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It's all anecdotal. For example I know many folks who make $$$ doing the boring old thing because it is reliable, it gets results quickly with low risk, the eng
by jjnoakes 5y ago
It's all anecdotal. For example I know many folks who make $$$ doing the boring old thing because it is reliable, it gets results quickly with low risk, the engineers know the tech inside and out, and not many other folks want to work with "boring tech".
- cpach 5y agoJust out of curiosity, what are some examples of boring tech in this case?
- isoskeles 5y agoMakes me think of stuff like managing WordPress although I'm not sure if that's an example they had in mind.
- aprdm 5y agoDjango, Rails, Postgres...
- benburleson 5y agoPHP, MySQL
- dijit 5y agoPerl, Postgres, Java, Solaris
- cpach 5y agoHm… Which companies still use Solaris (or Illumos)? I don’t hear about it very often these days.
- dijit 5y agoI am pretty sure my IT department is transitioning to Nexenta which is an illumos. Company before last was using some Solaris+nexenta. Samsung has an enormous smartos deployment that would rival all of Azure. (Based on what I learned about Azure)
- kazen44 5y agosmartos is a great operating system. Kind of a shame the kind of thinking did not catch on yet.
- NexRebular 5y agoWe swapped most of our linux and vmware platforms to Triton and SmartOS and been loving it ever since. Obviously there's still need to run linux in bhyves due to some specific software (e.g. docker) but generally services are on either lx-zones or smartmachines. It just works.