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A part of me feels like DevOps is hitting peak Nodejs framework. There is something new every week, and none of it makes anything easier. Quite the opposite, th

A part of me feels like DevOps is hitting peak Nodejs framework. There is something new every week, and none of it makes anything easier. Quite the opposite, things continue to get more complicated as different DevOps-focused companies try to sell you on the their latest "open source" offering. And as much as I try to keep up, none of them deliver what I'm looking for. They all deliver on making the 5-minute pitch seem simple and easy, while ignoring the realities of what people are dealing with. I say this because between everything being Kube this and Pod that, I'm more and more inclined to just let AWS handle it all, and all those products and features people are building out will just get ignored because I don't have time to deal with learning yet another annoying YAML config file that does 50% of what I want and the other 50% is coming some time next quarter/year/never sign here. Edit: This is a comment based on my thoughts after reading the title listed here on HN: a list of products, cons, and companies in a random order.

ChrisShort 7y ago
100% fair. I’ll attempt better titles in the future.
paulddraper 7y ago
A lot of this is the paradox of choice at work. [1] The options are better than they ever have been. The issue is that people feel anxiety of choice between serverless, containers, VMs, cloud, bare-metal, even though all of those approaches are fine and have good solutions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
moondev 7y ago
I certainly see where you are coming from, bit I feel a lot of it depends on your domain. Many of the tools are not meant for common development-centric use cases. If platform is your focus it's a very exciting time! If a project is ignored then that reflects the results of adoption and community involvement. The JS ecosystem moves just as fast, if not faster. I wouldn't expect a platform engineer or team to fret about keeping up with every new project in that space. On the other hand if you are handling all aspects of the SDLC, that would seem exhausting. It's the side effect of a vibrant open source community!

ChrisShort 7y ago

100% fair. I’ll attempt better titles in the future.

paulddraper 7y ago

A lot of this is the paradox of choice at work. [1] The options are better than they ever have been. The issue is that people feel anxiety of choice between serverless, containers, VMs, cloud, bare-metal, even though all of those approaches are fine and have good solutions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

moondev 7y ago

I certainly see where you are coming from, bit I feel a lot of it depends on your domain. Many of the tools are not meant for common development-centric use cases. If platform is your focus it's a very exciting time! If a project is ignored then that reflects the results of adoption and community involvement. The JS ecosystem moves just as fast, if not faster. I wouldn't expect a platform engineer or team to fret about keeping up with every new project in that space. On the other hand if you are handling all aspects of the SDLC, that would seem exhausting. It's the side effect of a vibrant open source community!