transcripts VS gossip-glomers

- While experimenting with machines, after many creations & deletions, one volume could not be deleted. Next day, the volume was gone.

That's about it after 15 months of running production workloads on Fly.io.

We mention about our Fly.io experience often in our Kaizen pod episodes, which we publish every ~2 months: https://changelog.com/topic/kaizen. For anyone curious, this is the episode in which we announced the migration: https://changelog.com/shipit/50. There is a detailed PR which goes with it: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/407. We've been talking about our migration plan from apps v1 (Nomad) to apps v2 (flyd) recently: https://changelog.com/friends/2#transcript-138

I'm sorry to hear that many of you didn't have the best experience. I know that things will continue improving at Fly.io. My hope is that one day, all these hard times will make for great stories. This gives me hope: https://community.fly.io/t/reliability-its-not-great/11253

Keep improving.

https://changelog.com/ https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ https://www.devopsbulletin.com/

Changelog (main, Go Time, Ship It)

Join Developer community forums like dev.to, Hashnode, Dzone, DevOps subreddit, Stackoverflow, DevOps StackExchange, Changelog, etc DevOps is taking the center stage and as we have mentioned before, it is becoming the epitome of software development. DevOps engineers are one of the highest-paid professionals in the world and this is the demanding tech job currently around the world. DevOps is a good career path and a proper plan and approach will get you a good job but once you get into it, it is highly recommended to always keep learning since the DevOps space is always evolving and new tools are emerging day by day. BTW, sometimes it can be difficult to get hired as a DevOps engineer without any prior work experience or knowledge of different tools and automation techniques, we at KodeKloud have come up with the KodeKloud Engineer to help you gain free DevOps work experience by solving real DevOps problems and challenges, with which you can get hired for DevOps role. Sign up for Free here.

I haven’t had much luck finding programming podcasts involving ecosystems outside of JavaScript. That said, my top JS pick is JS Party. Also good tech/ coding related are The Changlog and Corecursive.

Changelog

Personally I check Hacker News for some brain candy around once a day. I also read Lobsters for a slower moving but equally more thorough stream of tech news. Podcasts are an equally great source of information about what's happening. I like to listen to random episodes on the Changelog master feed.

There's a nice-looking series of exercises from fly.io: https://fly.io/dist-sys/

(I haven't actually done them myself yet, but they look great. Not a standalone resource, but good for practice)

Really worth noting that Maelstrom was the project they used to build the "Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenge" https://fly.io/dist-sys/ which was pretty popular at one point and discussed here, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897723

LiteFS works similarly to async replication you'd find in Postgres or MySQL so it doesn't try to be as strict as something running a distributed consensus protocol like Raft. The guarantees for async replication are fairly loose so I'm not sure Jepsen testing would be useful for that per se.

On the LiteFS Cloud side, it currently does streaming backups so it has similar guarantees but we are expanding its feature set and I could see running Jepsen testing on that in the future. We worked with Kyle Kingsbury in the past on some distributed systems challenges[1] and he was awesome to work with. Would definitely love to engage with him again.

[1]: https://fly.io/dist-sys/

They have really good tech blog posts. Also, they have https://fly.io/dist-sys/

- https://hackattic.com/ : Interesting programming Problems.

- https://sadservers.com/ : Learn Linux by solving problems.

- https://fly.io/dist-sys/ : Distributed Systems Problems.

- https://github.com/pingcap/talent-plan/ : System Programming / Distributed System Challenge.

- https://protohackers.com/ : Server Programming Challenges.

- https://codecrafters.io/ : Implement server tech / softwares from scratch.

- https://hyperskill.org/ : Lots of projects based tutorials.

- https://fly.io/dist-sys/ : Distributed Systems Problems.

Gossip Glomers https://fly.io/dist-sys/ by fly.io is a great way to learn distributed systems. They are fun to solve challenges. zio-maelstrom helps you get started faster in Scala!

There’s also this to practice https://fly.io/dist-sys/

Yeah no the embedded stuff is more a hobby, I'm interested professionally in stuff like what you said you're doing now in another comment, distributed systems and such. Infrastructure for cloud providers, that kind of thing. Right now I'm doing this distributed systems challenge series thing https://fly.io/dist-sys/ which should be cool to put on my github.