Peter Lamar

Fan of devops, sre, entrepreneurship, building teams and solving hard problems.

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@dccommonsense Time for a follow up, please give us your take on the latest developments, wild to say the least.

[Matthew Broussard @mondaypunday]

Human: we have a color named after you!
Salmon: really? is it silvery blue like my outsides?
Human: no, uh–
Salmon: wait why is it pink?
Human: ...
Salmon: WHY IS IT PINK

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Hey, I can post videos longer than 2:20 now; here's how I explain AppConfig and get myself hunted down.

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@QuinnyPig Its not just me!! Absolutely hilarious

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@asynchio I agree, absolutely an inspired idea. This could even be a competitive advantage to the first few companies who implement it

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@FunSaized Agreed, and admittedly much less productive than an alternative such as Python. Use the least powerful tool for the job is what I have grudgingly learned

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

Just completed take home API assignment in Golang and Python for fun, tldr: Golang takes longer to write but runs faster

Time to write first rev 3:1 Python:Golang
Time to write first rev + fix bugs 2:1 Python(had more bugs):Golang
Golang ran 10x faster
Golang was 1.5x more loc

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@jorisroovers Fair enough, maybe just start with a single YouTube video? For starters my vote is share what you did automating your blinds. I have been looking for a good solution for that for YEARS and haven't found one to my liking.

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@cperciva I vote for us-justone-9

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@lcalcote Oh man, I’ll look out for this one. It looks great!! Good networking info that’s forward thinking, readable and not dry is an underserved market.

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

One of my favorite things about these books is all the different people who were interviewed or directly contributed to author them. Varied perspectives really adds value

[Katie Hempenius @katiehempenius]

Free books on reliability (from Google SRE):

- Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
https://t.co/nvGHjNbHIk

- The Site Reliability Workbook
https://t.co/nvGHjNbHIk

- Building Secure & Reliable Systems
https://t.co/advcffShzU

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@kelseyhightower Great! I just put this into prod and now have about 6 critical bugs I am now going to need you to go ahead and fix.. for free.. like right away.. no really, is it done yet?

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@TheOfficeOps Well we can always go back to VM's.. just need a shell script to check and restart apps.. another to upgrade versions.. one more for a fancy dashboard.. oh and maybe a command line client..

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@evilgaywitch How interesting the future would be if politicians maintained their views and policies on https://t.co/17m7WcGWfc files in Github?

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@KingOfThHillOps @Securitybash YAML wasn't originally so bad with k8s, but it seems like feature creep has created a monster

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@jorisroovers Just digging into it myself, but been more security focused in my old age. It's awesome that SQL injection has been the #1 security risk for at least the last dozen years. Its the one field that my undergrad courses are still relevant!

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@ibuildthecloud To this end, an ideal conference talk would be 10 mins on a topic and then 30 min to discuss in round tables in a topic, then you could have the hallway discussions in a room and more people could take part.

[Peter Lamar @ptlamar]

@ibuildthecloud Thanks for sharing, I have had similar thoughts. Conference talks tend to be beginner level to appeal to a broader audience but it makes them hard to get value from. It can be so much more valuable to go deeper with a few experts.

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

Forms of self-employment income for developers:

🔴 SaaS: Takes a long time for meaningful returns.

🟢 Info Products: High volatility, unpredictable, potential for extremely high ROI.

🔵 Freelancing: Predictable, stable, choose your own hours.

Mix together for maximum effect!