A career in tech is less about learning a specific tool as it is the willingness to learn a different tool when the time comes.
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Kelsey Hightower
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Today I've been reminded that The Protocol is shutting down. I'll be forever grateful to for writing this profile of me.
If you want to read it, this is your final chance. Tom covers not just my tech career, but my personal journey, and the people behind it.
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I never fully understood how far I've come until I read someone else tell my story.
"From McDonald's to Google: How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing" by @tomkrazit protocol.com/kelsey-hightow
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I revisit this thread from time to time.
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At some point I made the decision to focus on foundational concepts; not features of a particular implementation; my tech career took off.
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At some point I made the decision to focus on foundational concepts; not features of a particular implementation; my tech career took off.
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“What people saw me doing with Kubernetes was basically learning in public. I was really excited about the technology because it's attempting to solve a very complex thing.” — Kelsey Hightower ()
Have a listen: buff.ly/3BHRQoD
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Back in 2016, I stumbled upon this CLASSIC! youtube.com/watch?v=HlAXp0. I'd just moved to the USA from Africa where WinServer is King. My Linux skills were alarming & I'd never heard of K8s. Anyway the rest is history, I'm now the K8s SME at work. Forever thankful
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This isn't investing advice but NASA is going to the moon! nasa.gov/specials/artem
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Brendan is always working on something dope.
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And if you want to get started fast w/ WAGI and a variety of languages, check out github.com/dev-wasm/
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Based on what I know about WASM, and its limitations, which are by design, this is a perfect paring. Given the typical WASM runtime sandbox capabilities, WASM is a good fit for a multi tenant serverless platform.
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The Common Gateway Interface enables you to write web applications using any programming language, even bash. Just place your "command" in the right place and it'll be invoked with all the HTTP stuff available through stdin or env vars. This is the OG serverless platform.
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I'm getting some hands on time with WASM by playing around with and their spin framework. I was surprised to see a blast from the bast, CGI, make an appearance in the docs. Love when fundamentals from the past help me understand the future. developer.fermyon.com/spin/http-trig
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I found myself arguing with someone today for no good reason. I've been really good about not doing that. Disagreements are fine, so are debates, but arguing, from a place of anger, or allowing simple discourse to get heated isn't something I see value in.
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ChatGPT agrees with me and now I'm a fan.
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I'd like some critical feedback on my understanding of Linux containerization, mainly the way tools like Docker do it focused on applications vs something like LXC or even Solaris Zones which focus on running additional OS instances.
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I'll yield that OS virtualization is a thing, it's not a term I use because unlike Solaris Zones or IBM's implementations of past, I don't consider what we have in Linux to be on par with that level of isolation.
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I've been married for over 16 years. Partnership is an understatement.
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The problem in the container space is some people treat containers like VMs and package full operating systems as the base layer, shipping around more files and dependencies than they need, while recreating the same security challenges we see in server patch management.
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I'd like to hear more about the security part. In my case, container images only package a single statically linked Go binary.
When I package a Lambda function in a zip file or a use a container image with the same bits, I have the same problem in terms of securing the contents.
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Yes but when you use a container image you have to still contend with managing the security issues that come with it.
I genuinely don't think this is talked about enough. It's understood, but thought of as a "solved problem" when it isn't.
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No matter how complex your application is, it still needs to run somewhere. There are many packaging formats, and 10 times as many platforms to run them on. I doubt there will be one platform to rule them all, so come to terms with all this stuff coexisting.
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Lots of people conflate container images, which are used to package and distribute applications, and container runtimes, which unpacks what's inside then hands off to the underlying OS to run.
Applications include serverless functions or code that runs on a WebAssembly runtime.
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Running Lambda container images on Cloud Run. 
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There was no better motivational tool than all you can eat popcorn shrimp.
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Sizzlers
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What was the “celebration restaurant” your family ate at when you were a child that you didn’t realize was not, in fact, a 5-star establishment until you became an adult?
Ours was CiCi’s Pizza.
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1/ I'm excited to announce that Grammy award-winning producer Dallas Austin has partnered with to offer first-ever music distribution deals using smart contracts.
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WebAssembly, like any other application runtime, is designed to run Wasm applications on top of an operating system. How Wasm applications get deployed to an operating system, running on a server, connected to a network, with its specific configuration, is left up to the user.
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This is like saying HTTP can replace Linux.
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Yes, WebAssembly Can Replace Kubernetes ift.tt/zbZBpQX
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"Capitalism has always had these two faces - on the one hand, the face of a unique engine of prosperity and innovation, on the other the face of casino capitalism, of speculation and crash." - Political Governance of Capitalism
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casino capitalism
Noun
1. A form of capitalism in which large speculative ventures engage in high-risk economic behaviors, especially when they contribute to an economic bust.
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What's happening?
Casino capitalism.
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The Black Tax is about hedging against hidden obstacles. Working twice as hard for the same recognition earned by non-Black folks.
coming with it as always, speaking on building a reputation bigger than a corporate title.
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"I asked myself, 'What would it take for me not to need a LinkedIn profile?'
...so I worked on my reputation" -
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A lot of people are going to be buying raspberry pi this Christmas with advising on learning lower-level infrastructure fundamentals on this space today
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I need to start crafting the next job to be more in alignment with where I am. I got to start grinding a little bit smarter. What's the next job that I don't have on call? What's the next job that's going to rely rely on more of my skill than my endurance? 🔥
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"I tried some of everything so I could be anything." -
This right here hit the hardest. My whole vibe in tech up to this point and didn't even know it.
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"Angie is at the top, Anthony is at the top, Esco is at the top, why, because you gotta be at the top to pull someone else up"
redefining what it means to be at the top and how it is a personal measure too.
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I got just got access to the questions for the upcoming Twitter Space later this afternoon and I'm looking forward to answering all of them.
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Join us today for an AMA with one of the most respected engineers in the industry who recently gained the legendary "Distinguished Engineer" title at Google! @kelseyhightower on Twitter spaces 
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Join us today for an AMA with one of the most respected engineers in the industry who recently gained the legendary "Distinguished Engineer" title at Google! on Twitter spaces 👉🏿 twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJp
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