Shroud is great, easy recommendation. Another of Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay, also great, also very alien.

I didn't go in with the expectation that they'd be just like Rendezvous with Rama.

Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach

Reread books 1-4 of Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series to read #5 https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

John Scalzi's Interdependency Series https://www.goodreads.com/series/202297-the-interdependency

Basically all of the Culture Series by Iain M Banks https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culture

Of Peter F Hamilton:

- The Salvation Sequence series https://www.goodreads.com/series/242882-salvation-sequence

- The Void Series, a sequel-trilogy to the Commonwealth Universe series https://www.goodreads.com/series/43520-void

Of Alastair Reynolds:

- Pushing Ice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48991704-pushing-ice

- Eversion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097716-eversion

Of Adrian Tchaikovsky:

- Shroud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230237860-shroud

- Elder Race https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56815367-elder-race

- Alien Clay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199851460-alien-clay

- Going through The Final Architecture now https://www.goodreads.com/series/305076-the-final-architectu...

Also Upgrade, by Blake Crouch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59439117-upgrade

Also First, by Randy Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196399619-first

https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/533c6539221ae15e3f000031

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

https://github.com/RCALabs/mmogit/blob/db70c9b377da7c4805a1d...

I'd assume a majority of people working with k8s knows what serverless is and where Functions as a Service work more generically.

The rest of the post just seems to be full of strawman arguments.

who is this kubernetes engineer villain? It sounds like a bad coworker at a company with a toxic culture, or a serverless advocate complaining at a bar after a bad meeting.

> k8s is great for container orchestration and complex workloads, while serverless shines for event-driven, auto-scaling applications.

> But will a k8s engineer ever admit that?

Of course. I manage k8s clusters in aws with eks. We use karpenter for autoscaling. A lot of our system is argo workflows, but we've also got a dozen or so services running.

We also have some large step functions written by a team that chose use lambda because aws can handle that kind of scaling much better than we would have wanted to in k8s.

Most of my playtime in Factorio is with overhaul mods, there's a lot of quality content there. I'm not sure how many of them have been brought to 2.0 or even will be. I'm curious where you think quality lacks.

Space Exploration has been my favorite, but Ultracube, Krastorio2, and Nullius were all quite fun. I'll admit I haven't finished Ultracube and Nullius, but I have restarted my Ultracube run in 2.0.

> Space age is interesting because new planets are being added by fans, but I don't think they're going to be as well designed and really bring anything interesting.

Check out Maraxsis and/or Cerys, these were the kinds of planet mods I was hoping for in Space Age. Maraxsis is an ocean planet and you build underwater and in deep trenches, and the planet's building has a base 50% quality. Cerys is a moon of Fulgora that's really quite small and it's more of a puzzle than anything.