I live almost exactly on the "Aldi Äquator" (Aldi equator - this is a real thing), near to where the Albrecht brothers lived. People here go purposefully to Aldi South instead of Aldi North even if they happen to live just north of the equator. The whole shopping experience is much worse.
Honestly, I prefer going to Aldi Nord. It's a cleaner, more focused shopping experience, while Aldi Süd and Lidl tends to have too much distracting fluff.
Fair enough. I "go" shopping because of all the interesting and distracting stuff. If I want a clean / focused shopping experience I order from home, even if it's a little bit more expensive.
Working remote showed me how much I value direct interaction with people. For me, and I spoke to a lot of people for whom it's the same, the sweet spot is a hybrid model. Three days remote, two days on-site. Sometimes the other way round, depends on the tasks for the week.
If I need to do 100% remote, because I may have a light cold and don't want to spread it, I feel miserable after two weeks. That being said, I also will never work 100% on-site again, only if I can walk to work, which given my location, will not happen in the near future.
> If I need to do 100% remote, because I may have a light cold and don't want to spread it, I feel miserable after two weeks.
I will say - moving from fully onsite to fully remote was a bit of a shock for me, and initially I felt the same. Overtime I replaced the in office "social" time with out of the office social time (going rock climbing with friends, joining a sports league, etc).
I'm completely opposite, so much energy wasted dealing with people. Just give me the requirements, only contact me for technical reasons please. I'm not a social animal, I work to collect my salary to pay bills, full stop. Less contacts means better work quality because I'm not wasting my energy somewhere else.
I don't know about productivity but the quality of my work is better, and I am a much more sociable person when I am happy and awake than when I am draggy my ass, still sleepy to an office.
We also just adopted Tailscale for our org and I can answer that one:
SSO for Auth: before we had to go through the key exchange process for every employee and then manually update the Gateways wg conf. Now it’s just: login here with your work account and you’re done.
Authorization config: I like the ACL abstractions on top of Wireguard. It’s a part is completely missing and building it yourself would be a nightmare. I also don’t want to manage iptables for every device.
Did they? Do you have an example at hand? We ran into "weird" issues a lot of times with AWS services just to discover afterwards that almost all of them were covered by their documentation.
It was totally our fault and these were also no "hidden" docs.
Great, thanks for the input!
Do you mind sharing how many eng. are in your company? We’re trying to get a better sense of what tools are used per r&d size so we’d be able to create solutions that fit the needs of each :)
The guys at Pulumi must be having a field day right now. It's exactly how you describe it for us. We're long overdue with an upgrade of our Terraform config from pre v1.0. We have to most likely re-write a big part of our HCL code, so why not try a competitor?
With Vault however that's another story, I've yet to find another secrets management system that has a tight integration with Kubernetes, AWS and supports providers for things like Postgresql to have ephemeral database credentials.
That looks pretty nice but I guess the HW required or the time you have to wait to iterate on these things (if you don't use external services) is quite high. Is there an estimation / idea when a "normal" person can play around with these things with a lot of operational or capital investment?
