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Real talk, you don’t have the luxury of being an idealist right out of university. Your goal is to get a job. When you’re in that job you will likely not have the luxury of being an idealist either.

When you have enough experience making practical, reasoned decisions, then you can stand on principals.

For context, I have been in this business for nearly 20 years. The people I have personally worked with who have resisted things on philosophical grounds ALWAYS get left behind. I’ve seen it with systemd, the cloud, and now I’m seeing it again with kubernetes. You cannot escape the collective inertia of an entire industry.

Obviously there are still thresholds… I would never work for someone like Raytheon. You have to draw lines somewhere but saying you aren’t going to work for a company that does user behavior tracking is short sighted and impractical.

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ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Curious. Are you seeing those resisting k8s provide an alternative option for large scale orchestration of containers?

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- thelastknowngod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Most resistance I have seen mostly comes down to a misunderstanding in the benefits that kubernetes offers. The assumption is that kube is used for autoscaling and that, if the inbound traffic is predictable then the added complexity is unnecessary. When that happens the “kube isn’t right for all situations” turns into “kube isn’t right for any situation” whether the person in question would ever admit that or not…
  
  All of this ignores the MASSIVE reliability enhancement kube delivers and the huge amount of effort currently going into modern tool development surrounding the kube ecosystem.
  
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  - ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I figured it was something like that. I don’t think anybody in the industry believes kubernetes is even close to a great solution (it is a good one, just not great), but it’s mature enough that it solves most business needs well and there aren’t any good alternatives that I’ve seen.
    
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    thelastknowngod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I honestly love it. Of course it’s not perfect but I don’t ever want to go back to the old way if I can avoid it.
    
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Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m past kubernetes now haha Using DAPR and loving it. Letting azure manage the containers.

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