaps). Which leads to a whole thicket of issues —  • Who gets to decide whether the changes you want to make to it are viable? • What if those changes conflict with somebody else’s needs? • What happens if that other team has a problem — do they call you? • Heck, what if you want to switch to  CloudFront ? There are all sorts of ways you c...

Ever hear of something called The Delaware Aqueduct ? Yeah, I guessed not. Its an 85 mile long set of three tunnels in New York connecting the Rondout Reservoir in Ulster county, through the West Branch Reservoir in Putnam county, and ending up in the Hillview reservoir in Yonkers. Or, for those of you who aren't from New York (or the U.S.), it basically takes water from a reservoir on that side of the Hudson river, and brings it over to New York city, which is on this side of the Hudson river. See, the thing is, there is this area called The Catskill/Delaware Watershed , which gets a lot of rain.  A ton of rain.  So much rain that, well, its got more water than you can shake many sticks at.  As a result, in the early 20th century, they started building reservoirs there to collect water for New York City which uses that self-same ton of water for all sorts of water-y purposes.  Technically, there are three reservoirs there at Neversink , Ashokan , ...