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Their execution is impressive. Very impressive. And, execution is what often separates the leaders from the pack, rather than some "unique" aspects. However,
by gz5 7y ago
Their execution is impressive. Very impressive. And, execution is what often separates the leaders from the pack, rather than some "unique" aspects.
However, HashiCorp seems unique in a few regards:
1. A pioneer in monetizing OSS via SaaS services.
2. Many successes. Can't think of a recent startup in this space with so many successes - can you? Sentinel, Consul, Terraform etc.
3. Arguably at the start of the curve, e.g. service mesh automation is really difficult?
- rxin 7y agoYou should take a look at Databricks, in all three dimensions.
- carlosf 7y agoDatabricks is easily the best spent money in my stack. I also love Hashicorp's products, but unfortunately I'm not paying them anything. Before Terraform Cloud their enterprise offerings were quite bad IMO (no SaaS, had to talk with Sales, provision infrastructure yourself, high initial commitment, etc...). I will probably start using Terraform Cloud in a near future thought, just waiting for some key features to be released so I can integrate it to my pipe (Gitlab Groups integration, more flexible module layout).
- time0ut 7y agoI tried Terraform Cloud and went back to open source. I felt like it was a step backwards from Terragrunt. I'm only using it in the context of AWS though. I might try it again for a future project.
- Jgrubb 7y agoI have a major treat for you both if you haven't already listened to this A16Z episode with the CEOs of both companies - https://overcast.fm/+BlzGXPbI0 https://overcast.fm/+BlzGXPbI0