Choose Boring Technology How to be old, for young people.

"Obvious" if you've been around a while, but still needs broader awareness:

> New tech typically has more known unknowns, and many more unknown unknowns

> software that’s been around longer tends to need less care and feeding than software that just came out

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Linkerd Forever | William Morgan | 18 comments The highest-impact announcement at Kubecon Atlanta last week had nothing to do with AI. It was the announcement that ingress-nginx was being deprecated. In one fell swoop, ten thousand K8s SREs learne...

> There is only one way to have good open source projects... pay the maintainers. And there is only one way to pay the maintainers: pay the companies that fund them.

#Open-Source #Funding #UseWhatWorks

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Build or Adopt: Stop Building Your Own Plumbing Once upon a time, I worked with Chris Sells and the software arm of DevelopMentor (trip down memory lane, huh). We built a developer tool and it was my first experience working on a product where developers were our primary customer. It left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Let's talk about it.

Every developer has faced the “buy vs. build” dilemma. Truth is, reinventing the wheel can cost way more than you think—both in dollars and lost focus. Adopt existing solutions where possible and spend your energy where it matters #UseWhatWorks