Re:Sample cloud-native application with microservices
by sitkack on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:52AM
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I am not sure that is true. I ran fleets of FreeBSD machines 20 years ago and we dd'd disks to spin up new hosts, PXE booted some, local and remote (NFS) storage. Even in the 90s, machines were cattle.
The pieces are largely the same, but in a lot of ways, the tooling has _enabled_ more complexity than is necessary. Things have become specialized in incongruent ways that makes things harder. Simplicity is a constant struggle and a quality all of its own. Sometimes you have it by accident, where it then occupies the unknown known quadrant.
Re:Sample cloud-native application with microservices
by paxys on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:02PM
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> I ran fleets of FreeBSD machines 20 years ago and we dd'd disks to spin up new hosts, PXE booted some, local and remote (NFS) storage
To me all of this sounds like crazy complexity vs a basic Kubernetes cluster. It all depends on what you are comfortable with I guess.
Re:Sample cloud-native application with microservices
by apta on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:04PM
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> Did Google or Yahoo run out of some dude's laptop back in the day?
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/33...
Didn't Facebook also start in Harvard's dorms?
Things are simpler now, not more complex. The tools are better, more standardized, and way more broadly available. It's up to you whether you need or want them or not.