Fudge Sunday by Jay Cuthrell

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Smooth k8s Operator

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Source: chat.openai.com

Music: Sade - Smooth Operator (1984)

This week we take a look at growing interest in Kubernetes (k8s) Operators.

#185
February 5, 2023
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IDP Clearly Now

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Source: “developers using an internal developer platform” on stockimg.ai

Music: Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now (1972)

This week we take a look at the past, present, and future of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

#184
January 30, 2023
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Deploy Everything You Touch

Music: Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch ()

This week we take a look at

Getting Informed

First, I aimed ChatGPT at myself this week for a past issue of the newsletter on toolchains.

#183
January 23, 2023
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Cost Cause

Music: Beck - Lost Cause (2022) Yes, I gave into ChatGPT temptation.

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They see you come and they see you go 🎶

They know your secrets and you know theirs 🎶

#182
January 16, 2023
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Happy When It Toolchains

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Music: The Jesus And Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (1987)

This week we take a look at toolchains in platform engineering.

Getting Informed

#181
January 8, 2023
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Such Tweet Nothing

Music: Calvin Harris - Sweet Nothing ft. Florence Welch (2012)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at IndyWeb origins, ActivityPub, Fediverse, and other options outside of the Tweet place.

Emptied out by a single word 🎶

#180
January 1, 2023
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How Soon is Next Year?

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Music: The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (1985)

Getting Informed

This week is a look ahead to 2023 with predictions on the path to 2030. To frame my look ahead, consider my look ahead from 761 days ago 1 where I considered the future of the cloud in 2030.

#179
December 26, 2022
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Zettelkasten End of Year for 2022

This week we take a look at my Zettelkasten end of year favorites for 2022.

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First, if you are reading this update, I’d like to thank you for your patience as I explore new content formats. Also, this is a currently a free newsletter and I pay the fees1 that enable this newsletter to be delivered to your inbox — so, no worries if you want to click your unsubscribe link below. 🤓

Second, I have been approached by an advertiser. After gathering feedback from a few Fudge Sunday readers that use said advertiser with their own communities2, I may consider experimenting with a “Links From Our Sponsor” section next year. 🤔

#178
December 19, 2022
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Proxy Tear Us Apart

Music: INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (1988)

This week we look at the path from VPN1 to Beyondcorp-esque alternatives

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#177
December 11, 2022
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Fediverse Moving over the Face of the Waters

This is an early edition of Fudge Sunday where we we take a look at moving a newsletter from Substack to Buttondown and from Twitter to Mastodon.

Music: Moby - “God Moving over the Face of the Waters” (1995)

Getting Informed

Record scratch Freeze frame

#176
December 3, 2022
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Don't Worry 'Bout SRE

Music: Frank Sinatra - “Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me” (1966)

Getting Informed

This week our topic comes from Substack Chat. 🤔🙏🤓

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#175
November 28, 2022
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I Want To Thank You

Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous (1998)

Getting Informed

Writing this newsletter has involved several reboots. Some of my readers remember the fits and starts. Others joined in reading later and wondered how I manage to crank out a new post each week.

#174
November 20, 2022
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Twit Can Happen

Yes - “It Can Happen” (1983)

Getting Informed

This week take a look at the recent challenges for Twitter, content drift, link rot, and archivist considerations.

#173
November 13, 2022
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A Matter of Zero Trust

Billy Joel - “A Matter of Trust” (1986)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at Zero Trust, Zero Trust Model, Zero Trust Security Model, Zero Trust Reference Architecture, Zero Trust Network Access, and Zero Trust Network Architecture. So, if this seems like an elongated list now, you should have zero — ahem — trust the list will be the last of the variants.

#172
November 6, 2022
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Cadillac WebAssembly Line

Albert King - “Cadillac Assembly Line” (1980)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at WebAssembly (Wasm)1 and the implications of ubiquitous2 stack-based virtual machines. For example, even from a low end Linux or even Apple laptop running MacOS you can open Safari browser and run a late 1990s classic game like Diablo3 🤯.

#171
October 31, 2022
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Underneath The CNCF Tech Radar

Underworld - Underneath The Radar (1988)

Getting Informed

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was formed in 2015 by 22 supporting member companies.1 At launch, the mission statement was “to create and drive the adoption of a new computing paradigm that is optimized for modern distributed systems environments“. 2

#170
October 23, 2022
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Please Please OTel Me Now

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know? (1982)

Getting Informed

If you are new to OpenTelemetry — or “Otel” for short — that’s understandable. You might have come across application performance management companies, tools, techniques, or even projects like OpenTracing1 or OpenCensus2 that predate Otel.

#169
October 17, 2022
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Platform Engineering Blues

Pavement - Platform Blues (1999)

Getting Informed

If you need a refresher on Platform Engineering, read this post from last month:

#168
October 9, 2022
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Precision Time Protocol That You Love

Tom Waits - "Time" (1985)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at Network Time Protocol (NTP), Precision Time Protocol (PTP), Time Appliance Project (TAP), and Time as a Service (TaaS). We’re going to stay in the realm of time much larger than the ~11.8 inch distance that light can travel in a ns (aka a Grace Hopper “nanosecond”) but we will stay within the realm of the ~984 foot distance that light can travel in a µs (aka a Grace Hopper “microsecond”).

#167
October 2, 2022
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Build a Cloud Platform Foundation

Spandau Ballet - Foundation (1983)

Getting Informed

This post will cover topics that matter to developers and organizations that seek to attract developers. Those topics will range from legacy terminology such as DevOps, newer terminology like “platform engineering” or developer experience (DevX/DevEx), and the importance of a cloud platform foundation that provides landing zones that are aligned the goals of a developer community.

#166
September 25, 2022
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Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

Getting Informed

A few months ago, I decided to buy YouTube Premium and I have been mashing that Subscribe button ever since. This week I am sharing some of what I found worthy of an hour or two of attention each week.

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#165
September 19, 2022
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SoC It To Me

Getting Informed

Let’s imagine for a moment that SoC1 is expressed as a SoC2 that acts as a functional SoC3 and possibly as a virtual SoC4 at hyperscale. But first, some definitions are in order because acronyms can be confusing without proper context.

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#164
September 11, 2022
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Artemis, Radiation Hardening, and IPFS

Getting Informed

As I was thinking about the topic for this newsletter post, NASA’s Artemis 1 launch got pushed back a bit. So, that provides more opportunity to focus on radiation hardening and IPFS.

#163
September 4, 2022
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You Get A Line and I'll Get A Poll Result

The Crawdad Song - Foggy Mountain Boys (1962)

Getting Informed

#162
August 29, 2022
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A Cold Shot and Chaser

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Cold Shot (1984)


#161
August 22, 2022
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Feeling So Really Simple Syndication

Moby - 'Feeling So Real' (1995)

Before we get into the origin, status, and future of RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom it’s time for a quick work update. Oddly enough, there is a connection.

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#160
August 15, 2022
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Union of the Cloud

Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake (1983)

Getting Informed

This week we take another look at multicloud (or multi-cloud if you prefer) but this time across three dimensions: Paths, Patterns, and Problems. So, as you might expect, there will be links to the past and present with a positive outlook on the future.

#159
August 7, 2022
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When We Was Chip Fab Focused

George Harrison - When We Was Fab (1987)


We’ll get to the whim based infrastructure in a moment…

#158
July 31, 2022
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Get It All While You Can

Tesla - Ez Come Ez Go (1986)


This week I wanted to thank readers for all the feedback and sharing. Being able to maintain my publishing streak for over a year has been incredibly rewarding.

#157
July 25, 2022
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Busy Child

The Crystal Method - Busy Child (1997)

Getting Informed

Long time blog readers might recall my blog post from 2014 near the meme peak of STEM where I argued the need for ESTEEM is STEM plus Ethics plus Empathy. Then a few years later, my blog was appended in 2017 with a National Public Radio interview of an industry leader involved in low code no code platforms.1

#156
July 17, 2022
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Ready To Grow

Republica - Ready to Go (1997)


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#155
July 10, 2022
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SuperCloudbusting

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (1985) and may the samples live on for years to come.1


Getting Informed

#154
July 3, 2022
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Fudge Sunday Test 4

Photo by Sebastian Pociecha on Unsplash

Things to work on….

  • how to describe links vs footnotes

  • tune up the desibilizing

  • work on background noise

  • consider third-party processing, descript, etc.

#153
July 3, 2022
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Make IIoT Easy On Yourself

Dionne Warwick - “Make It Easy On Yourself” (1973)


Getting Informed

#152
June 26, 2022
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Fudge Sunday Test 3

person using computer keyboard near green circuit board

Things to work on….

  • filler words and phrases

  • pop filter

  • drink water (lip smacking)

  • clock control per paragraph

  • what does the format add over ability for users

    to playback with Substack

#151
June 26, 2022
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Me and My POSSE

Note: Thank you readers for the great migration feedback and helpful suggestions. I’m happy this newsletter continues to provide so many of you with utility.

Rivers Cuomo - Me and My Posse (2020)

Getting Informed

#150
June 19, 2022
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Reading Fudge Sunday Test 2

Photo by Voxogos on Unsplash

This episode uses my Shure SM57 + PreSonus Studio 24c and GarageBand and upload the rendered audio file to the podcast publishing page on Substack.

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#149
June 19, 2022
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Around the Bend

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around The Bend (2009)

Note: This issue marks a successful migration from Revue (Twitter) to Substack.


#148
June 12, 2022
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Reading Fudge Sunday Test 1

I’m reading my latest issue of Fudge Sunday and using the microphone array from my MacBook Air to publish directly via in browser podcast recording on Substack.

Fudge Sunday
Around the Bend
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Next week…

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#147
June 12, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Moving Out

Start the week more informed

This week we take a look at take out capabilities of this newsletter.

Note: (2nd repeat) After a solid year using Revue for this newsletter, new formats will arrive in the coming weeks (and months) from a new provider after we migrate everything over.

#146
June 5, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Ramble On

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This week is a quick look a back at the “great resignation”.

Note: After a solid year using Revue for this newsletter, new formats will arrive in the coming weeks (and months) from a new provider after we migrate everything over.

#145
May 29, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Follow the Lyrical Leadership Listicles

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This week we take a look at lengthening lyrical leadership listicles.

#144
May 23, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Singularity and Super Massive Black Holes

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This week we take a look at the word singularity which may finally be coming back home to super massive black holes.

#143
May 16, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Twitter Travel Algorithmic Oddities

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This week we look at IP targeting and geofencing while traveling.

#142
May 8, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Just Can't Get Enough

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This week we examine reading lists from 2019-2022.

#141
May 1, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - FinOps Erase and Rewind

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This week we look at FinOps and Swedish rock band lyrics

#140
April 24, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Come Together

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This week we take a look at mergers and acquisitions with FinOps in mind.

#139
April 17, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - The Turning

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This week lists a few times my guesses were accurate (or got close).

#138
April 10, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Summertime Pastness

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Enjoy a short summer reading list from 1978-2020 to consider our future.

#137
April 3, 2022
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Fudge Sunday - Needle in a Fullstack

Start the week more informed

This week we take a closer look at DevSec, SCA, xAST, RASP, DevSecOps, FinOps, and code search.

#136
March 27, 2022
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