A short an less technical post about how we handled the Cloudflare outage with the use of infrastructure as code even when the Cloudflare dashboard (UI) was down.

  Location: Porto, Portugal
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes (inclusive to the US)
  Technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Rancher, GitOps, Fleet, Flux2, CentOS, CoreOS, Ubuntu, Arch, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS, S3, Route 53, OVH, Scaleway, nginx, Prometheus, Thanos, Jaeger, Grafana, Datadog, SigNoz, Azure, Blob Storage, HAProxy, Docker, CI/CD, JavaScript, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Elixir, Java, SQL, MongoDB, GNU/Linux, BSD.
  Résumé/CV: https://miguelcarneiro.pt/cv.pdf and https://miguelcarneiro.pt/ (a bit outdated, will update)
  Email: mig4ng@gmail.com or mail@miguelcarneiro.pt

Been handling all the infrastructure for a company from Luxembourg, all by myself. Including the CI/CD, patching, hardening, maintenance, disaster recovery plans and incident management.

I am looking for something new and different. I am willing to take a step back, and get my hands again on software development, or technical sales, customer support, or even developer advocate. Take into consideration I will be learning and improvising/adapting. I learn fast! The reason I am considering something different is to learn about different business models and key business aspects to see how I can improve it with automation and AI.

Full time or part time, with preference on full time. I have experience as a Contractor too.

If you need someone for infrastructure, I am battle tested in this regard and eager to take on a new challenge. Be it for cost reduction, scaling, building from zero. You name it.

Awesome! I did it via the Terraform provider, but for anyone else without access to the dashboard this is great. Thank you!

Cloudflare Dashboard/Clicky clicky UI is down. I really appreciate that their API is still working. Small change in our Terraform configuration and now I can go lunch in peace knowing our clients at skeeled can keep working if wanted:

resource "cloudflare_dns_record"

- proxied = true

+ proxied = false

In terms of probability looking at the history, it is correct. It's mostly me messing up with the web server.

That is really good to be honest!

I have Cloudflare running in production and it is affecting us right now. But at least I know what is going on and how I can mitigate (e.g. disable Cloudflare as a proxy if it keeps affecting our services at skeeled).

I have been sharing house with a roommate for years now (in Portugal), and I prefer it to living alone. Even with a girlfriend, I highly prefer to live in a house with more people.

I come from a "big" family, and I am used to movement where I live. And living alone or just with one person, makes my energy go down.

Now that I plan on moving to Paraguay, I am looking for co-living options or someone to rent place with. Different people have different preferred ways of living.

For me, it's cheaper, and I am happier, when I share place with other people. Also, you get to learn from others, have people to talk with, at the expense of a bit of privacy. But depending on the roommates you choose the privacy thing is usually not an issue.

Living with roommates is not the same thing as an SRO. While both meet the strict definition of "living with roommates", one of these situations you get pick who you live with (or at least ideologically aligned), in the other you don't.

Two friends sharing a lovely home is not the same thing as twenty random crackheads living in a trap house.

This is hilarious! Make the accordion of selection always open please.

I use it for many side projects, and I am starting to use it for bigger ones too.

Should we submit personal projects and smaller side projects, or is this for fully fledged app only?

Also, should we add know open source applications such as Plausible[1]?

I am always happy to see Elixir and Erlang hit the front page.

[1] - https://github.com/plausible/analytics

Just personal opinion, I would get a lot of value out of having open source projects on there like plausible. I'm fact that might be the most useful thing personally

There are open source projects on the site, such as Oban and Absinthe. Is that what you’re looking for or did you mean something else?

Yes to all of the above. The goal is to share as much as possible what people are doing with Elixir.

Same here, using Elixir only for personal/hobby projects. Sadly, my customers when they hear about Elixir they get scared as hell. The "song" they love includes only JS, Java, C#, or Python.

Shameless self-plug related to this, my uBlock Origin Filters [1].

I want to add to this by saying I've been mainly using Firefox for more than a decade now, and I highly prefer it to Chrome, except for the Lighthouse feature to test page speed, accessibility and such.

And as the post says, it now allows for vertical tabs (without extensions) and you can even put vertical tabs on the right side. Or collapse it when you want to focus on what you are reading. Perfection.

The uBlock extra filters I use to avoid going down on doom scrolling feeds.

[1] - https://github.com/mig4ng/ublock-origin-filters