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
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
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.
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
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
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
Fair enough, just musing, I see your point that any subscription or hook like that would be a bad thing
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
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.
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
We used to have the craziest make file + jsonnet scripts to compile final dashboard json from individual components, so cursed.
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
I found the recent one for Linear pretty good, only mentions "AI" once, and explains specifically what its going to do.
That's great 😅 loving the trex-in-spacesuit pose
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
That's great 😅 loving the trex-in-spacesuit pose
Apply grip tape to the seat as well for maximum speed.
July 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Apply grip tape to the seat as well for maximum speed.
Oh wow, blast from the past
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oh wow, blast from the past