Atsuko
Ito
Working on infrastructure design of highly-avilable web applications and highly-integrated platforms. Developing DevOps/x-as-a-code/DevX-friendly environments for both software and configurations. Operating, tuning, auto-testing and troubleshooting such environments. cv
Atsuko ItoComputer interface for a typewriter. Inspired by * TTY interfaces for their line-by-line UX; * OberonOS, C64 BASIC for type anywhere command interfaces; and * [The Diamond Age] for pen and paper messaging interface. Papers
Atsuko ItoIn search for the ultimate, [lasting] writing tool. Activism
Atsuko ItoWho was I trying to impress? I'm no fighter at all right now. I'm barely holding myself from exploding over a little emotion. Why then am I trying to tell myself every time that I should fight? Activism
Atsuko ItoIn our digital age, we forgot how to forget. One could refer to the entire and precise chat history of what happened years ago, whether it’s pleasant or disturbing. Sometimes I was even thinking about a device that would record and index what’s happening around precisely, to bridge the gap between digital and real. Papers
Atsuko ItoThe week of Transgender Day of Visibility is going very mixed for me. Activism
Atsuko ItoI haven’t had much progress on Thursday and Friday. Yet, at the end of the day, I rather do less than be dead-tired. Activism
Atsuko ItoI feel that the only option I have now is a proper long-term medical solution. Sadly, it will take months, and I will look for counseling in meanwhile to cope with withdrawal. I might be lucky and receive an emergency or bridging prescription. Activism
Atsuko ItoThis all doesn’t look any better. In fact, I feel sad. Activism
Atsuko ItoIt’s happened on Monday the 23rd of March 2020. An online pharmacy that allowed me to order my HRT without prescription went out of business due to COVID-19. Activism
Atsuko ItoIt's not about configuration, and not about integration, so probably it's about hardware support. Papers
Atsuko ItoWell, it's complicated. I run bunch of outdated hardware, and it is not working as smooth as I expected from Apple. So either I need to upgrade, or I have to research and hack a bit. Papers
Atsuko ItoIt so happened that I come to Lehi, UT for two days, and colleague of mine said that SaltStack HQ is located just half mile away from Mirantis office. Here I should said, that I used to manage pretty big OpenStack installation using Salt back in Yandex, and right now I'm back to using it in TCPCloud (which was acquired by Mirantis recently). So I decided to come to SaltStack HQ to have a conversation with core people to get the idea which is meant behind all the stuff. Papers
Atsuko ItoPeople say knowledge is power. If so - a good measurement is a key for obtaining this knowledge. I'm going to find out the way how to measure system of any size. The problem is: docs and blog have no contents around how many resources you need to allocate, just some measurements to extrapolate. My goal is to dig into some of off-the-shelf tools to provide the data on resource planning for your The Measurement System. Papers
Atsuko ItoIn order to get as close to wire-line speed as possible for virtual machines, we want to install and utilize OVS with DPDK on some compute nodes. Papers
Atsuko ItoUser should be able to deploy compute nodes with dedicated network interface into SR-IOV mode, then create direct-attached port and boot a VM with it. Papers
Atsuko ItoPKI tokens was too fat in big clouds, and it was a real PITA. I've replaced it with Fernets, but here is a story behind it. Papers
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