ramblingsteve

ramblingsteve , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to programming in Trying to understand how project isolation works in a SAAS platforms.

It’s very complex with hyper visors and virtualization technology. I don’t fully understand it myself in terms of how resources are allocated across something like aws or azure, but take a look at openshift vs openstack maybe. Openshift is for deploying containers and openstack is virtual machines. Openshift is kubernetes with some customizations for enterprise. Openstack is same for vm’s.

Instances are virtual machines which tend to host an operating system, and a container is lighter and only hosts an application where the code and dependencies are isolated from the underlying operating system it runs on. k8 is kubernetes, which is container orchestration. I think of virtual machines for jobs that scale vertically, while containers are suited to jobs that scale horizontally. But this isn’t necessarily true as kubernetes is starting to get slurm functionality using tools like sunk.

For integrating these things it depends on the application. You can run services in either by exposing ports and interact through API end points that point at them, eg for frontend web app serving data from a database hosted on a server or a container via fastapi. But I’m no dev ops engineer and the field is very complicated. There are many discussions around building micro services (containers) vs monolith (vm). Many decisions depend on the project. Hopefully some actual dev ops engineers will chime in and correct all of the above! xD

ramblingsteve , 2 months ago to retrogaming in Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

They’re not hostile to new players, but there are a lot of veterans. UT2k4 is probably going to be easier than ut99 where the pace is a lot faster.

ramblingsteve , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to retrogaming in Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

You know you’re old when games you still play quite regularly turn up in retro reviews! The community master server is still pretty well populated, as are UT '99 servers. These games are still the pinnacle of their genre. No micro transactions, no DRM, no pay to win. Just you, your shock rifle, and as much amphetamine as your nerve endings will take. As the reviewer says, the level design and game mechanics are legendary at this point, and players of any ability can quickly get into a flow state that modern games can only dream of. These are fine wines in a world of cheap lager. New gamers should drink deep from the pc games of the 2000’s.

ramblingsteve , 3 months ago to linux in Okay guys, here's your chance! I am in possession of a 15 year old laptop. What Linux OS should I put in it?

Void Linux. There’s an xfce live image.

ramblingsteve , 8 months ago to retrogaming in If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be?

Homeworld

ramblingsteve , 9 months ago to programming in Why use VIM/Nano/Emacs over VS Code?

Lapce is an interesting alternative to vs code too: lapce.dev

For me, vim is nice to use because it’s ubiquitous across any system I log into. Any server will have vi at the least. It’s also light and can load a file instantly on any hardware, reducing dependency to zero. Once you have a comfortable config, you’re done for the rest of your life. Although, in reality vim config is a lifestyle and not a choice ;)

ramblingsteve , 10 months ago to retrogaming in The sanbox and survival games before minecraft

Hunter was an early sandbox game on the Amiga and was quite good back in the day. Mercenary series too. Daggerfall was/is a huge sandbox rpg. Minecraft was the first to capture the lego style creativity though. Dwarf fortress is probably the closest to Minecraft.

ramblingsteve , 11 months ago to retrogaming in Altered Beast Franchise Reportedly Being Revived By Sega

With lashings and lashings of downloadable content and nft’s, all wrapped up in sweet pay to win :)

ramblingsteve , 11 months ago to retrogaming in ‘It’s fun to cook up the stupidest idea’: the people competing to make the worst computer games possible

I bet they struggle to compete with Electronic Arts these days! ;p

ramblingsteve , 1 year ago to retrogaming in Favorite retrogaming Youtube channels?

ChinnyVision has some nice reviews.

ramblingsteve , 1 year ago to retrogaming in Does anyone remember the Neo-Geo?

I remember them from magazines in the 90's but they were totally urban legend. Never seen one in real life but it's been good to experience them emulated. Wind jammers, metal slug, king of fighters, last blade, so many classics. It's a shame it never went mainstream.