For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated?
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SHOW NOTES:
- AWS increased the price of longer-running EKS clusters by 6x
- Broadcom changes VMware licensing from perpetual to subscription
- Broadcom offers security patches to perpetual license customers
- Increasing the Kubernetes support window to 1 year
- Discovering the XZ backdoor (Oxide and Friends, podcast)
IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?
- Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)
- The costs of maintenance are real and opportunity
- Maintenance often goes unappreciated and unseen
- Naming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos Engineering
TECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCE
- Should we encourage a lack of maintenance vs. innovation as a priority?
- Should we encourage active maintenance with lower hard costs?
- Is there a way to put respect on maintenance? (e.g. OSS maintainers)
- Do we undervalue maintenance (e.g. Backup/Recovery, DisasterRecovery, etc.)?
- What maintenance best practices do you use? What are the good and bad of them?
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