I’m working on https://screenplay.dev, where test every change against a battery of open source iOS apps (Wikipedia, signal, etc). We started on GitHub actions, but found it much cheaper to buys ~4 Mac mini’s and run them in the office. It takes a little love to keep them up to date and stable (maybe an hour a week), but in return we get cheap, debuggable Mac computer. I like that more offerings are appearing, but at this price, we’ll stick to our furnace of Mac mini’s for now.
I've played a few sessions on this platform, including a session across the country with my sister for her birthday. Big fan - if you find a solid DM, this can make quarantine a lot more fun.
It’s quite common. Many men wear plug earrings. It’s true, hanging earrings are rare for men. When i was a teenager I was wearing one in my left year. Looking back it makes me cringe, I dont know why.
I have had my ears pierced and would happily re-pierce them for the right wearable, but their current designs absolutely would look clownish twinned with most masculine outfits.
Incidents _requiring_ rolling forward are extremely rare. In the cases you have to, just build the image and deploy to your cluster with a high max-surge configured.
If you image has correct caching, rebuilding it shouldn't take much time. Most of your time is likely spent in CI and rolling deployments, both of which you can manually skip.
This is the hangup for most CI/CD systems with containers. Typical configurations (e.g. Gitlab basic setup) don't leverage any caching, so every container is built 100% from scratch, every time.
Adjusting the system to properly utilize caching and ordering your container builds in a way that the most volatile steps are as late as possible in the build will massively speed up container builds.
At Airbnb, we built an internal tool called Deployboard which made it easy for engineers to promote deployments across environments. Then we transitioned over to Spinnaker in order to codify deployment processes and help automate the analysis of canary metrics.
I agree completely with your thoughts on this. So many times things start out as a small rebellion against a norm, become cool, and then eventually become the standard.
