I’m looking for a versatile position where I get to wear many hats. I would love to improve companies processes, good a new product or/and work on a mobile app or do full stack or even DevOps work. I’d also love to mentor new engineers/interns.
I’m also interested to tech lead or managing positions that do some IC work as needed.
And here I am planning on replacing Jenkins with GitLab CI.. do you really think Jenkins is better? Do you have any examples or thoughts you can share?
Really the most egregious thing: Manual job runs. They're a first-class citizen in Jenkins, where it lets you make a rudimentary UI by having several types for each variable (e.g. a selectbox). In GitLab the manual run just gives you a list of defined variables and a small text input next to each.
Then there's dependencies between jobs which has gotten better lately but again it seems less developed compared to Jenkins. I also managed to kill the web UI with some of my pipelines when using dependent jobs because the javascript fails somewhere deep when trying to visualise the pipeline and the page just stays blank.
Honestly it really depends on what you're doing. If you're mostly replacing automated builds and tests triggered by git changes then GitLab works just fine.
We did a talk on it, happy to answer any questions. It’s definitely worth it.
A lot of our Jenkins issues came down to “we are not very good at managing Jenkins”, but even if we where the massive jump in productivity, flexibility and team independence we saw after rolling it out makes me believe it’s just better.
Your plan is solid (source: building ci stuff for >10 years). I wouldn't really suggest much else, although argo is getting pretty good if you're deploying to k8s, I'd still keep gitlab around for creating your images.
In Europe a lot of products have to include 2 years warranty by default, which makes Apple Care a lot less attractive. You're basically paying the same price for just one more year instead of two.
Not every EU country has such a law. In the UK 1-year long warranties are standard, but some other states mandate 2 years on all electronic devices.
Unless of course you are talking about the EU-wide consumer protection rights which apply for 2-6 years after purchase, but which people very mistakenly call a guarantee. The problem with this protection is that it protects you only against manufacturing defects. And anything that happens after the initial 6 months is up to you to prove that it existed at the time of purchase. So no, if your MacBook suddenly dies 23 months after purchase, apple doesn't have to repair it, unless you can demonstrate to them that it died because of a manufacturing defect. In comparison, apple care would get your laptop replaced under the same circumstance.
We have CRA 2015 here in UK. 6 years on everything. Apple ask me what I want to claim under when I take my stuff in there. I only need AppleCare for when I break something :)
2 years for people, 1 year for businesses. That includes self employed people if they want to enter it as an expense in the accounting books (I'm not sure about the terms in English, I hope you understand what I mean.)
But I still receive spam mail in my (physical) mailbox. I imagine they're not doing that for free either.
I agree with you though, it would probably still (drastically) reduce the amount of spam we have to deal with and we might still get some very specific targeted spam
Wow... in Switzerland people get paid monthly and I think most of them are not in financial stress. But then having loans and credit cards aren’t as popular either...
is there a correlation between the salary payout frequency and financial stress?
I wonder if the cause of financial stress is the credit/loan system.
I think there is a cultural difference, which - in the US - encourages people to get loans and buy things they cannot necessarily afford.
While elsewhere you’d save up and then buy the thing of desire.
*this is a little too general and doesn’t apply to everything (e.g. houses etc)
Interesting. I don’t think it’s the payout frequency though that causes this problem, nor could solve it.
Couldn’t it be that people are just having a tendency to not save money, due to various reasons (low salary, not seeing the need to save money, buying irresponsibly, ...)
Paying them daily doesn’t allow them to buy more though. The salary overall (at the end of the month) doesn’t change. I guess you could buy more expensive stuff more spontaneously, which probably would make the problem worse.
I’m looking for a versatile position where I get to wear many hats. I would love to improve companies processes, good a new product or/and work on a mobile app or do full stack or even DevOps work. I’d also love to mentor new engineers/interns.
I’m also interested to tech lead or managing positions that do some IC work as needed.
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