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Re:Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? by fxtentacle on Saturday May 30, 2020 @06:17AM (#23359992)
It depends.

If you want to be a successful indie company, avoid cloud and distributed like the plague.

If you want to advance in the big corp career ladder, user Kubernetes with as many tiny instances and micro-services as you can.

"Oversaw deployment of 200 services on 1000 virtual servers" sounds way better than "started 1 monolithic high-performance server". But the resulting SaaS product might very well be the same.

Re:Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? by waheoo on Saturday May 30, 2020 @01:20PM (#23362793)
I just tell people I use a mono repo to house all my single file microservices.

Php under apache.

Re:Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? by fxtentacle on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:09AM (#23367814)
Great description!

I run a monolithic ensemble that abstracts away the concept of multiple processes to deliver a unified API.

In short, it's multithreaded.

Re:Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? by fock on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:32AM (#23361447)
recently talked to a non-SV software developer friend: yeah, I killed two days making a window show up on top of all others on ubuntu with QT (under KDE, so, a supported business-configuration...). After telling him that this is a standard-feature of most X windows managers and asking, whether he used Wayland (didn't know), we went into functionality. "Yeah, you can enter a command and execute it on a remote machine" - "isn't that what ssh is for and you can do with a 20 line shell-script"" - "Yeah maybe, but some management type developed it, while he was still a grunt so we have to keep it...". I bet, said management type is still bragging about how he introduced convenient remote command execution by writing a QT app and his own server (or maybe he's using telnet...).