I can't believe I haven't seen external secrets before. Sealed secrets are cool, but such a pain as you described. Gonna be setting up external secrets next week sounds like. Thanks for the great post

Im a bit late to the show, but I personally feel like you are heading down the wrong path. Unless you are trying to completely host locally, but for some reason want your backups in the cloud, and not simply on separate local server, you are mixing your design for seemingly no reason. If you are hosting locally, you should back up to a separate local instance.

If you indeed are cloud based, you SHOULD NOT be hosting a DB separately. Since you specified S3, you are using AWS, and you should rather use RDS managed mySQL and should use the snapshot feature built in. ref

I am not as familiar with Cloud Native DevOps Newsletter but I do enjoy the podcast

December 8th, 2009 - Motorola Droid successfully rooted ... [granting] root access on the phone using a terminal emulator. This is how I learned bash which inevitably pushed me into pursuing proper Computer Science.

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Interesting perspective I hadn't considered before, thanks for sharing. Also, not sure where the Java 7 thing comes from, but I run Java 17 with gradle/kotlin non-android, works very well in IntelliJ, outside of consuming a million gigs of ram lol

I believe in GitHub branch protection rules, you can set required review by a code owner, as well as set an amount of reviews required.

You are also able to structure codeowner files and assign codeowners to certain paths within the repo that they "own", rather than all or nothing.

You are able to set bypass rules for certain individuals, and as repo admin there is a little checkbox on PRs that will appear by default to allow you to ignore the requirements, although it is generally not recommended, but I won't harp on the reasons others have already pointed out.

disclaimer: I mainly work on a GHES instance, which may be function slightly different than public GH

I'm not big on Samsung devices outside TVs/monitors (although expensive, definitely best quality IMO). However, I am a fan of them leaning toward affordability to the average consumer! Assuming able to root, remove Tizen, and install from custom ROM, I may look into getting one of these now.

Great call out.

Definitely their products. I think things like buck2 are rad.

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Edit: You said subscript not stikethrough 🤦

Although I despise their software, I do enjoy their engineering blogs, thanks for sharing.

I am still fairly new to Steam deck (~6 months).

Outside of having the dock to allow for normal USB ports for both keyboard and mouse (without converters and such), this awesome steam-deck-tricks readme/repo is majorly where I have been learning from.

The major catch is rootfs read only and strategizing how to avoid reinstalls after steam updates. I haven't quite gotten all the way there yet since I am using it more for tinkering (linux host on local network) for the time being.

This aligns with my experience with enterprise contract work. Generally need to have a pre-existing relationship to get a foot in the door. For me this has come from building strong relationships with other devs at the same company. Some of those devs will move on and go down the management track, the higher up they get, and depending on your relationship, the more likely they would want to bring you in for a specific thing since "I've seen RandomDevOpsDude implement this successfully before, why not get him to do it again?" style.