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There's something amusingly cyclical about a blade server architecture for Kubernetes. The tech comes out of a whole movement towards combining commodity machin
by closeparen 7y ago
There's something amusingly cyclical about a blade server architecture for Kubernetes. The tech comes out of a whole movement towards combining commodity machines using clever software instead of buying specialist hardware, but then adds the specialist hardware back in.
Some deeper integration between Kubernetes and the hardware (acceleration/offload ASICs maybe), branding of k8s + this hardware as a unified product, and this would literally just be a mainframe. Which is not a terrible idea! Maybe Kubernetes is the mainframe operating system of the future.
- inetknght 7y agoThink of it as a way of using mixed hardware: mainframe hardware in conjunction with commodity hardware. It's extremely useful in that context.
- hinkley 7y agoSome mumblings have been heard accusing us all of trying to reimplement mainframes, badly. For a long time I have been watching the ebb and flow between peer to peer and client server and it’s gotten quite a bit fuzzy lately. I suppose if you treat cloud providers as a large amorphous server, it sort of still fits the mold.