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Why I am not posting about re:Invent

Oops, I should've announced this: folks, I am all alive and fine — I am just not posting thoughts about re:Invent for now! I appreciate all the slightly-panicked DMs y'all sent me and I am flattered that you were so concerned 😊 1/12 (thread to explain why I am not posting)

What is the first reason I am not posting about re:Invent? It's not my style. I hate "first look" posts — I consider them high-risk (I could be wrong) and low-value (everybody does that + I will have a deeper dive posted in December*). For me, it's not worth it 🤷 2/12

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Clarifications on "OpenTF is disconnected from reality"

Some clarifications, since it's clear I failed at properly communicating in the quoted thread 😓 TL;DR: - strong words are used to express strong feelings - nobody paid me to write that - I do know what I am talking about - I criticized OpenTF based on their public actions 1/8 twitter.com/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1696521808143683812

🤬 Strong words have a role I find spreading misinformation absolutely fucking disgusting and I will refer to it as such. I may even be nice and remove the f-word but I will not describe it as "bad" just to be nice. That would be fake, insincere, and inaccurate. 2/8

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OpenTF is disconnected from reality

OpenTF is disconnected from reality. They don't understand Terraform, they don't understand users, they don't understand the ecosystem, and they don't even understand who's at the table. Or that there is a table! Let me explain how dumb this whole thing is... 🧵 1/75 (i know)

TL;DR: OpenTF is a failure and you should not be taking it seriously. At all. This will be a very long thread. I know and I am sorry for that, but y'all really need to see the whole story to understand how utterly pathetic this whole drama is. 2/75

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Follow-up #2 to HashiCorp's license changes and ripple effects

😡Freakin' dumbass wannabe shitfluencers 💢 I just wanted to share how fast and strongly this spread at CxO levels and how intense the reaction were aaaaaand dumbasses took this and twisted it into "TERrAforM iS DeAD" and "OSS is gONe" 🤦 Let me clarify some things ... 🧵 1/32 twitter.com/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1690039537370824704

If you missed it, there was a follow-up to the original thread. TL;DR for that: the emotional reaction matters A LOT more than the facts. We're humans and we act as humans, for better or worse. In this case: businesses are scared of OSS now. 2/32 twitter.com/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1690114917297188864

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HashiCorp's license changes and ripple effects

The impact from this is way wider than initially thought — this is sending ripples across the whole tech sector! A thread that may or may not be a bit paranoid / anxiety-powered 🧵 1/22 twitter.com/HashiCorp/status/1689733106813562880

TL;DR: this was initially perceived as a supply chain attack. It's (debatably) not that, but the concerns it created will persist. I think we'll see some interesting consolidation and some fundamental architectural changes in the next cycle. I could be wrong tho 🤷 2/22

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Private beta and maybe the future: System Initiative

Terraform is a car and CloudFormation is a delivery van. After a while, techies got _passionate_ and came out with CDK and Pulumi which are pretty much a Hummer H2. @thesysteminit: leave the US car-focused hellscape, move Amsterdam/Oulu, and get an electric bike. Pure bliss! twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1671536868582912001

Of course, the "DevOps-are-real-devs-I-swear-here-is-another-100k-of-Golang-to-prove-it" infrastructure engineers will be very reluctant and dismissive of this. I get it, trauma is hard to get over *hugs* That said, trust me and try SI. It's amazing! twitter.com/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1670719831186845701

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Reaction to AWS releasing something

AWS: releases a 4-seat SUV. Tech thought leaders: 1️⃣ "Dammit AWS, this is too big for the 1 me to use to cross the street. Followers, this is shit, do not use!" 2️⃣ "Dammit AWS, this does not have the 56 seats I need to transport people. Audience, this is shit, do not use!" 🤦

AWS: releases a fun convertible car, good mileage, $50k price, super-comfortable. Shitfluencers: dammit AWS, the trunk of this is so small. How can I carry 5 tons of fertilizer with this!?! Dear followers, this is a shit service, do not use. 🙄

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re:Invent 2022 recap

After watching 289 talks, I can now confidently share my re:Invent 2022 recap 🕵️‍♂️ Verdict: I am whelmed. Not underwhelmed or overwhelmed, just whelmed. Since there were a bunch of other "unboxing" recaps already, here's a thread with an ✨actionable✨ recap.

Beware #1: I am a dum-dum working with partial information here. There's a fair chance this thread will have at least a couple mistakes or bad takes. Always hedge your bets! Beware #2: I am only *only* talking about re:Invent launches. No pre-invent releases!

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Recipe for disaster: AWS' Deployment Pipeline Reference Architecture

Another "so close and yet so far away" release from AWS AWS needs to realize that: 1️⃣there's a world outside AWS 2️⃣not everybody has AWS' reliability requirements & profit margins This could've been awesome, but no, AWS keeps repeating the same mistakes pipelines.devops.aws.dev

To be fair, the Deployment Pipeline Reference Architecture (DPRA) gets *A LOT* of things right. Good job on that! Seriously 👏 I especially like all the examples! And there's a big need for something like this. I applaud AWS tackling this! But then problems starts to appear...

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