4 ms·
It's not that hard to use Kubernetes and it makes the developer's life easy. It's very easy to deploy helm charts and even though that there are many gotchas an
by thiago_fm 7y ago
It's not that hard to use Kubernetes and it makes the developer's life easy. It's very easy to deploy helm charts and even though that there are many gotchas and complex things, if you want to deploy something simple, it is easy and completely doable to do it even solo.
(rant)
After over 10 years in development I've done and used literally all the things people complain here a lot about: Virtual machines, Single page apps, docker, microservices, FP and the list goes on. Even though I've struggled, I feel very lucky to be able to try all those things and it's a joy to use and I've shipped shitloads of great code that is making a lot of money to a lot of people and improving businesses in general.
I don't mean you need to use K8S or even like it, but there is definitely developers which know their shit very well, and can also make great Single page apps using more than 3 different JS framework, also write good backend code and so on. And also enjoy all of this and make companies definitely successful. It sickens me a bit how so much posts of this kind get a lot of attention and could be replaced by "yes, software, like everything in life, is complex!!!11". I think the article itself is completely shallow to actually touch the difficulties there is with using kubernetes and is mostly useless information. There are at least 10 posts with a better and more structure criticism, but it's just because it's cool to complain about new things, it gets automatically traction in HN(which used to be a place where people like new things...).
So... yes, you shouldn't use K8S everywhere(also applies to everything...), but it is the new thing(well, not really new...). Should we just talk about Apache mod_php? It's natural that people want to try new stuff and actually enjoy working with software. Not everybody sees everything as problems. "Now you have eight problems, hehehehehe!!11".
Am I the only one that found this post completely useless and at some degree, toxic?
(/rant)
- alexandercrohde 7y agoWell good for you that your SPAs work every time, and you never broke production with kubernetes. Here's a cookie. Now for the rest of us who work with engineers across all skill ranges and experience levels, we actually do need to care about such factors. The question is -- you hire a guy off craigslist to run your site, and every minute of downtime costs $1,000. Are you going to want him to use Kubernetes or a braindead simple hosted solution?
- aganame 7y agoHaving an industry veteran like Itamar weigh on a pointless complexity that everyone seems to be in love with right now? Extremely valuable. Possibly saves peoples' lives, financially speaking. Old IT folks are like explosives experts: if you see them fleeing in panic, follow them!
- t0astbread 7y agoSome people are tired of acceleration and fear the industry moves too fast for them and some people are tired of the people who would like to take a step back because they feel like they're being held back. Both feelings are valid and it's good to have the full spectrum represented.