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Nice new workflow system built on Kubernetes and Docker
(tags: k8s kubernetes docker containers workflow pipelines architecture batch nightly-jobs ops)
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interesting, a synchronization daemon from Databricks which they use to synch up dev repos with a remote “devbox” in EC2 for heavyweight compilation
(tags: remote-compiles compiling devbox databricks coding tools dev ec2)
The Woolsey fire started at the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory
‘The speculative and non-credible have now happened. A fire burned through most of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a site contaminated with radioactivity and toxic chemicals allowed by decades of shoddy environmental controls.’ This site is legendary as a place where dangerous, toxic and radioactive chemicals were experimented with – indeed it was where the 1959 sodium reactor partial meltdown occurred. I wouldn’t want to have been downwind of this fire…
(tags: health santa-susana-field-laboratory nuclear fast-breeders atomic-energy meltdowns history toxic-waste california woolsey-fire wildfires)