@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman And I wasn't alone. I distinctly remember the conversation amongst a lot of working Linux folks at the time being one of excitement and optimism.
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I just deleted 1,372 disks from Google cloud and 7 project spaces.@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman Node resonates because that is a lot of how I got started using it. But it wasn't just hype. There were real problems of deployability and reproducibility that it solved for Linux admins and developers targeting Linux servers.
I'll cop to missing Solaris on account of being still in school and not being a BSD expert, but when I was running school IT systems, Docker arrived and immediately solved longstanding complications.
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I just deleted 1,372 disks from Google cloud and 7 project spaces.@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman Fair enough. To what do you attribute the rise of Docker?
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I just deleted 1,372 disks from Google cloud and 7 project spaces.@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman While the concept of containers is old, I think we can both agree that the "productization" of them is less so.
And as far as scale, I'm referring specifically to choosing a container orchestrator as the deployment target from day one.
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I just deleted 1,372 disks from Google cloud and 7 project spaces.@Viss @vwbusguy @arichtman I really do think a giant piece of it—especially in the tech industry/startup space itself—is a decision-making process that assumes:
- Old == bad
- We will be the next 1M user unicorn and should build for that today.
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I just deleted 1,372 disks from Google cloud and 7 project spaces.@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman This conversation is quite the piece of evidence that you are the exception to the rule. Your knowledge is impressive, and rare. Certainly moreso than orchestrated container deployments. Y'all are both right.
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I just deleted 1,372 disks from Google cloud and 7 project spaces.@Viss @vwbusguy @arichtman I believe this is generally correct. The scale at which its utility becomes apparent will never be achieved by the vast majority of those who use it. The choice was informed by hype and a desire to believe they would one day require, as K8s puts it, "planetary scale."
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I just deleted 1,372 disks from Google cloud and 7 project spaces.@Viss @vwbusguy @arichtman On the other hand, going on prem!
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I wonder if Mastodon is to Meta what Firefox is to Google.@[email protected] @rwg It's possible, although the scale of Fedi makes me think those numbers may in fact be reversed. All of non-Threads Fedi is _maybe 15 million users. Threads is already an order of magnitude larger, so the training data is already available without inviting litigation regarding consent.
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I wonder if Mastodon is to Meta what Firefox is to Google.@rwg Threads is for sure using Fedi in part of an anti-regulatory strategy, especially in the EU.