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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Company A permits federation of project 2 with contractor B who agrees. Oh look! No need to add 21 people to your AD. Contract done? De-fed.

    Google feds with GH for AOSP dev, because it’s 2023. Users don’t need to even know where the repo is hosted or whether the real meat is another hop inside.

    Company “BCFerries”, an imaginary organization, happens to run the largest fleet of mobile DCs in the country, with each mobile DC being 6 HA racks, three on a side, dehumidifiers o-plenty. Engineers stationed aboard need to lob tickets and hot fixes on the go, and sub them for review when the mobile DCs get a good link, 30 min out of every 2 hours. Roaming 2/2/2tb node swaps spit with the stationary nodes when it smells the VPN, and then gets ready to go again.

    Repeat that above, but say ‘Maersk’. I’m betting evergreen/evergiven is on VSS.

    Enough examples?

    Running a federated GL is conceivably a set-it-and-forget-it like a lot of federated stuff already is, and you debug the glitches and patch like normal.

    Given the 5GLs I still run were all installed by VMware/terraform/chef/RPM, patched automatically with package promotion and watched for anomalies, it’s already negligible effort. Double nothing is …let’s see …carry the 0 …integrate the square …nothing.

















  • Remember that, unlike French and its steering organization, English is a “usage dictates form” kind of setup where the most popular usage drags the language down after it.

    That’s why people pluralize mass nouns and say things like “emails” as a noun, or join words to get “startup” as a verb, or say “literally” as if they know no other adverbs: someone popular said it like that and everyone is cloning that dialect glitch. They’re making “fetch” happen.

    So let’s all do the needful, action that ask and synergize the spend.

    Or we say no. We ridicule the people yammering like misfit kids of drunkard used-car salesmen, and we correct them, and we only address the content when the errors are fixed. Set the bar for discourse.



  • I was named after some guy before they found out he was a total dirtbag. My legal first name is so unused it sounds discordant when I hear it (like at a doctor’s office).

    I really struggled with that until my friend Chuck showed me his own ID and I learned his last name. Yep, Manson.