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Open source is a trade-off. In many cases, it's rocket fuel for early and mid-stage growth in exchange for reduced barriers to entry for competitors. It also po

Open source is a trade-off. In many cases, it's rocket fuel for early and mid-stage growth in exchange for reduced barriers to entry for competitors. It also points out a real weakness in infrastructure: why is provisioning, configuring and deploying code so difficult and expensive? Shouldn't we have OS level tools that make this trivial at this point? It's pretty amazing that we're taking patterns like load balancer + Shared Cache + Database + Libraries + App Code + config files and assets and making it so difficult to configure them and deploy them. Reducing deployment complexity is still a huge opportunity...

donmcronald 6y ago
> Reducing deployment complexity is still a huge opportunity... I agree with that. There's probably even room for another CI system that's highly opinionated and focused on building images. Most of the existing ones kind of suck at building images.
- jonfw 6y ago
  We use Tekton where I work- which is really great in a K8s context.
  - devthane 6y ago
    Agreed, we use it as well, it’s shaping up nicely, though its a good bit more user complicated than other solutions. But hey, this is Kubernetes.
xnx 6y ago
Deploying apps is truly ridiculously complex. This is the problem I really see "no code" addressing. To me, writing the logic of an application is easy compared to the ridiculousness of publishing the code somewhere.