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(context: I used to be a senior engineer on Airbnb's deployment infrastructure and have also met Kate in person) I think Kate and the rest of the team at Opsol
by venantius 9y ago
(context: I used to be a senior engineer on Airbnb's deployment infrastructure and have also met Kate in person)
I think Kate and the rest of the team at Opsolutely are building the right product to solve this problem - she's extremely well informed about where the technological landscape is currently and is building something that represents best practices (in particular, being able to configure and ship Docker containers directly onto a hosted k8s infrastructure).
The real challenge here is that the market is bifurcated - on the one hand, products like Heroku or AWS' Elastic Beanstalk mean that smaller firms don't really need to do too much work to get a simple deployment set up, whereas on the other end (e.g. Airbnb) deployment becomes so specialized that there's basically no way for a third-party firm to address the peculiar needs that have emerged. I suspect that Opsolutely (and other firms in this deployment-as-a-service) space are going to need to figure out how they cut into this market as early in their client's infrastructure build-out as possible.
- morgante 9y ago> The real challenge here is that the market is bifurcated This is spot on and has been one of the biggest challenges in building my startup. [0] The way I've been approaching it has been to build less of a platform so much as an engineer-as-a-service. Our primary output is code and pull requests, so it works into existing automation. I'm really curious to see how Opsolutely is tackling this though. [0] http://getgandalf.com/ http://getgandalf.com/