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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Bible. This book is so good–basically creating a field and defining a set of practices that needed a lot of definition. Helpful for everyone regardless of where they are on in their path of ensure prod is…

INGWAZ, The Rune of Peace and Harmony You may feel isolated on your spiritual journey, but there is a fire of inspiration within you, supporting you to go upward and onward. Feed that noble fire by perseverance, seek answers, but escape irrelevant questions. Live only in your present.

       Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,       He hath awaken’d from the dream of life;       ‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep       With phantoms an unprofitable strife,       And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife       Invulnerable nothings. We decay       Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief       Convulse us and consume…

We are not ‘everything,’ but neither are we ‘nothing.’ Spirituality is discovered in that space between paradox’s extremes, for there we confront our helplessness and powerlessness, our woundedness. In seeking to understand our limitations, we seek not only an easing of our pain but an understanding of what it means to hurt and what it…

We like lists because we don’t want to die.

      Nor let us weep that our delight is fled       Far from these carrion kites that scream below;       He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead;       Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now.       Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow       Back to the burning fountain whence it came,       A portion…

The man was wearing a name tag that said NABOKOV, like the novelist.

       Live thou, whose infamy is not thy fame!       Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me,       Thou noteless blot on a remember’d name!       But be thyself, and know thyself to be!       And ever at thy season be thou free       To spill the venom when thy fangs o’erflow;       Remorse and Self-contempt shall cling to thee;       Hot…