Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset

Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality. Drift detection remains a challenge as systems scale up and become ever more automated. In an ideal world, everything would be controlled. However, in the real world, things tend to …

[ChoHag]

Reboot often, to ensure you can.

Unfortunately I lack the silly con mindset and will be unable to monetise the reboot(8) command.

[CowHorseFrog]

THIS article reminds me of the elections, everybody talks about democracy but in the end 2 or 3 people do all the talking and non of the listening. At TheReg we have ceos doing al the talking, and just like the politicians all they do is talk bullsht and pretend everyone is equal.

[GraXXoR]

As a small business owner dealing with deployments to small medium enterprise I’ve been trying to train myself to perform EVERYTHINNG as a migration. And issue a rollback … be it database updates, crontab edits, batch scripting.

It’s so hard overcoming the old habits of just winging it and creating “ad-lib” fixes… Even though I know my old easy-going self where I would completely forget what i did to solve the problem, when I redeploy the issue resurfaces.

Making sure EVERY change is recorded as a migration step is the only way I can ever hope to roll back or redeploy.

It’s tiresome, unrewarding work but a necessary burden.

[ecofeco]

A good companion article from way back.

https://medium.com/@antweiss/learned-helplessness-in-software-engineering-648527b32e27