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So are these rumors about apple coming out with a PAAS/workload system that I've been hearing for 2-3 years starting to turn true? They've started hiring a lot
by mjayhn 6y ago
So are these rumors about apple coming out with a PAAS/workload system that I've been hearing for 2-3 years starting to turn true? They've started hiring a lot of kubernetes engineers and afaik they were a mesosphere shop until evidently recently (judging by the hires I'm seeing).
Curious to see if they contribute upstream.
- thefounder 6y agoSurely that PAAS will work only on MacOS, iOS and warchOS. All that amazing technology for just $50,000 license. Exactly like WebObjects!
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- outworlder 6y ago> They've started hiring a lot of kubernetes engineers Isn't that for their internal systems? This is how most companies use K8s anyway.
- mjayhn 6y agoIt's possible, but they're trying to hire some public-facing k8s engineers which makes me believe there is actually some veracity to that PAAS claim. If they're going to offer an "Apple Cloud" or something they're going to need public facing (conferences etc) engineers to convince other engineers to use the product. On the flip side I thought this was all a complete joke and a goofy rumor and would never happen until the last month where I saw a good portion of my twitter peers (k8s architects) talking about going to Apple, but as you said it could be for internal systems. I mean, honestly, I still think it's a pie in the sky rumor but maybe a little birdie will chirp.
- jamil7 6y agoWe might get lucky, they did upstream work to LLVM in the past.
- mjayhn 6y agoI totally forgot about that! Good point.
- hinkley 6y agoI have heard a number of people complain about the cross-compilation situation with the OS X/iOS ecosystem. The solution everyone wants is for Apple to support Windows or Linux (honestly that sounds like it would be a shorter put) as first class citizens in their tool chain. But I could also see Apple providing hardware by the day or month in a data center. They would have to reintroduce the X server for that, though. Rather than go full X Server, a little tweak to the Mac Pro would make it fit in a 6u rack slot on its side. It's millimeters too wide for that, and the cover is wrong. I wonder if a different skin could do it...