Today was a production deployment day at work. It was a good deployment as it was un-eventful. We prepared for a few hours then ran an automated deployment pipeline and from that point it was around half an hour of monitoring the deployment first into production staging AKS then watching how Kubernetes was spinning up the sixteen new containers and terminating the running old containers.
Then we watched it do content serialization and deployment of content definitions into a running Sitecore instance. Then we deployed updated items into or CDN blob storage and finally purged the CDN using the last step in the automated deployment pipeline.
Then it was time to test everything and verify that all the changes made it into the production environment and make sure that everything is still working correctly. Everything tested out perfectly.
While doing all that I also tested out upgrading my witness node to 1.28.7 from 1.28.3. It was a bit tricky, but it worked perfectly and I even produced a couple blocks already. Will probably do a more detailed witness update post tomorrow and I still have to upgrade my backup witness node.
All that sitting and upgrading meant that I only had about half an hour for my gym workout. I made it a fast one with just pull ups and push-ups. It is the most effective type of workout when I am short on time.
Though calisthenics style workouts are also very efficient, but they are a bit harder on my knees so I try to limit those.
Splinterlands season started and the opponents are as expected much harder than any time during the rest of the season. Lots of top scholars as opponents.
Turns out Xbot is getting rid of xbot tokens, so you have until next week to redeem those for x-credits. And SPS reward share went up from 10% to 30% and even 35% if you want the boost mode.
I also noticed that the top SPS validator nodes seem to be disabled, probably from the Hive blockchain issues we had last week. It is strange that top voted validators are not checking on their validator nodes that get automatically disabled if they miss too many blocks.
The crypto is down and SPS is down so people don't care to do regular maintenance and checking on their nodes. For me coming from a professional IT background these things seem a little strange.
Next week I am going to VS Live conference in Redmond Washington, should make for a lot of industry related content and where the IT industry is going during these Artificial Intelligence times...
That is also going to make for a different kind of post. It has been a while since I have attended one of those and I am actually really looking forward to it. I have already pre-planned all the sessions I am doing to attend in addition to the keynote sessions.
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