> but I guess there’s a decent business in trying to build the analogous technology for “spinning up and shutting down” employees.
It’s called contract employment.
It works a bit differently if your servers spend 3 months spinning up to speed.
Re:GitHub to Layoff 10%
by scarface74 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @07:00PM
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Dealing with Kubernetes is “painless”?
But it’s not the infrastructure that takes time. It’s the business context, the knowing how to navigate the code and the organization to get things done. The “favor economy” goes a long way in business.
It’s painless compared to trying to do the same thing without it.
But yes, that’s essentially what I mean. Infrastructure is easy. What technology (in the broad sense) can help can you quickly spin up a worker who has context, can navigate the organisation and can be productive. Maybe it’s not solvable, but probably it is.
Re:GitHub to Layoff 10%
by scarface74 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @07:38PM
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Well, you know before K8s people just connected to shared resources in a dev environment.
But then I thought about all the technology that was developed (docker, k8s, CI/CD) to make spinning up virtual servers painless.
I don’t love that my brain works this way, but I guess there’s a decent business in trying to build the analogous technology for “spinning up and shutting down” employees.