Dennis Bell
djbell.bsky.social
Dennis Bell
@djbell.bsky.social
Welcome
January 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I'm shocked, shocked I say!!

(Also, I'm not one to comment on a persons appearance, but these photos look like they're AI generated - kind of an "uncanny valley" rendering...)
January 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This is how you know Bond is fictional. In the real world, Bond villains win...
December 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Also, you can get a huge HP Gen 9 ProLiant server for under $2500 US these days on EBay , and that'll last you way longer than any cloud provider offering for the same price. Smaller ones are available for under $1500 and give you room to grow.
November 29, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Life's full of trade offs. Kubernetes trades off for complexity. In my day job, we helped large F500 companies migrate to Kubernetes, and they now spend more time maintaining it than working on the apps they want to run - hosting costs have dropped, but their engineering costs have skyrocketed.
November 29, 2024 at 8:54 PM
It's built on vms, so not really, but there are many options for taking a large bare metal system and vm-ifying it
November 29, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I'm running it on local hardware. I'm currently using VMware esxi and vcenter, but plan on transitioning to openstack or proxmox next year
November 29, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Open source cloud foundry is definitely a viable and pleasant alternative to Kubernetes...
November 29, 2024 at 8:16 PM
What, no choice of Brussel sprouts??
November 28, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Pedosky? Nah, we don't let in conservative clergy or MAGAts...
November 28, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Saw Perl in you bio. You may like to know that genesis is written in Perl and is open source.
November 25, 2024 at 5:38 PM
11 ;)
November 24, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Can confirm ;)
November 24, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Radio-carbon dating can only go back 60,000 years. It cannot be used to date fossils. They use uranium-235/238 or potassium-40 dating for things in the millions/billions year range, but most are dated by common strata identification.
November 24, 2024 at 7:44 AM
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly
November 21, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Or maybe you're so smart that you realize Kubernetes is a pain to install (and maintain). Have you considered open-source Cloud Foundry. It's free, and a pleasure to install and maintain using the genesis-community/genesis tooling on GitHub...
November 21, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I highly recommend using genesis-community/genesis on GitHub to make deployment and lifecycle management simple. Message me if you have any questions
November 21, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Have you tried open source Cloud Foundry? It's like Kubernetes, but will all the bells and whistles included. Deploying and maintaining it is super easy with the aid of the Genesis project for integrated secrets management and best practices kits for common needs (vault, minio, Prometheus, etc)
November 21, 2024 at 3:40 PM
This is why I continue to use open-source Cloud Foundry. In a day, I have everything I need to provide an ecosystem for 12-factor apps that just works, and continues to work through upgrades...
November 21, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Not to be a Debby Downer (apologies to you Debbys), but pigs can lie on their sides, and often do. From that vantage, pigs hey can see stars across the sky...
November 21, 2024 at 6:07 AM
More inspired by than parody
November 20, 2024 at 5:59 AM
I owe my career to RailsConf (specifically raising '07 and '08), where I met the future creator of RVM in '07, and landed a job at EnginYard in '08 on his insistence. Thanks a ton, Wayne)

Sad to see the end of an era, though I wish it was coming to a conclusion in Portland, Oregon...
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Well, education is liberating, and liberation is edifying...
November 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM