> You can manage and reason about ~2000+ servers without Kubernetes, even with a relatively small team, say about 100 - 150
Oh wow, so uh... I'm managing around 1000 nodes over 6 clusters, alone. There's others able to handle things when I'm not around or on leave and meticulously updated docs for them to do so but in general am the only one touching our infra.
I also do dev work the other half of the week for our company.
At one job I was the only IT person and we had ~250 plain boring VMs on some bare metal Linux/KVM hosts. No config management. No Kubernetes. I fixed that quickly. There was one other guy capable of taking a look at most of it.
I was also doing the software builds and client releases, client support, writing the documentation for the software, and fixing that software.
I suspect we would have had no problem scaling up with some better tooling. Imagine a team of 150? When people tell me things like that, it sounds more like the solution isn't much of a solution at all.
Managed k8s (GKE/EKS) or self admin k8s? If the former, no problem. If you're building your own clusters on raw cloud or bare metal compute I'm skeptical if doing it solo. Kudos either way!
Hehe, you lack skill in empire building. You know "leading a team of highly motivated team of 50+ devops engineers". The kind of talent that postpones patching until you are back from vacation. Or deploying config change that needs at least two rollbacks before finally going in.
That is actually very impressive :-) We have a small team to just handle the databases, but that's ~200 MariaDB and Oracle instances, and another to do networking.
How many different applications/services are you running?
In any case, absolutely amazing what one person can manage with modern infrastructure.
Can people please not listen to this terrible advice that gets repeated so oft, especially in Australian IT circles somehow by young naive folks.
You really need to talk to your accountant here.
It's probably under 25% in deduction at double the median wage, little bit over @ triple, and that's *only* if you are using the device entirely for work, as in it sits in an office and nowhere else, if you are using it personally you open yourself up to all sorts of drama if and when the ATO ever decides to audit you for making a $6k AUD claim for a computing device beyond what you normally to use to do your job.
My work is entirely from home. I happen to also be an ex lawyer, quite familiar with deduction rules and not altogether young. Can you explain why you think it's not 45% off? Ive deducted thousands in AI related work expenses over the years.
Even if what you are saying is correct, the discount is just lower. This is compared to no discount on compute/GPU rental unless your company purchases it.
I see Australia in the article and pardon my rampant scepticism, simply don't believe it.
Lo and behold:
>A six-month trial of driverless trucks on public Victorian roads has been put on hold just hours before it was meant to begin after the transport union labelled it “shambolic” and “sneaky”
> "the futures of our truck drivers are jeopardised due to this poorly executed plan."
> “It’s unacceptable that these trials are being pushed by corporations that continue to disadvantage our hard-working mums and dads that work day in, day out to carry Victorians.”
Now this sounds far more like the Australia I know.
Looks like the entire trial was scrapped due to union pressure and never resumed. Same reason we can't even have Driver-Only Operation on NSW trains, despite specifically purchasing DOO trains that operate safely worldwide.
You definitely need a source for that comment given that it only just happened.
Smartphones are neutral pieces of technology. It can create the next Einstein or radicalise the next terrorist, the 1's and 0's don't mind.
Why not ban them at universities also? Are these kids suddenly protected the moment they leave high school?
Like your opinion I have my own, and banning smartphones in Australian high schools will turn out to be overwhelmingly negative for outcomes. I predict it will be reversed and looked back upon as a failure.
Khan academy taught me more than dozens of different teachers. Kids are now blocked from accessing it for their entire time at school and when they would be most intruiged to learn.
Just like terrible having internet, Australians seem intent on being left behind in a hypercompetitive world.
"Our team screened 1,317 articles and reports as well as dissertations from masters and PhD students. We identified 22 studies that examined schools before and after phone bans."
"Our research found four studies that identified a slight improvement in academic achievement when phones were banned in schools. However, two of these studies found this improvement only applied to disadvantaged or low-achieving students."
"In a sign of just how little research there is on this topic, 12 of the studies we identified were done by masters and doctoral students. This means they are not peer-reviewed"
Do you really want to keep wasting people's times here because I'm more than happy to debate it with someone who actually cares.
Nothing in that article suggests it's of overwhelming benefit. I'm talking much bigger than teachers having an easier job too, education outcomes like this take decades to be seen.
I'm not sure why you're so aggressive. I didn't state any benefit, just that your timeframe was wrong and provided links indicating that. No mate, I'd say not correct.
I live in Portugal, and there is a robust debate around this topic. It's far from ridiculous, and nationality laws are in the process of changing as a component of this discussion.
Also, many countries are "tightening down" their golden visa programs or removing them entirely. I have a friend who works for a golden visa consultancy, and they're already in the process of pivoting because of so many changes.
> I live in Portugal, and there is a robust debate around this topic.
Assumed it was somewhere in that region because my European friends usually talk about it. Personally find it bizarre because the few thousand digital nomads are barely moving the needle compared to tourism or normal migration. It comes across as people getting very upset about a minor issue because they have rigid ideological views that prevent them from touching the main one. A convenient scapegoat but nothing will change in the slightest if the Portugese DN visa is scrapped.
You've created the easiest pathway to a EU passport and then wonder why the planet flocks there.
The simple solution here is to build enough housing to meet demand.
I agree with you. It's purely political. The country has shifted to the right because of rhetoric around immigrants being the reason for everyone's problems. I do not agree with it, but I'm seeing it every day, and it does suggest that DN may be less viable as time goes on.
I don't think it's ridiculous, you might even argue we're at "peak" digital nomad. There's definitely pushback building, here's an example from recently:
‘There’s an arrogance to the way they move around the city’: is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
I know the guardian can be very hand wringy, but digital nomads are going to get swept up in the general anti-migration narrative that most populaces are now feeling. Anti-mass-migration in most populations, anti-tourist in Venice, anti-nomad in Portugal.
Locals are feeling betrayed by their politicians and foreigners are an easy target to point at and say "why is this happening". The Lisbon example is especially egregious, with the digital nomads being taxed less than locals. Locals are subsidizing their lifestyles.
Same feelings towards non-nomadic Expats in The Netherlands - because of the "30% tax free for Expats".
Meanwhile the truth is that some 15-20 years ago - Dutch government introduced that "30% tax rule" as a cost saving measures.
Previously expats in The Netherlands would collect bills/receipts for expatriation related expenses (e.g. language classes, international school for kids, differences in cost of living/housing ...etc).
And processing those tax claims was so much bureaucracy that Dutch government realized just giving expats 30% of gross income tax free for 10 years (reduced to 8 and then 5 years) is both less money than actual expenses used to be, and much less paperwork/cost.
And let's not forget that (definitely for non-nomadic expats, though arguably also for digital nomads) country didn't need to pay their birth/growing up, education ...etc.
And (especially for digital nomads) might not need to cover the costs for their old age health, retirement and such.
> but digital nomads are going to get swept up in the general anti-migration narrative that most populaces are now feeling
Can you name one digital nomad visa that has been scrapped in the last year or two?
I can name a few dozen that have been implemented.
When I started in 2017 there was maybe 3 or 4 places you could move on Earth with a six figure USD salary as a remote worker, it was always a grey zone to go places on tourist visas but that's how people rolled and countries knew how good a deal it was for them compared to raising/educating/supporting locals so let it slide. There's over 70 legal valid options now for remote workers in 2025.
The easily proven evidence doesn't stack up with the narrative people and newspapers likes the Guardian are trying to push for clicks.
I personally couldn't care less if locals don't like me. My own countrymen are jealous about me having a good paying remote job too.
> Many of the bad things on the internet are a layer 8 issue and collective human behaviour isn't an easy problem to solve.
Sure, clever analogy. The internet barely facilitates many best practices for congregating on a communal basis, barring a user's self-sovereign strive to cultivate, recognize and then compensate for its failings with whatever sort of information, interactions and dealings one happens to seek.
20+ years ago, i just settled for lurking whatever boards popped out of the ether and playing EverQuest, RuneScape and Habbo Hotel, to soak in its novelty. Such persistent asymmetricity should never be lost.
It's also eating a significant amount of your compute and memory