cetico | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
cetico | 7 years ago | on: Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Milky Way at 5 million mph
Looking forward to the Hollywood movie in which heroes have to stop a STAR from hitting Earth.
cetico | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Kubernetes too complex for most use cases?
If you need containers to solve the "it works on my workstation" problem, and you need to make your containers run in production and scale them easily, and you have lots of applications to setup and deploy, then Kubernetes is fantastic. But if you can get away with just running your application in plain VMs and the burden of maintaining a Consul-based app discovery isn't a problem for you, your proposed setup makes a lot of sense.
Custom infra has an operational cost that is proportional to the number of applications. Kubernetes has a high fixed operational cost that you always incur, whether you have 1 application or 20. Once your operational complexity is high enough, it makes sense to use Kubernetes.
Soon higher level solutions will come along that will delivery the same advantages of Kubernetes but remove the learning curve and ops cost of Kubernetes.
cetico | 15 years ago | on: The Most Isolated Man on the Planet
