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redbluemagenta
Personal blog · redbluemagenta.com · on HN as cparedesprogrammingpoliticscareer
redbluemagenta is a personal blog at redbluemagenta.com about programming, politics and career. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-29, and you can follow it by feed.
An SRE that talks a lot about not only tech, but also politics and social issues from a left-wing perspective
What Hacker News says?
The consensus on CM tool choice is simply, "pick one that's comfortable for you and your team," and, "it doesn't matter which one you use, just be sure you're using configuration management." It's definitely better than dealing with shell scripts, since a lot of things you write in your CM language gets abstracted automatically for whatever operating system you're using (this is the biggest takeaway - you really don…
Comment linking /2011/05/21/puppet-vs-chef
on “Puppet 2.7 Released”Submitted My interview experience with Canonical as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Review of Airbnb's SRE Hiring Process, from someone who just interviewed there as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living like a college student as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiences with leading teams (without any experience whatsoever) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LOPSA Mentorship Program (for system administrators) as a story · 1 points
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