Chris Otta

Cloud Engineering. DevOps. Advancing Developer Communities.

[Chris Otta @otta_chris]

@w_bitterman Wise biblical counsel!

[Chris Otta @otta_chris]

@birdchadlouis Amen!

[Dickens Juma @juma_dickens]

Join us this Saturday for exclusive session with Stephen Ebichondo - Senior Security Enginneer at Microsoft on Navigating the Job Market and Breaking into Tech.

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

Our 2nd speaker @otta_chris on Day 1 of #GopherConAfrica 2024 made a deep dive in part 2 of Go for Infrastructure Test Automation, with a hands on session! 🧑‍💻😍

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🚀 Announcing @otta_chris for #GopherConAfrica 2024 presenting on Go for Infrastructure Test Automation. An innate teacher and STEM advocate, he is the SDET at Safaricom PLC and has pioneered LakeHub Academy. A cloud & infrastructure engineering aficionado—don’t miss out! #gca24

[Chris Otta @otta_chris]

Did my homework. Seen the PR on GitHub!

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@brikis98 Does Terratest include helper functions to reconfigure backend in case of a change?

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@AngelofVerdant Hehe, ultimately, what were the tradeoffs?

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@Ijay_js @LiskHQ Congratulations 🎊 Consistency rewards 👏

[KidsCodelab @KCodelab]

Invest in your child by giving them a future fit education. Enroll them at https://t.co/RYQ4CT2DTE #CodingJourney #STEMEducation

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@dmichaelclary Deep!

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

At the end, three scholars were shortlisted. Prof Jacob Kaimenyi, a Meru. Prof James Kimani, a Kikuyu. Prof George Albert Omore Magoha, a Luo. The very powerful Merus in government; Muthaura, Mwiraria and Kiraitu Murungi, wanted Kaimenyi as VC. The very powerful Kikuyus, led by Chris Murungaru, Stanley Murage and John Michuki, wanted Kimani. Chancellor Wanjui decided to call a press conference. Stretching his hand for illustration, he said "Prof Magoha's CV is thiiiis long! He has emerged the best and will get the job. He knows he has to perform in this job, but he deserves the appointment".

Wanjui was aware that if he didn't announce this publicly, Magoha, who had by then been known in many circles as a sort of Luo supremacist, would never get the job. But as Chancellor and a man who had managed some of the biggest industries in Kenya, he also knew that if he didn't appoint the best VC for his university, he would stare into decline and tribalism at the premier institution. With that, he left the powerful government forces who wanted their tribesmen to go and screw a mango. Watching this presser, I promised myself that I would respect Joe Wanjui forever. Because there were few men who could stand up for principles and moral probity like he did that day. As he stood up, he said to Prof Magoha, "Go out and undertake your duties without fear or favour". And Magoha did.

You won't find such fine men today. And it's a shame. 2/2

[Africa Uncensored @AfUncensored]

Freed by his words: A protester secures freedom for himself and his fellow demonstrator by articulating the reasons behind their protests, advocating for his and other Kenyans' rights, during the #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests.

Shot by @ElijahKanyi.

[Chris Otta @otta_chris]

State encryption with @OpenTofuOrg 1.7

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@aigkenham Only a regenerate heart wants the light, and that's the work of God.

[Chris Otta @otta_chris]

"Compile time errors are our friends because they help us write software that works, runtime errors are our enemies because they affect our users." ~ Chris James.

[Yevgeniy Brikman @brikis98]

We had our @gruntwork_io company offsite last week and used it to launch our brand new website! 🎉😎

https://t.co/TWwGIQIJl3

I'd *love* to get your feedback. Can you understand what we offer? Is the messaging clear? What's would you change?

[Chris Otta @otta_chris]

@brikis98 @gruntwork_io The site answers my questions for sure. I use Terratest to automate my infra tests. As a 'New Tool', for discoverability, me thinks it's more intuitive to first search and find for primary tools under a Products menu item rather than via the docs. Unless it's a secondary tool 🤔

[Chris Otta @otta_chris]

From an #infrastructure #design standpoint, how do you optimize your FinOps for compute resources, e.g., using burstable performance EC2 instances?