To all mastodon admins:

Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!

Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!

(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)

Mechanic *kicking the tires* there's something I need to tell you about your car

Me: what?

Mechanic *punches the door* I hate it

I took this pic a while back at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. It shows the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the VLT Interferometer, gazing up to the sky. These telescopes work together, achieving a spatial resolution similar to that of a massive telescope as large as the separation between them.

Curious about how this works? Check out our interferometry explainer: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography

Good DevOps practice is to build your systems with failure in mind.

What you build *will* break. That's inevitable. So what you build should be built to be quickly recoverable.

You should have good disaster recovery plans.

You should have backups.

Your deployment should be automated, and use infrastructure-as-code extensively.

#DevOps #MastoAdmin