Well. Isn’t this rather embarrassing. I realized I missed a mailing list when starting the loop. And that is DevOps’ish which I thought I could catch up with .. and then be done. But unfortunately the author got laid off so restarted it.

I’ve got 101 messages in this folder from December 2019 (with some gaps), so it will absolutely be a multiple part series. It is also fun to see the optimism people had for 2020, the introduction of things like Graviton … and broken link shorteners/trackers. And the world still being taken over by k8s…

Also, the oldest message ends with What amount of joy did this week's newsletter bring you? which is great. More joy please.

  • Vagaries of Git Merge – Git is terrible, but is better than what we had. But there /has/ to be something better.
  • Building Compassion and [The Forks We Carry]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U938StRcH00) – kinda a twofor. Don’t watch these on transit if you are empathetic. But do watch them. She’s great. Another person I lost track of with the loss of Twitter.
  • Using ML to Block BGP Hijacking – Boiling water for this is better than to make a caricature of yourself
  • Not directly a link from the newsletter, but remember when Cloudbees was ‘just’ a commercial Jenkins? Good grief it is more than that now. I hadn’t thought about them in forever but just checked their site.
  • Intelligent DNS based load balancing at Dropbox – Again, problems I expect to never have to solve, but happy that the people who do document them.
  • Stop Making Students Use Eclipse – The 2020 version of ‘Stop Letting Students Use AI’ – which I 100% agree with.
  • How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy – More nerdiness from Dropbox
  • An Introduction to ZFS A Place to Start – I need either more caffiene, or less, to properly parse this right now.
  • See earlier commentary about Cloudbees but apply it to Mozilla. At some point it seemed like I would end up there for a bit in my career. Now… less so. I’ve never even heard of 0din.