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boston_sre87 commented on New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform blog.pixielabs.ai/pixie-n... · Posted by u/htroisi

iampims · 5 years ago

Pixie agreed to be acquired by NewRelic

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

Yea, the deal is not yet closed, but assuming no regulatory hold up (think new relic is public, so if pixie is worth enough, they'll need to go through HSR) or similar stuff, they agree that the acquisition will go through.

boston_sre87 commented on New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform blog.pixielabs.ai/pixie-n... · Posted by u/htroisi

throwaway894345 · 5 years ago

What's the advantage of monitoring from the kernel layer? It's not jumping out at me...

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

It's extremely quick to do it there as well. Originally, bpf was created to replace tcpdump with a quicker less impactful alternative. People saw that it was a pretty neat alternative so they started extending it (the e in eBPF). Think they might have finally come round again and just call it BPF now again.

boston_sre87 commented on New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform blog.pixielabs.ai/pixie-n... · Posted by u/htroisi

atmosx · 5 years ago

For those who want to play with eBPF on kubernetes using an open source tool there is cilium & hubble[1], plug-and-play CNI & Network Observability tool.

[1]: https://docs.cilium.io/en/v1.9/intro/

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

These iovisor guys write some cool stuff that uses bpf, like: https://github.com/iovisor/kubectl-trace

boston_sre87 commented on Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B techcrunch.com/2020/12/07... · Posted by u/seaucre

necubi · 5 years ago

No, that was never the strategy, no matter how many times people on HN claimed it was. Both Uber and Lyft are aiming for profitability next year with human drivers.

(Disclaimer, I work for Lyft but this has been said in public many, many times by both companies.)

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

What is the strategy to get to profitability then? Have only heard of the self driving route before.

boston_sre87 commented on OpenZFS 2.0 github.com/openzfs/zfs/re... · Posted by u/ascom

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

Has there been any progress on the zfs on linux Linus disagreement front since this article?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-s...

boston_sre87 commented on Email a Dumpster Fire hey.science/dumpster-fire... · Posted by u/bschne

Alupis · 5 years ago

> P.P.S. We're offsetting by 3x every bit of CO2 this creates via Cool Effect.

Is this really how this carbon offset thing works?

You release a bunch of greenhouse gases - but it's "OK" because you pay money to some organization that might eventually plant some trees (or use your money to buy/rent fossil-fuel-burning machinery to orchestrate the planting of trees)?

Seems like guilt-avoidance to me.

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

Yep, it is.

boston_sre87 commented on Open EMR open-emr.org/... · Posted by u/hanklazard

sidlls · 5 years ago

It’s not about being sloppy. It’s about ego and hubris.

Just want to add: I work with (ex-)FAANG folks on a daily basis, too. Not all of them have egos bigger than their britches. But the ones who think “this industry just needs better software, and I can write it” sure as hell do.

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

Yes, I absolutely agree that there is a problem with greed, ego and hubris in sillicon valley. Just wanted to point out that not all engineers fall in that category. I think that confidence in writing solid software when paired with humility can lead to good outcomes. To me, it seems like the ego and hubris issue can cause the most amount of problems when an individual (e.g. zuckerberg) takes on a savior and machiavellian complex. It seems like most of them actually believe that they are making the world better and they don't see the harm that their self interested blood thirsty capitalist side does at all.

boston_sre87 commented on Open EMR open-emr.org/... · Posted by u/hanklazard

sidlls · 5 years ago

I hope like hell “FAANG caliber devs” never take an interest in this space. Or at least not until the culture changes substantially.

There are just some things that “throw devs (of any quality) at it” just doesn’t work. The health care industry is one of them.

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

Believe it or not, there are some engineers that have worked at faang companies that are not sloppy and I work with a few of them.

boston_sre87 commented on Four features that justify a new Unix shell oilshell.org/blog/2020/10... · Posted by u/diegocg

asiachick · 5 years ago

How about Powershell

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

I can't call myself a fan of powershell but if everyone switched I'd get used to it.

sh and bash both seem like they should die in a fire. They are full of foot guns that end up costing millions in breaches and lost data. The space think even bit Apple back in the day, they had some OS upgrade script that ended up deleting your entire hard drive if there was a space in the volume name.

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

I usually avoid scripting in bash or sh and use python instead on the linux side. But yea, powershell is a pretty solid shell and seems more intuitive than bash/sh. The object oriented part is pretty awesome and lets you introspect objects easily so you know what kind of properties and methods are available.

boston_sre87 commented on Unlocking eBPF power devopsspiral.com/articles... · Posted by u/zdw

tifadg1 · 5 years ago

It seems like a very cool thing, that's mostly inaccessible, due to being so archaic, to non kernel programmers.

boston_sre87 · 5 years ago

Brendan Gregg (the guy that gave that talk that the article linked to) wrote an extremely awesome book called systems performance. It is the best and most pragmatic operating system book I've read and is definitely worth a read. It will give you a better idea about how all of this eBPF stuff applies.

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