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Re: That Time I Joined Twilio :: Jeff Lindsay, Open source hacker

Jeff Lindsay — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:58:59 -0000

Comprehensivism is an interesting idea. Thanks for the article.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:17:29 -0000

I'll try to do something visual. Thanks!

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:18:36 -0000

Best way to describe it is simply a collection of modern, developer oriented systems tools. Like modern GNU project but with a design philosophy instead of licensing philosophy.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:38:40 -0000

Definitely. Bret Victor is great. Anyway, if you get on that mailing list you can be sure to get updated when there's more details.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:26:48 -0000

Thanks. A bunch of people have mentioned this to me today and a few mentioned they're probably focusing on AI. Also they consulted with Alan Kay which is great. I think the biggest benefit of this is long term. Hopefully others will see the value in it and try similar programs.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:55:04 -0000

Wow, thanks for saying that. :)

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:41:49 -0000

Yeah, I just don't know what to do with this information yet or if it is even an opportunity in this case.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 22:58:44 -0000

Your projects are cooler than mine though.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 21:16:26 -0000

Heh, well my website photo looks quite a bit different. So it was a joke about that. Also this video was made as one of my video updates which originally assumed people knew what I looked like.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:05:09 -0000

Hey Tony. Yeah, you totally get it. Hopefully what we learn in this process can be replicated and expanded to open source in general. A lot of people are talking about new models and helping define similar problems right now. But I think it takes a couple of specific working examples before the general workable solution can be found.

Re: The Next 10 Years: Megalith

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:56:22 -0000

Thanks, Lukas. Also I've modified the post to better set expectations about defining Megalith. You're definitely on the right path, though!

Re: DockerCon 2015 happened.

Jeff Lindsay — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:02:21 -0000

Good idea! And Systems Live, well, Timothy just had a kid, but we're talking about getting it started again.

Re: What have we been doing for 40 years?

Jeff Lindsay — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:28:42 -0000

Yep. You're really getting at the ideas behind systems thinking, which I think is an important complement to software engineering.

Re: What have we been doing for 40 years?

Jeff Lindsay — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:36:41 -0000

Good point. I think a lot of science and technology goes through this at various scales. I think of these two cases as "it looks like we've been on the same path for a while, why aren't we trying completely new paths?" My guess is that it *is* cyclical but at a scale that makes it less obvious. And the cycle is likely similar to the creative process for an individual. Here is a great take on that:
http://www.lostgarden.com/2...

In short, we ideate a new framework, we collectively "brainstorm" and do lots of unintentional experimentation within that framework, then best practices emerge and we "cull" our practices around those, then eventually a new framework is ideated based on lessons from the previous cycle.

Re: What have we been doing for 40 years?

Jeff Lindsay — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:26:29 -0000

Yes! I think your last point captures it well.

Re: What have we been doing for 40 years?

Jeff Lindsay — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:24:08 -0000

Definitely. Again, subtle difference between innovation and invention. Certainly not stopped innovating. If anything, we innovate more than ever. Invention, though ... I mean obviously there are people inventing. Probably more than ever as well. But somehow, and this is a little specific to systems software and infrastructure, there *seems* to be much less inventing. And there's plenty of reasons for that, sure. I'd just like us to challenge those reasons and/or try harder. :)

Re: Deis Breathes New Life into Dokku

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:17:56 -0000

There's probably enough divergence it might be hard to directly merge them, especially all at once. And even harder because it will diverge even more as the project architecture is refactored. Are there specific features/changes that you're interested in merging? Definitely make an issue for it at least.

Re: Consul Service Discovery with Docker

Jeff Lindsay — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:52:14 -0000

My next post should help clear that up.

Re: Eight Docker Development Patterns

Jeff Lindsay — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:52:07 -0000

Huh, great post.

Re: Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:01:52 -0000

It depends on a lot of things and gets pretty specific to your set up. One way to think of it is to have curl actually hit a web service that runs your headless browser. But there's lot of other options. I don't have a great easy answer!

Re: Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:21:02 -0000

There are endless combinations, and especially with my work that's intentional. We use CoreOS and Fleet for now, which means we're using etcd *and* Consul. Kubernetes is one option for higher level scheduling and it will be a popular one, but I don't like it because I have something else in mind. There's also Mesos. Neither are particularly friendly to work with. Project Atomic is a whole different story. Unfortunately, I can't do your homework for you. :)

Re: Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:19:08 -0000

That's closer to what's covered in the next post. :)

Re: Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Jeff Lindsay — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:17:32 -0000

That sounds like an interesting idea to explore.

Re: Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Jeff Lindsay — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:28:38 -0000

No, Registrator is designed to talk to the Consul agent on the same host. All hosts run their agent for Consul and Registrator and connect via Consul.

Re: Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Jeff Lindsay — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:32:51 -0000

Yeah, actually you've been able to do that since Consul 0.3 and earlier via the HTTP API, which is the intended interface for my container as an "appliance". I don't run client agents to interact with Consul, it's always via the API.