How do you deal with the few minutes of downtime when you do kernel/OS/software upgrades?

I’m pretty sure for most systems that does not matter in the slightest.

Depending on the deployment and any SLAs, I either don't worry about it (just do a late night rollout when nobody is on the system) or rely on my deployment architecture's sibling checks (I can see when a given machine is still versioning and requeue subsequent rollouts to other machines).

How is this an issue in a world where load balancers exist? I was part of a Unicorn that ran prod on 8 boxes and literally never had customer facing outages due to infrastructure updates.

You put nginx or Haproxy in front of the hosts, drop the one that needs maint from the pool, and re-add once it’s ready.

You spin up a second host and load balance

How does AMC stay in business after all these years?

What would you buy if you were Apple and there were post-bubble/fire-sale prices on equipment and/or companies?

What did you think of G+? I never understood it, but what would you have done now differently than Google with G+ (using your hindsight and battle scars)?

What type of product or service were they selling?

A calendar for cutting your hair according to the phases of the moon.

Sounds like a tough business. The profit margins must have been razor thin.

Jokes aside, the guy made an impressive amount of money with this.

I should have charged him a percentage. Even if I had charged 0.5%, I would have made more money.

What was the home country of the acquiring company? UAE? Argentina?

MEGA is now headquartered in Hungary...who until very recently was run by someone very much aligned with the far right movement.

MEGA was founded by Kim Dotcom, who currently lives in New Zealand

Did he come from an old-money wealthy family? How did he find the time and money to be an unofficial cultural archivist?

He just really, really, really committed himself.

“I was using, at times, pretty lackluster equipment, simply because I had no money to buy anything better,” he said. Later, he moved on to digital audio tape, or DAT, and, as technology progressed, to solid-state digital recorders."

Which brands do you usually recommend for desktop/laptop related accessories?

It's product specific rather than brand specific, I suggest looking around on various subreddits like r/MouseReview or r/mechanicalkeyboards for example.

What are some novel processes or technologies you see becoming more important in the next 5-10 years?

What is the most stressful part of your job? Crazy customers or CEOs?

I would say customers, but have you met the guy or read his shenanigans on the new or grapevine? Jesus f’ing Christ what a “peach”..

please explain for the non-Flarers or whatever?

A more mainstream group of situations: https://share.google/aimode/Y1PvDiPSLkcZxC00o

plus all the times he has been a crybaby and demanding special treatment when it comes to flying and everything related to his private jet for some reason.

He's not unique and probably not the Antichrist, just in the group of turbo-assholes. This post was made in the context of this chain.

hmm, I was expecting something more interesting.

I'm aware of him flipping back n forth on hosting controversial websites and such, but I've had the impression that the guy is quite chill.

haven't heard of anything regarding the private jet though