Levi The Cloud Guy 🧡

I cancelled a streaming service, and set up a $10 monthly donation to Signal instead. Thanks for the reminder, @kelseyhightower.com

On the Duckbill Office Hours (duckbillgroup.com/officehours) and called the new Amazon Quick Suite thing "QuickSlap." It's the new Infinidash.

The room was packed, but it was also made to seat 8, so let's not oversell it. 🤣 I think I'm going to record a couple YT videos of the AWS and networking lessons I shared, just for posterity.

Excited for Levi McCormick’s session “AWS Networking At Scale!” This room is PACKED! #Minnebar19 @minnestar.org

AWS is really leaning into the ECS everywhere strategy. Now ECR runs in your on-prem bathrooms.

This must hit so hard if you’re stupid

This is how we hike when the temperature hurts our face. We found a (not so) secret path around Bunker Lake.

Last day of vacation. Did I do the things I set out to do? No. Do I feel rested? Somehow also no.

God damn you, @hankgreen.bsky.social. You brilliant bastard. I wasn't ready for it to end!

You know Bluesky has reached critical mass when you see the screenshots appear on other social apps.

We need new Christmas music. Retail has destroyed my ability to enjoy any of it.

On Sunday, we play games. Today was Clank! Catacombs. High amount of variability, but it's a fun time. Highly recommended deck builder.

I got an advent calendar game for the holiday season. Gotta find Santa before Christmas. Day 1 was a fun little puzzle. Excited for the rest.

Finally!!! 🙌 #serverless

Is this why some people prefer to work in an office? They can still "overhear" conversations while not being glued to a chat application all day. I'm starting to only check my chat apps at the top of the hour, and it frees up a lot of bandwidth. Gotta make sure docs are up to date, though. 🤣

I finally got my #EclipsePhase t-shirt! ADHD means giving yourself random surprises constantly. @bastlynn.bsky.social we did it!

Date night last night, we threw axes. It was a good time.

Having to remind sellers to not use Uline is a mark of time passing for me. This company has always supported right wing shit, never stop reminding people not to use them. There’s always new sellers who haven’t heard. Sharing how you make and sell is how we keep doing

The ideal plarform engineering team is roughly 2/3rds software oriented people with an understanding of operations, and 1/3rd operations people who can program Aka service tops and power bottoms

Nearly every company of significant AWS spend has a minimum commitment, so removing the instances won't directly impact revenue as much as you'd hope. They'll still get the bill at the end of the month.

Been working on a project for years now, and it's almost done. I'm super proud of using a Parallel branch in an AWS Step Function as a generic wrapper to catch all the failures in the states, and dump out into a cleanup function. Shout out to @brysontyrrell.com for the idea.

New profile pic.

Heading into the office for quarterly planning. I didn't realize it was 47 degrees outside. It's a chilly morning to be waiting for the bus. I have chosen poorly.

I used to do IT for a manufacturing company and every day, the maintenance guy would come into the office and say "Levi the IT Guy" in a sing-songy voice. Now, I only do Cloud/DevOps work, so I changed it to Cloud Guy. Very complicated.

A surprising side effect of the business @emilyfreeman.bsky.social and I run is that we get a bunch of companies coming to us asking for referrals on great DevRel people they can hire. I know of a few openings at the moment. if you are in DevRel and interested, could you reply to this thread?

Lots of discussion about Bluesky and how it doesn’t have the same feeling and content as other platforms. They’re not wrong. This place still doesn’t have a lot of prominent voices from different communities across the spectrum. But it is the one social platform I feel like less of a product.

This was a good move for 37Signals, but I hate how it's being held up as the proof that *everyone* is moving back to data centers. The cloud spend data just doesn't support that statement.

#TeamECS

I need to get in these Starter Packs, just need to figure out who to bribe.

I had a curated list on the other site of all the #ScreamingInTheCloud guests that @quinnypig.bsky.social interviewed. I can't wait for these opportunities on this site.

The Great Tech Skeetification of ‘24

Just a random appreciation for @lookitup.baby. I randomly saw them tweet about getting timer caps for medication. Such a huge quality of life improvement for a tiny investment, I don't know why I didn't have one before. Thanks, friend!

🗣️Hello … Tech friends? Are you here 🫡

Just unfollowed everyone on Xitter. Just waiting on my archive to become available before I probably delete the whole thing. This is my home now.

neato neato neato: go.bsky.app/RCerxDE

Is there a tech specific feed yet? Would love posts about cloud and DevOps.

So have we finally decided to all move over here? I need to start rebuilding my lists.

I need to copy the Coldwaters Law tweet before I send my account into the ether: "I've dubbed this "Coldwaters Law" after the great @lookitup.baby . Given enough published content, an expert in their field will always have their work weaponized against them by someone not realizing its origins."

Let's just keep this permanent.

I went outside today. Overrated. Not recommended.

The clips of Baldur's Gate 3 being shared are in direct violation of this rule.

Well, I didn't know I wanted something so badly in my life.

I wasn't prepared to be personally attacked this early in the morning.

So flat, you can watch your dog run away for three days. ND sure is something.

I'm dj while we're road tripping. Just got the highest compliment possible from my teen daughter: "Dad's mix is fire." That's it. I've peaked.

From @quinnypig.bsky.social LWIAWS: "At AWS scale, the question is really "how down is this service," rather than treating it as a binary pass/fail. Reporting on this stuff on a dashboard is a Hard Problem." Anyone seen good outage reporting in large-scale, multi-tenant systems?