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More infrastructure doesn't fix using the wrong infrastructure
I work at AWS, and predictably we use a lot of AWS cloud services. In many cases, when an engineer looks for a computer platform, they’ll often go directly to AWS Lambda because “it’s Serverless” with the justification that it’s simple and the best option no matter what and not want to explore alternatives. The FaaS (Functions as a Service) compute style is great for a certain category of system problems–ones in which you don’t need strict control over how it executes.
Continue reading...Fixing an IP conflict with Docker and Delta in-flight wi-fi
Today, I took a flight and tried to use the in-flight Wi-Fi, but I was unable to login to the the network. Nothing loaded or opened. I poked around in ip route and found two different routes that conflicted created by the Docker daemon. Looking at the following route, there’s two routes: 172.19.0.0/23 and 172.19.0.0/16. These correspond to: 172.19.0.0 - 172.19.1.255 and 172.19.0.0 - 172.19.255.255.
Screen sharing on Wayland Ubuntu 24.04
I tried screen sharing in a video call on my Ubuntu 24.04 computer running the Snap Firefox install, but I could never get it to prompt to share a screen, thus it wouldn’t work. This post shows how I fixed that.
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