howdy, folks - it's been a bit since our last #hachyderm infra check in.

stuff in motion:

- ditching #terraform cloud & tf for #opentofu and #atlantis. we are just about to import our dev environment and put it through its paces.
- bringing #postgresql under ansible management. the team has been doing awesome work, and we've started to spin up dev nodes using the new playbooks. soon: production!
- moving #DNS zones away from AWS route 53. we chose bunny DNS as our provider and have been doing basic tests in dev. we'll likely prep our records for production this week with a plan for a cutover in one of the coming weekends.

and if you filled out our volunteer form and haven't heard from me in a bit - you're still on the list. we'll onboard a new batch of folks in the next couple of weeks.

@hachyderm

Where's the Resilience?

Look for the humans.

Nothing makes my day like a great post incident review!!!

And that's better than any metric you can shake a stick at.

Pragmatic and concise article on managing teams WRT interruptions

https://log.andvari.net/pages/bad-machinery.html

@gerrowadat

My daughter is a PhD student in psychology and she was explaining the controversy around social emotional learning (SEL).

Apparently it is unliked by conservatives because it encourages everyone to have their own voice and have their truths be witnessed and seen by their classmates and the teachers, and vice versa.

Which, these stupid people say, encourages kids to believe they are trans. So no good. We can't have people sharing emotions.

As a coincidence I got to a part of Allison Pugh's book that talks about SEL as a way to cope with the demands of data collection and procedures that surround teachers. The effort to squash SEL is fought by more SEL.

It made me think that the tech industry is sorely lacking in SEL. Maybe I'll try to slip an exercise in during our next Reliability Matters session.

This #obliquestrategies card should be an SRE mantra.

New stickers!

Show your sarcastic side with this "Hello I'm Dead Inside" name badge sticker!

https://paradoxfoxuk.etsy.com/listing/1885634721

If someone wants to make me lose respect for them as a Manager, being a repeat no-show to a scheduled and repeating 1:1 meeting will do it.

A typical excuse is that they had some other meeting. Or was banging on some other thing. They've been late once or twice, but this is like the fifth time just not showing up.

One problem is that they do not accept meeting invites. So not only is there not any notification about them, the calendar is preternaturally false because they only selectively accept meeting invites from other people.

They're online. But I'm sick and tired of asking if they are coming to the 1:1 or not. So many things like this I am starting to sound like a broken record and that just makes me feel like I'm vulnerable and putting the spot light on me.

Hey, #DevOps, #SRE and #Developers in general: what laptop would you recommend to a new hire as a business laptop?

It's highly appreciated that it works with Linux, but Mac it's also considered.

New stickers!

For all you pager-carriers we now have an "Oncallax" sticker featuring a Snorlax handling an on-call shift!

https://paradoxfoxuk.etsy.com/listing/1885633237

Hello, Mastodonians! IONICA have officially joined the fediverse.

IONICA is a site reliability, cyber security, and application development firm based in #Vancouver, BC, #Canada.

We make web sites, mobile apps, and enterprise applications fast, secure, and highly reliable. We also provide high-quality open source and custom applications for our clients, hosted in Canada, or wherever they and their people need them.

Our mission is to make a tangible positive difference in the world through our work -- ethically delivering truly outstanding technology and technical expertise, and extraordinary client care.

You can learn more about us by visiting our web site at https://ionica.ca/.

We likely won't post a lot, though this account is commercial in nature, and we will use it to promote our products and services from time to time. So, if that's not something you would like to see, you may wish to block or mute our account. We won't be offended.

Thanks for reading and engaging with us. It's nice to be here.

Just finished writing the one-pager for a weekly incident review that I call Incident Story Time.

A year and change in and i made my first prod outage! Yay large DNS TTL's! It was my fault for not realizing it beforehand but .. sucks so much.

Mastodon 4.2.17

#SRE-Life #Mastoadmin

I have become really depressed about my joke of an attempt at a career in tech.

But today by surprise I had a pre-sales call with someone who studied opera and voice, and now I don't feel as alienated or ashamed.

There are lots of musicians in tech, but not that many opera singers. We should stick together or something.