The Iron Sysadmin

Welcome to Episode 128 Main Topic

1. Blog by David Heinemeier Hansson https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0 
   1. He’s a Danish programmer, and the Creator of Ruby on Rails
   2. He is also co-founder of both Basecamp and HEY
      1. https://basecamp.com/ 
      2. https://hey.com/ 
   3. And, an Author
      1. https://basecamp.com/books/rework 
      2. https://basecamp.com/books/calm/ 
      3. https://basecamp.com/books/remote/ 
      4. https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real/ 
   1. Basecamp has been at least partially in the cloud for a long time
   2. HEY was started in the cloud.
   3. Various platforms and technologies
      1. Bare vms
      2. K8s
      3. Google
      4. Amazon
   4. “Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth.”
   5. Two ends of the scale:
      1. Low-end, when your application is simple, low workloads, you benefit from the simplicity of managed services
      2. Irregular “bursty” end, where you have a certain sustained workload, but it has a tendency to burst, and then settle. 
   6. Middle of the scale:
      1. Workloads that have consistent traffic, and stable growth
   7. Cost vs Complexity
      1. A lot of server hardware could be bought for half a million a year
      2. Argument being, managing those servers.
      1. Half a million spend for HEY per year. 
      2. But how true is that, really?
   8. And then there’s centralization…
      1.  
   1. Who is David Heinemeier Hansson https://dhh.dk/?
   2. So what about this post.

 

 

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Welcome to Episode 128b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• American Cancer Society Funds are up to $224.48
• name_pending197
• Jeremy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• David
• S0l3mn
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
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Reviews

(nothing new)

Chat

• Nate
• What’s up with Elon and Twitter?
• Im ditching the google wifi
• Unclemarc
  • Fixed version attached to https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2550999 
  • Although I’m just about to hire a new nerd
• Going for the large 3D Haunted Mansion print
• Been on vacation for almost 2 weeks, not a lot of tech news happening

News

• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/microsoft-puts-the-l-in-android-12l-updates-surface-duo-7-months-late/ 
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/meta-stock-falls-23percent-on-earnings-miss-analyst-downgrades.html 
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/google-profits-plummet-27-percent-in-q3-2022-earnings-report/
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/google-can-now-remove-your-identifying-search-results-if-theyre-the-right-kind/ 

 

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Welcome to Episode 127 Main Topic

• Microservices
  • “Simpler” code?
  • Easily scalable?
  • “Complex” deployment?
  •  
• What are they?
• Why build like that?
• How do you interact with a microservice?
• Pros/Cons ?
• Service Discovery
  • Consul / etcd / Zookeeper
  • https://www.consul.io/
  • https://etcd.io/
  • https://zookeeper.apache.org/
• What?  Why?
• Service Mesh?
  • Consul / Istio / Linkerd
  • https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/connect
  • https://istio.io/
  • https://linkerd.io/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_Multi-megabit_Data_Service
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_Relay
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_networking
• What?  Why?
• *kinda like* SMDS / Frame Relay / ATM / SDN
• “Free” mTLS and encryption !!!

 

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Welcome to Episode 127 Announcements

• Patreon Update
  • name_pending197
  • Jeremy
  • Arinomi
  • Andrew
  • Tatro
  • Bruce
  • Robert
  • David
  • S0l3mn
  • LiNuXsys666
  • Mark
  • The Mentor
  • Marc
  • Julius
  • Andi
  • J
  • Charles
• American Cancer Society Funds are up to $224.48
• Patrons:
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 
• DC610 pubcrawl coming up 11/19! 

Chat

• [Nate]
  • From ebay, It’s an HP Proliant 
  • It’s like a decade old, but has 24 xeon cores, and 96gb of memory. 
  • I paid under $180 including shipping.
  • https://labgopher.com 
• I bought a new old server…
• 3d printer is acting up a bit. 
• Started a new hacky project on the jeep. Or, at least started planning it and getting parts together anyway. 
• Getting a donkey (must be rideable)
• [XenoPhage]
  • Want a “server” board…  64G-128G max, start w/ 32G ..  Maybe dual CPU?
  • Thinking maybe the AMD Epyc?
  • 6+ SATA
  • https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeckdock
• Starting to think about building a new server
• Got a new toy for the Steam Deck…
• Honey-do list++

News

• https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/12/drone-roof-attack/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdk4Zw2oYdc
• https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/carmack-wants-a-250-vr-headset-to-counterpoint-the-1499-quest-pro/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouq5yyzSiAw
• https://www.wired.com/story/us-chip-sanctions-kneecap-chinas-tech-industry/
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23402171/firefox-relay-phone-masking-service-privacy-security 
• https://cybernews.com/privacy/dji-drone-tracking-data-exposed-in-us/

 

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Welcome to Episode 126a Main Topic

Lift and Shift

1. What is a lift and shift?
2. Why would I lift and shift?
3. What are the negatives to the lift and shift?
4. How can I perform a lift and shift?
   1. At Merck, unclemarc and another Linux dude created a boot ISO to move on site VMs to EC2. Would work on physical hosts too!

 

 

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Welcome to Episode 129b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• name_pending197
• Jeremy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• David
• S0l3mn
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 
• Nate co-hosting Into The Terminal 09/30 at noon est.

Chat

• [unclemarc]
  • Printed a cool stand for it - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5363356/files
  • Enabled sshd on the Steam Deck for access via my laptop
  • My son’s Deck is sitting over there, we’re bringing it to him on Sunday
• Steam Deck
• Having fun interviewing for a new TAM for my team
• [gangrif]
  • https://www.skylightframe.com 
• Got a “Skylight” frame/calendar. Its pretty neat
• Also.. trying out the other evil spying device.. Amazon alexa.
• And finally playing Elden Ring.
• Very curious about Bone Lab (vr game)
• [xenophage]
  • Also Watchdogs:Legion, Ni No Kuni, and Secret of Monkey Island !
• Kubernetes !
• Lots of FFXIV

News

• https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-encryption-vulns-in-matrix-sdks-and-clients 
• https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:mts8v95r5a78s241hyx92pnt3eagr
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023 
  • Driver: https://github.com/ViGEm/ViGEmBus/releases 
  • Emulator: https://github.com/71/stadiacontroller/releases 
• Stadia Controllers on Windows:
• https://theintercept.com/2022/09/28/cia-extinction-woolly-mammoth-dna/ 
• https://www.npr.org/2022/09/20/1124096032/stay-hungry-stay-foolish 
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/meta-announces-hiring-freeze-warns-employees-of-restructuring 

 

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Welcome to Episode 125 Main Topic

• Intro to Cloud
• Private Cloud (is it really a cloud? What makes it different from “my computers”?)
• Public Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Understanding Cloud Acronyms and Terminology
  • IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
  • PaaS - Platform as a Service
  • SaaS - Software as a Service
  • MaaS - Marc as a Service
  • Instance
  • Container
  • Serverless
  • Load Balancer
  • Floating/Virtual IP
  • Virtual Network
  • WAF
  • Firewall
  • Interconnects
  • VPNs
  • Block Storage
  • Object Storage
  • Hot Storage
  • Cold storage
  • Filer or File Storage
  • Disk Image
  • API
  • Web Based Console
  • Cloud Management Portal
  • CLI Tools
• https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/cloud-terminology-glossary 
• Types of services
• Compute Terminology
• Network Terminology
• Storage Terminology
• Interfaces

 

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Welcome to Episode 125b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• name_pending197
• Jeremy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• David
• S0l3mn
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• [email protected]
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

Chat

• [gangrif]
  • Starting in September, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat
• New Job! 
• Playing “The Last Campfire”
• [unclemarc]
• Bored. Been stuck home with Covid since last Saturday. At least I should be super immune for Disney in October. But my GTA Online character is much wealthier now
• Arcade Paradise on the Steam Deck is my most recent “new fun game”
• [xenophage]
  • I’m playing Wrath of the White Witch .. Never played the others
• Uh..  Final Fantasy XIV
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni_no_Kuni

 

News

 

• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/facebook-login-button-disappearing-from-websites-on-privacy-concerns.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/08/treasury-crypto-warn-white-house/
• https://twitter.com/bitcoinmagazine/status/1567883215733460994?s=21&t=oESwzdWofRwdaxo_9O2I8A
• https://i.redd.it/7bpapo8yw2c51.jpg

 

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423 
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility 
• https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1567974063578185728

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Welcome to Episode 124 Main Topic

• AI and Ethics…
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/w6g9hk/google_fires_researcher_who_claimed_lamda_ai_was/
• Blake Lemoine
• Was part of Responsible AI project
• Fired after going public (washington post) claiming that Google’s LaMDA had gained sentience.
• Chess robot that broke a boy’s finger
• https://nypost.com/2022/06/12/google-engineer-blake-lemoine-claims-ai-bot-became-sentient/ 
• How do we know when something is “Sentient”
• What is Sentient anyway? 
• What does it mean when an inanimate object becomes sentient?
• Does it get freedom? 
• Is it still “Just a thing”? 
• AI taught to play D&D - https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/ai-player
• LaMDA Whitepaper
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08239.pdf
• AI and the future?
• https://www.ted.com/talks/jeanette_winterson_is_humanity_smart_enough_to_survive_itself
• Wrap up
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fired-engineer-says-he-begged-google-to-test-whether-experimental-ai-was-sentient/ar-AA10J23l 

Announcements

• Patreon Update
• name_pending197
• Jeremy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• David
• S0l3mn
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• [email protected]
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

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Welcome to Episode 123 Main Topic

• What does it look like to work in IT today?
  • Iron syadmin’s have been around a long time, things have changed since we got our starts in this industry.  
  • Can you start off the street or do you need certs and education?
  • Help Desk
  • Classic “sysadmin”
  • Legacy admin (old skool Unix and prior)
  • DevSecBizCheeseOps
  • Novell/legacy to Windows to Linux in data centers
  • Cloud based tech
  • Software as a service/components
  • Mobile apps
  • Automation
• Intro:
• What is entry level now?
• What are some roles and how have they changed?
• How have techs changed the role of IT careers?

 

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