Looking for an obscure methodology website

Hello all,


I'm looking for an obscure website that was a methodology which used makefiles, version control and I want to say maybe bash scripting. The name of the methodology was either one or two words, something not tech related like "brothers". I think the background of the site was blue.


The point of the methodology was to simplify CI/CD so that you on use two or three tools which in turn does all the rest of the work.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Reviewpad alternatives?

Hey,

Reviewpad was a cool product for PR automations, but got brought by Snyk and has disappeared. Is there any suitable alternative for this product?

Thanks

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How much of your infrastructure is in the code?

I'm in my first DevOps/cloud position so my experience is limited. When my team was hired(5 guys started within 2 weeks) we got into environment where a lot of infrastructure and tools was already set up.

I'd say 90% of what we do is in the code. Even today I had to set up some standalone box with a basic Flask app, communicating with RDS and that will be discarded after a week my manager wanted it committed to repo. Same with some cost report for a single account for a dev team.

We also have internal tools to manage the infrastructure and applications - need to create users in some app? No, you're not gonna do it by hand, write a Python function.

I'm not complaining, just want to know if this is common and if I moved somewhere else the practices and approach would be similar.

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Collab group

Hi folks 👋

I am a DevOps engineering by day and looking to level up in a few areas. I’ve historically worked as a software engineer focused on web and moonlight as a pentester. I am looking for a partner or group to study with or contribute on a project together. I’ll list some of the areas I feel confident in and some areas I am interested in learning more about below:

Confident:

AWS Cloud Management,
IAC (terraform/Cdk),
Kubernetes (deploying services and cluster management),
Datacenter management (networking/physical server management),
Building nodejs based microservices,
Building Ruby on Rails monoliths,
Network and web app pentesting

Interested:

Writing custom operators for Kubernetes,
Ansible,
SQL Schema Design and query optimization,
DS/A (leetcode or similar),
Learning C or Go,
Reverse engineer or malware analysis

I am located in the central USA and would prefer to meet with someone in a similar time zone but am open to meeting with others as well




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The rejections in today's job market

It's been about 3 months since my layoff from a fairly large tech company as Sr. SRE in silicon valley. On my 4th rejection from first round interviews and definitely start to feel a bit depressed and the feeling that I'm just not good enough. Probably me being naïve in thinking it shouldn't be that hard coming from a Sr. SRE role, but now understanding my skills not reflecting my senior role as much. I been more an ops guy that was put in a SRE role due to company acquisition and I think I've performed okay, Although probably not enough exp in design systems and coding as I'd like.

I been trying to apply for more the roles I'd like such as devops/system engineer. More roles regarding ops deployment/monitoring infra and some fun in automation. But these interviews have been killer. I can't really tell if I did good or not and so far haven't been able to get pass each tech phone screen or 1st round interview. I guess I'm more here to rant since it's hard to talk to anybody else about this.. I'm still trying to keep my head up high, as I put my head into books such as "The SRE Workbook", " Designing Data-Intensive Applications", "Understanding Distributed Systems", reviewing my linux/networking basics and trying to do some leet coding.

Feels like I'm up against the Google and meta senior eng when applying, although I would never know since the companies I've applied for are not willing to share feedback. Or it could be my bad memory, feeling like these interviews are just like college exams and all about memorization.

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Joined as Ops Engineer(entry role). Need guidance.

I recently joined as an entry role in Ops. The company I work is based on FIX protocol and trading engine. After a long career break, I got a job. I feel overwhelmed by the amount of resources and training. Most of my team is usually WFH or too busy to clear my queries/doubts, good guys but too busy.


After a couple days of my joining my reporting manager asked me, how are you doing and walk me through FIX, I quickly gave an overview in about a minute. He told, that he was expecting atleast a 10 min talk. The moment he said those words, so much pressure was built, like what are the expectations here.


I am scared if I will be able to cope up, and want to know any tips to adjust to the environment. I was given a training plan, and I was told I will be assigned small tickets in Jira from next week. Due to the nature of the engine, and a solid number of tickets will be raised everyday, I don't have a plan or anything.

Thank you, any help is appreciated, related or in general to this kind of work.

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Can anyone tell me what the cloudbees plugin does?

I'm getting cloudbees plugin errors from jenkins. Anyone know what it does, if it's needed, or can I get rid of it? Googling doesn't give me much on it.

After a jenkins restart, jobs disappeared from the UI. The files are there. I did a https://dev-jenkins.domain-name/reload , etc. Here's the error I'm getting.

Jun 15, 2024 1:24:03 AM WARNING com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.AbstractFolder loadChildren

could not load /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/job-name


I have no idea why we have the plugin or if we need it.

TIA

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How to switch from Developer to Devops

Hey everyone hope you guys are having a great week end I am a .NET developer with 2 years of work experience who recently got laid off I am not more interested to work with .net I have some handson experience working with azure CI/CD pipelines terraform I have worked on GCP to azure complete transition.......With 2 years of experience can I switch to devops do I need any certification from azure or AWS or can I improve my knowledge in learning devops and search for job what are the topic i need to cover

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Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

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Open Source Contribution via DevOps

Open Source Contribution provides very good practical opportunities and experience for Software Engineers, but I am not able to figure out how it can help me as a budding DevOps Engineer practically.
If anyone has any thoughts, ideas etc. please do share.

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Fortnite engineering

Is there a place where I can found info about how actually works all infra structure in Fortnite?

I'm really curious about about Fortnite process for example match making, avoid down time, concurrency, commands synchronization etc.

Also I really don't realize how they control things like avoid broken emotes with all skins, making all skins compatibles with all the emotes and things like that

Is there Any Fortnite engineer here that could bring interesting stuff to this conversation?

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I did the career shift, finally!

Hello everyone,

I've been studying DevOps for a long time now, and I'm excited to share that I've earned my (CKA) certification! My next goal is to obtain the AWS (SAA) certification to enhance my resume.

I used to work as a core telecom engineer, but I realized that the field is quite niche. This led me to make the decision to transition to DevOps, a field I'm truly passionate about. I would wake up every day excited to study and learn more about it, and now, I'm thrilled to say that I'll be starting my new job in DevOps soon. I can't wait!

Do you have any tips for someone just starting out in this field? I have a week-long vacation between the two jobs, and I want to use this time effectively to prepare and get ready for this new chapter.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

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Offer to manage legacy Jenkins systems for 30% Higher Salary: Should I Take It?

Hello everyone, I have just entered my 40s and am an average-skilled software developer.

In the past, I have some experience in developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab, and now I am currently working as a React/Java developer. Recently, I received an offer to work as a DevOps engineer at a large corporation that heavily uses Jenkins.

The reason they are hiring me, someone with a mixed career of development and CI/CD experience, instead of a DevOps expert, is probably because their Groovy scripts have become very large and complex, necessitating a dedicated software engineer to refactor/manage them. My main responsibilities would be developing and maintaining Jenkins pipelines for on-prem legacy systems, which would account for about 60-70% of my work, with the remainder involving DevOps tool development using Python and shell scripts, and cloud infra automation tasks as some of their services are running on the cloud. I feel that if I stay here for 3-4 years, I might find it difficult to come back to a developer or work on anything other than managing legacy Jenkins tasks, yet the salary is 30% higher than my current one, which makes the decision challenging. TBH, I don't have extensive experience in managing Jenkins, so I'm not sure if the job is going to be terrible or surprisingly manageable..

Would you take a 30% salary increase to manage legacy Jenkins systems? What would you do in my situation?

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Virtualization vs Cloud and the Future of DevOps.

While I am not here to debate which cloud platform is better or on-prem vs cloud in general, I am seeing many organizations debate moving from purely cloud back to more of a hybrid model and using on-premise virtualization technologies.

However across the devOps ecosystem, I’m seeing training platform after training platform focus on the cloud big 3, AWS, Azure, GCP, and I hardly ever see much focus on DevOps for VMware or Hyper-V.

I’ll definitely agree it’s much easier to spin things up in the cloud and it mostly “works”… how well is debateable and largely depends on the skill sets deploying things. For on prem to work well there’s probably an even larger spread of things to account for, but would like to hear from you all about these thoughts in general.

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Database corruption

So long story short we were doing a upgrade of a rreally old server and the mysql database had corrupted files in it. Even the backups are with corrupted files so the upgrade got stucked we had to downgrad again from mysql v8 to 5.7 like it was. We got most of the tables but two key tables still wont open. We tried everything under the sun with mysql commands mysqlcheck start in safe u think it we tried it. Our only and last hope now are the partition.ibd files in /var/lib/mysql/databaename anyone has any idea how to extract the data from them?

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Is DevOps realistic for my experience?

Been working in tech support for about 4 years. Don’t want to go escalations or administrator but but am only a couple classes away from finishing my bachelors in CS this upcoming fall. Haven’t really done web development much. I want to program heavy though on my own this next half year and plan for after graduation. Build a portfolio of fun projects, get certs, etc.

I have the opportunity to maybe liiightly touch some C#, .NET, azure functions, and some other frameworks to help automate stuff at my job but they won’t have a FT position for years potentially cause they are tiny and also wouldn’t pay much. Most posts I’ve seen here say it’s sort of an end game type of dev position, so I wonder if I would be better suited doing web dev boot camps and building up my portfolio, or seeing if I can do part time research work under a professor. They usually parse/store data or do low level programming for different systems.

Want to make this summer and fall count, but won’t put all my eggs in the devops basket if it’s considered more senior level. Thanks for any help. Trying to decide how to best improve my job prospects for a FT dev position and don’t want to get ahead of myself

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Why do you do your work??

What do you think are the factors that motivate a developer? Do you think that creativity is a factor that can influence motivation or productivity?
Share your experiences!


For this purpose I am also conducting a survey on motivation in IT developers.
I have produced a questionnaire aimed exclusively at those who already work in this sector and which takes only two minutes to fill out:

https://forms.gle/pkqfMRMjFrN6TmZN6

You would be a great help in collecting data if you could fill it out.

Thank you all so much in advance 🫶🏼

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Switch from HW to HW infrastructure

Does anyone have any advice to offer to me? I'm a HW design engineer, I work for a very very big company. Hint: AI. I'm mostly involved in designing chips.

I've started to take an interest in the "flow" side of things, i.e. infrastructure. Dashboards, pipelines, regressions and tools etc.

But I find that the moment I dive deeper into it, i am lost. I realise I want to go this direction, but I don't know shit. At the end of it all, I'm a HW engineer. I don't know REST APIs, dealing with JSON files, creating data pipelines, setting up frontend and backend servers.

It's like I can define the problem statement well and identify pain points in the day to day lives of fellow engineers, I can envision the solution but can't implement it.

How do I proceed further?

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Malicious VSCode Extensions Uncovered, Beware my fellow DevOps Engineers

Malicious VSCode Extensions Uncovered: Millions of Installs at Risk! Beware my fellow DevOps Engineers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered/

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Projects for a fresher in Devops

Hi everyone,

I am a fresher and want to make a career in devops but my resume is not getting shortlisted anywhere even though I have necessary knowledge of the tools and their implementation (maybe not at pat with the industry standard but decent enough when you take my fresher tag into consideration).

I feel that maybe I need some decent projects for my resume but dont know what are the projects that need to be made. Eg. Creating a CI pipeline using jenkins is a easy job and maybe is not a resume worthy project. Also how do you keep your devops project running since the EC2 instances on active will start incurring charges specially a t2.medium for kubernetes. What do you guys say and what are those projects that got you into devops. Please share the project ideas so that my resume will shine the brightest in the room. :-)

Sorry if any of my query soundss stupid and Thanks in advance

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Shifting develop workload to on-prem from AWS

As mentioned in the title we are thinking of moving our develop and testing environment to on-prem(cloud or physical), we will move the VPC and resources, will still keep using on-demand services like SQS, DynamoDB and SNS. I am looking for some resources to implement this, I want to know if anyone has tried this before? If yes, can someone guide me on this? or if there are blogs to do this, it would be really helpful.

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