Ben Meier
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Ben Meier
@ben.bsky.meierhost.com
Principal Software Engineer - distributed systems, go, rust; he/him; Dad; Bristol 🇬🇧, 🇿🇦; Currently Platform Engineering and CNCF Score; previously VMM and FaaS data planes.

Blog: https://bensblog.meierhost.com
And many folks assume that when a cloud region/AZ is "down" it's a binary condition. Instead of the strange brown-out, half up half down state that usually emerges in reality.
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Yup, Score is an abstract container app specification that can be deployed on multiple runtimes like docker compose, k8s, ECS, Lambda, etc. And provides a spec for resolving resource dependencies
October 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Fair enough, just musing, I see your point that any subscription or hook like that would be a bad thing
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Maybe one could do a subscription model, and ship the new imaged appliance with updates along with a return envelope to ship back the old one, just swap over some persistent storage/USB stick. Something you can't exactly do with a 1U/server/expensive bit of kit.
September 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We used to have the craziest make file + jsonnet scripts to compile final dashboard json from individual components, so cursed.
August 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I found the recent one for Linear pretty good, only mentions "AI" once, and explains specifically what its going to do.
August 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
That's great 😅 loving the trex-in-spacesuit pose
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Apply grip tape to the seat as well for maximum speed.
July 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Oh wow, blast from the past
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM