Content here is by Michael Still, mikal@stillhq.com.
A very well written tale of a Wall Street quant who left during the GFC to adventure in startup land and ended up at Facebook attempting to solve their monetization problems for an indifferent employer. Martinez must have been stomping around Mountain View because his description of the environment and what its like to work…
Its been ages since I’ve read a book in a couple of days, let alone stayed up late when I really shouldn’t in order to finish a book. Artemis is the book which broke me out of that rut — this is a fun, clever, light read. Its quite different when compared to The Martian, but…
A very readable set of essays from Robyn Williams, the broadcaster of the Australian Science Show, not the comedian. Covering the state of modern science, journalism, the ABC, and whether modern democracy is doomed in an approachable and very readable form. I enjoyed this book greatly. A good Sunday morning and vacation read if you’re…
The true life story of a kid from Bribie Island (I’ve been there!) running a marathon in Antartica, via being a touring musical comedian, doing things like this: This book is an interesting and light read, and came kindly recommended by Michael Carden, who pretty much insisted I take the book off him at a…
I’m doing the Linux Foundation Kubernetes Fundamentals course at the moment, and I was very disappointed in the chapter on Ingress Controllers. To be honest it feels like an after thought — there is no lab, and the provided examples don’t work if you re-type them into Kubernetes (you can’t cut and paste of course,…
I’ve been thinking a fair bit about ONAP and its future releases recently. This is in the context of trying to implement a system for a client which is based on ONAP. Its really hard though, because its hard to determine how various components of ONAP are intended to work, or interoperate. It took me a…
The following is a blog post version of a talk presented at pyconau 2018. Slides for the presentation can be found here (as Microsoft powerpoint, or as PDF), and a video of the talk (thanks NextDayVideo!) is below: OpenStack is an orchestration system for setting up virtual machines and associated other virtual resources such as…
city2surf 2018 was yesterday, so how did the race go? First off, thanks to everyone who helped out with my fund raising for the Black Dog Institute — you raised nearly $2,000 AUD for this important charity, which is very impressive. Thanks for everyone’s support! city2surf is 14kms, with 166 meters of vertical elevation gain….
Dear humans of the Internet — there is ONE WEEK LEFT to propose talks for linux.conf.au 2019. LCA is one of the world’s best open source conferences, and we’d love to hear you speak! Unsure what to propose? Not sure if your talk is what the conference would normally take? Just want a chat?…
This proposal was submitted for pyconau 2018. It wasn’t accepted, but given I’d put the effort into writing up the proposal I’ll post it here in case its useful some other time. The oblique references to OpensStack are because pycon had an “anonymous” review system in 2018, and I was avoiding saying things which directly…