For anyone interested in a more philosophical look at how this affects people, Byung-Chul Han has some great writings about how modern technological society affects the individual in books such as The Burnout Society.
For me, I find that I have to create the conditions for it and it'll naturally come along.
Taking the quarantine for example, I initially thought I would have an infinite amount of time to read new subjects and practice on topics I haven't for awhile, but I quickly found myself spending most of my time on video games. After adjusting my schedule of daily workouts, cooking, sleeping, and everything else I thought was mundane, my motivation to start reading one esoteric security topics and browse new open source projects came back up. Like what other posters are saying, you have to take care of the rest of your life first, both physically and emotionally, and then you'll naturally be creative and daring.
I've been looking at this for awhile and it's super cool! As a person who's used Terraform extensively and has ran into a lot of issues with it's declarative, non-scriptability (at least before 0.12), pulumi seems great. And it's also great its able to wrap any Terraform-compatible provider out of the box.
One question I have for anyone who's used it or the team if they're here is how they convinced their company to use it? Last time I checked pulumi was a small company with only 20M in funding versus hashicorp which was more established. What happens if the pulumi team runs out of money and we've moved all our infra onto pulumi?
Pretty useful for design interviews and also a general overview. For a more in depth look would recommend the https://dataintensive.net/ book. It's a great deep dive into modern distributed computing and data architectures.
For cost, stackdriver works the best. Idk if they have a custom agent but Fluentd works great to ship logs to your platform of choice.
AWS cloudwatch is also good for cost but has much slower query speeds (the slowness makes me think it's not Lucene based?).
If you could splurge on hosted services, my favorite logging goes to datadog and it has all the other bits of observability built in for down the road.
https://landscape.cncf.io/ is usually my go-to if you wanna find best-in-class solutions to host yourself.
The thing that annoys me the most is that tech companies, mine included, will reimburse gladly books, but no one is ever allowed to be seen reading books at their desk on company time. Whereas being on hacker news, reddit, NYT visibly is okay. I've just started reading PDF's on my computer screen but I'd prefer a real book of the same thing most of the time.
I think we can't really expect the opposite to happen. There's not an educational system out there that would actively try to delegitimize itself or the power structures it exists in.
That being said, Chomsky's works -- especially, Understanding Power and Manufacturing Consent -- are extremely helpful to understanding our current world. Even if the examples are out-dated, you can see the same things play out today as they did in the 80's. I would recommend them even if you don't align personally with his politics.
At my company, we were migrating all our apps to a kubernetes + istio platform over the past couple of months and my advice is this - don't use a service mesh unless you really, really need to.
We initially choose istio because it seemed to satisfy all our requirements and more - mTLS, sidecar authz, etc - but configuring it turned out to be a huge pain. Things like crafting a non-superadmin pod security policy for it, trying to upgrade versions via helm, and trying to debug authz policies took up a non-trivial amount of time. In the end, we got everything working but I probably wouldn't recommend it again.
It's funny that I was at kubecon last week and there was a start up whose value prop was hassle-free istio and the linkerd people stressed that they were less complex than istio.
Has it always felt this way? I've been reading a lot of Chomsky lately and it seems at least for a few decades in the later 1900's workers had more power in the workplace.