Re:Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventua...
by nailer on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:30AM
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> CGI was (and in some dark corners still is) a thing.
Yep. Tech does that - think about centralisation / distribution every few years, maybe it'll cycle back to people caring about their own containment tech in future. But not right now.
> Yeah but those people now have way easier to run local environments?
OK, so they wasted their time on their awful custom Docker/k8s thing that runs on top of EC2 anyway, and they have a slightly better way to spin up dev environments?
The rest of the conversation is about dev environments, bare metal, VMs and containers all have their place and I mostly agree with you (obviously containers are only useful when there's a Linux kernel on that desktop, Windows and Mac are bare metal or virtualising for the most part).
> What you're saying is that overzealous ops people who are looking to pad their own resumes should not be allowed to run amuck, and I agree with that, but docker is not the poster boy for engineering largess -- and I'd argue it never was.
You understand my point perfectly. I believe that docker is precisely the poster boy for engineering largess, but this is based on my own experiences (talking to a lot of young engineers in the startup world who love wasting investor money on ops) and it seems reasonable that you have had different experiences.
I think we have a good understanding of where we each come from and can end it here. Thanks for being civil.
Yep. Tech does that - think about centralisation / distribution every few years, maybe it'll cycle back to people caring about their own containment tech in future. But not right now.
> Yeah but those people now have way easier to run local environments?
OK, so they wasted their time on their awful custom Docker/k8s thing that runs on top of EC2 anyway, and they have a slightly better way to spin up dev environments?
The rest of the conversation is about dev environments, bare metal, VMs and containers all have their place and I mostly agree with you (obviously containers are only useful when there's a Linux kernel on that desktop, Windows and Mac are bare metal or virtualising for the most part).
> What you're saying is that overzealous ops people who are looking to pad their own resumes should not be allowed to run amuck, and I agree with that, but docker is not the poster boy for engineering largess -- and I'd argue it never was.
You understand my point perfectly. I believe that docker is precisely the poster boy for engineering largess, but this is based on my own experiences (talking to a lot of young engineers in the startup world who love wasting investor money on ops) and it seems reasonable that you have had different experiences.
I think we have a good understanding of where we each come from and can end it here. Thanks for being civil.