The_Pete

I mean, its different for everyone.

For me I’ve done plenty of shifts where I got paged, slept or didn’t sleep and then worked a full day.

But at this point, if I go back to sleep, I won’t set an alarm, because I see no value in going to work like a zombie. If I end up at work but can’t focus because I was upnall night with he pager, I’ll just hit my couple meetings and call it. No point in sitting around pretending to work.

I got a bunch of heads this year to double our team footprint.

I’m using those guys to bring 1mm/month of aws cost back onsite into a kubernetes cluster as well as moving existing on prem services into the same kubernetes and a few other clusters.

I think we’ve decided the sweet spot is that we build fast with AWS and bring the winners home to lower our opex. Its a relatively nuanced look at how we build and support our products.

So, I’ve got a few heads on managing legacy, a couple on migrating legacy to on prem k8s, a couple on just managing k8s and physical host lifecycle.

And I’m just kinda floating just helping people out as needed. And I’m not a manager so I have full ability for direction setting and task creation and I don’t have to do any reviews or expense reports.

So as a systems eng, this is the best gig I’ve had in 15 years.

No grandfathering. Alma and rocky are working on a way to continue. The reason was not specifically given but they believe that the community doesn’t provide an equal share of value.

My guess is the NASA/qci contract to provide rocky Linux support.

Yes, but doing a speed test while you’re using the link isn’t an accurate test, so it’s extremely difficult to be able to show bandwidth issues with anything other than a graph. If the ISP is not giving you your full bandwidth, you’ll flatline below the full bandwidth on the graph. If you are using half your link and do a speed test you will only get results for about half your link unless you drop all other traffic to do the speed test.

So, a speed test can show bandwidth but so can a graph, when you see the flat line, you’ve hit your limit.

Use interface counter graphs to map out b/s and then you’ll be able to see where you’re actually maxing out. If you’ve hit a bandwidth limit on a connection but your graph is still spiky it’s not you it’s them.