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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by cameronbrown on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:32AM (#23465099)
> Quite recently developed "industry standard". Many tools mentioned have been used for tens of years, they work robustly, are well documented and there is lots of people who can use them.

k8s is based off of Borg, which has existed for far longer.

https://research.google/pubs/pub43438/

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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by vertex-four on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:50AM (#23465439)
"What Google does" is not an industry standard.
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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by cameronbrown on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:03PM (#23468420)
That's not what I'm saying. Your point was about the maturity of k8s which makes sense if it sprung from nowhere, but k8s encapsulates a lot of "lessons learned" of a very stable and mature product (even if proprietary).
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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by skj on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:45AM (#23466126)
Really it's just "inspired" by borg. Using both, they're really not very similar.
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