The personal thoughts of a principal software engineer @bbc. Used to work with TVs, now usernames and passwords. #ruby, #javascript, #elixir, and #aws. He/him
May 8, 2019 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
So I’ve spent this evening touring BT Dial House in Manchester. It’s a huge telephone exchange, and brings telephony and Internet access to Manchester. Wanna see some photos and nerd out with me? A thread ... #internet#telephony#infrastructure
This is just one of the marine diesel generators that live in the lowest basement. The site has its own dual redundant HV feed, and operate their own HV/LV transformer kit. They take ~600 litres of oil, and are regularly tested.
Mar 23, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I stood up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch this evening, to get a better understanding of the internals. You see, I’m building a new web service, and I’m thinking about deployment strategies. K8S was top of mind. Here’s some thoughts.
Firstly, it’s a pretty involved process, with a bunch of decision points at every turn. I was console and CLI prodding, but I’d want to script all this. I value infrastructure as code too. That’s another rabbit hole: CloudFormation vs Terraform vs CDK vs DIY.
