Good article. I’ve been seeing them since 2009 and their operation is fascinating. Everything is planned, structured, coordinated and optimized, so the music can be chaotic.
I’ve seen them 80 times (which isn’t even that much in the community), and have had many moments where I thought I might be over it. Is all the expense and time worth it? A four night run (much less 13) is exhausting. I’ll never stop though. It’s as much about a familiar ritual as seeking new experiences.
It is said that nobody hates Phish fans more than other Phish fans. When you fly halfway across the country just to stand next to drunk people talking all night (“chompers”), it’s hard to disagree.
I think a key part of their shtick is random variable reward. Not every show will be a banger, but there are enough legendary moments that there can be a feeling of chasing great shows, songs and moments. Like Pokemon pretty much.
As a musician I realized that it’s impossible to control whether a show will be great. Even Phish can’t fully control that, thus the random variable reward is incidental. Although, they say there’s no such thing as a bad Phish show.
Thanks for your work on Phish.in! I’ve used it a lot over the years.
Not sure if you remember this, but I used to run phishtrackstats.com and you let me integrate my api with phish.in. That was a big deal for me at the time.
I always search for mentions of Hashicorp Nomad in the comments section of front-page Kubernetes articles like this. There are often few or no mentions, so I’d like to add a plug for the Hashistack.
For some reason Nomad seems to get noticeably less publicity than some of the other Hashicorp offerings like Consul, Vault, and Terraform. In my opinion Nomad is right up there with them. The documentation is excellent. I haven’t had to fix any upstream issues in about a year of development on two separate Nomad clusters. Upgrading versions live is straightforward, and I rarely find myself in a situation where I can’t accomplish something I envisioned because Nomad is missing a feature. It schedules batch jobs, cron jobs, long running services, and system services that run on every node. It has a variety of job drivers outside of Docker.
Nomad, Consul, Vault, and the Consul-aware Fabio load balancer run together to form most of what one might need for a cluster scheduler based deployment, somewhat reminiscent of the “do one thing well” Unix philosophy of composability.
Certainly it isn’t perfect, but I’d recommend it to anyone who is considering using a cluster scheduler but is apprehensive about the operational complexity of the more widely discussed options such as Kubernetes.
I’ve seen them 80 times (which isn’t even that much in the community), and have had many moments where I thought I might be over it. Is all the expense and time worth it? A four night run (much less 13) is exhausting. I’ll never stop though. It’s as much about a familiar ritual as seeking new experiences.
It is said that nobody hates Phish fans more than other Phish fans. When you fly halfway across the country just to stand next to drunk people talking all night (“chompers”), it’s hard to disagree.
I think a key part of their shtick is random variable reward. Not every show will be a banger, but there are enough legendary moments that there can be a feeling of chasing great shows, songs and moments. Like Pokemon pretty much.
As a musician I realized that it’s impossible to control whether a show will be great. Even Phish can’t fully control that, thus the random variable reward is incidental. Although, they say there’s no such thing as a bad Phish show.