Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes
Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes
Xenobroom Inc., a young startup fresh out of Silicon Valley started a lengthy process of upgrading their server infrastructure back in May 2020. According to the remaining fragments of CEO's daily journal and CTO's engineering notes, the company enjoyed a sharp rise in daily use in the midst of the ...
The site name's a play on "The Onion" so it's gotta be satire, right? I couldn't find an about page to confirm.
The CEO now seeks help from Phutar Afrayughum, a psychic and extrasensory perception specialist who allegedly helped Google increase their marketshare in the messaging app market, and was also involved in developing the Material Design framework.
Seems like a legit article :shrug:
Yeah I thought it was satire until I read that. I can't think of an explanation for Google's product decisions in any other way
I’ve got 20+ years of professional experience at all different levels. I can take an idea and turn it into a Docker image with fully automated CI/CD on myriad cloud platforms.
K8s is still black magic to me.
Just a system that deploys, injects configs, mounts dies, handles the networking based on configs and scheduling.
It CAN get more complicated since it enables more advanced deployment types, but it can be simple.
I run k3s on every computer of mine as a single node cluster now as an alt to running podman or docker.
Its black magic that takes docker images so its actually a pretty simple once u got all ya shit dockerified
Yeah it's like docker++. Somehow networking between pod is also easier than between container. Also with k9s and argocd it's much easier to see the entire cluster.
I enjoy K8s, even though it adds a lot of things that can (and will at some point) break. But at a certain scale it becomes worth it because some things become so, so easy.
I can absolutely see the benefit for really huge deployments or complex, highly-available systems. I've even sort of used it in my job working with those things. But I'm still just running commands I don't understand that some sysadmin gave me.
Re: your username,
You're a Godling of Semi Trucks that have a Hemi?
Lucky 10000: It's a pun. A quaver is a duration of a musical note in the UK, equivalent to a USA eighth note; a semidemihemiquaver is a sixtyfourth note, used to notate e.g. certain kinds of trumpet trills.
The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.
Yes, it's satire.
The page is run by one author https://www.theolognion.com/about and no description or goal described
Runs on "substack" platform (standard software)
The story reads like a story, and the mentioned company does not exist
I read somewhere that Volkswagen has about 900 K8s clusters. I feel that there is a direct correlation between this and the quality of their shitty cars.
Some on here once described the idea of an innovation budget. Basically you can do about 3 new things at once before you forget what the hell you are doing and that has made so much sense to me.
It's not that you forget what you are doing.
It's that all the unknown problems start interfering with each other, so you can't manage to do anything.
That is probably most common! The forgetting what you are doing part probably only comes so far down the road of trying to make a system that works despite all the interferences.
I think they're describing my company's upcoming GCP -> AWS migration.
Hope you are getting a rebate on those egress fees.