The thing I long for currently is a way to configure k8s that is not template yaml hell. I imagine an IDE like experience, so likely using a relatively main stream language where you have some type safety and help can point to relevant doc links. You could do something like: pod.New("name).[pop up of all the properties I can set with links to understand them]. I imagine you populating and linking all your things together using proper variables, with proper loops, in a proper language. At the end, you call some generator that then writes all your shitty yaml.
Next, prometheus data anomaly detection. We display our graphs in graphite fwiw. I would like the alert manager to be able to say, "this tuesday 9am graph of requests per second is sufficiently different from other tuesdays at 9am, you should look into it."
Better mysql db replication than what mysql or debezium provides. I want to just say "I want these tables here mirrored over to this other database." Debezium is close to what we would want aside from it, you know, actually working. It follows bin logs, so it does not do cascading deletes. It chokes on 0000-00-00 dates because java's type system. You have to leverage a kafka install with kafka connect. There are just too many moving parts.
I recently got some new aquarium lights that require ReefBeat app to run. Kinda garbage. If you are in the hardware space, better smart lighting and pump management for reef aquariums seems like a good space. The lights _require_ the app to work. Lame. I can set the led lights to have different percentages of different colors throughout the day and moon lights that can mimic the lunar cycle. But the app is intuitive and the fact that the lights have to act as a wifi point and then piggy back off my wifi to be able to communicate with the app seems all to brittle. The lights flicker when I change settings too.
Those of the ones on my mind this afternoon.
A COVID-19 vaccine
A browser that bypasses all paywalls and never shows an ad. It should charge a monthly fee and distribute it among the content I read, like Spotify.