Joshua Ferrell

K8S SRE @Adobe ex: AWS & VMware. ADHD to the max. @[email protected]
Tweets are my own.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

Sitting in chemo, see awesome Dewalt saw deal @Lowes, order!

5 hours later, "ready for pickup", cool!

1 min later, "order canceled"

Try CS in app, kicked from queue.

Back in, spot 54. Finally talk, price error. Nothing they can do, recommends I call.

"Mylow" so appropriate!

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

Funny product shot from the new FlipperOne documentation https://t.co/DarzJk4dqZ

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

I haven't shared this but I was diagnosed with cancer a little over a month ago. Had surgery to remove a tumor. Going through my first round of chemo. I'm still here, putting in the work.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

Chuck Norris died! Winter is coming!

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

I've seen AI agents do dumb things. Everytime someone says "No you have to do ABC, then XYZ"

That makes it a tool, not a replacement for the one using the tool.

I foresee a lot of engineers getting hired back in the next 24 months.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

Be me:
Force sync CoreDNS cluster service after upgrade
Call at 2AM, one endpoint can't resolve
Can't resolve endpoint in any cluster but can locally
Enable DNS response logs
See "tc" in log entry. Googlefoo
Response too big, requires TCP

I had deleted TCP from service, kept UDP

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

@GeminiApp The fact that you cannot claim this if you are an existing Google One member is bad.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

Who else misses LimeWire?

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

One day client/server communication will look totally different.

If both have access to the same local model & temp=0, one node doesn't send all data to the other, just the prompt used to generate the information it would have transmitted.

Probably 10-50x compression.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

7 year olds blogging

"tying our shoes was too complex so my team went back to velcro, read why you should too!"

[Mischa van den Burg @mischavdburg]

ChatGPT runs on Kubernetes.
Claude runs on Kubernetes.
Microsoft Office runs on Kubernetes.

But random Twitter guy says it's unnecessary.

Who should I believe?

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

@d33v33d0 With AI lowering the barrier to entry for complex machine to real life interaction I see this type of fault isolation and resiliency becoming much more critical. Imagine you augmented nursing staff, poor system design could kill people.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

I keep seeing these "Kubernetes was too much, we moved to..." articles and I can't figure out why.

One even said they went back to bash scripts. These teams can't have more than a handful of services.

Also I am interested in why people think it's hard.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

Reading this book I realize now why the em dash is so prevalent in AI output.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Day

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

Bought some furniture and my oldest sees the invoice.

Him: Oh, cool, you know the manager?

Me: No

Him: How'd you get the manager's discount?

Me: Just ask for a discount

Him: You can do that?!?!

I have failed him.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

@helayoty Congratulations!

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

@I_Am_Jakoby Hey, I don't know you personally, but find something you don't know and dig in. Something with mystery and challenge. Something you haven't ever done before.

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

THROW YOUR XML PROMPTS IN THE TRASH!

Instead, use YAML. I promise you, it's better....

PSA: I've never tried either for prompting.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

THROW YOUR JSON PROMPTS IN THE TRASH!

Instead, use XML. I promise you, it's better.

Here's how:

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

People, please hear me!

The amount of time to dunk an Oreo is temperature dependent.

3-4 seconds in cold milk is fine.

3-4 seconds in hot coffee is dancing with the Devil. You will lose!

[Joshua Ferrell @Josh__Ferrell]

@I_Am_Jakoby Good luck!