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> Most developers just need something like heroku, tsuru, appengine, or openstack. A lot of companies don't operate at Google or Facebook scale but many compan
by halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
> Most developers just need something like heroku, tsuru, appengine, or openstack.
A lot of companies don't operate at Google or Facebook scale but many companies operate at a scale which quickly outgrows the solutions you mentioned. Maybe you just haven't worked at places with larger scale to see the benefits things like Kubernetes provides?
- midrus 5y agoThe key is in what that scale is. Everyone thinks they're already at that scale, or soon will be. Most are not and won't for a very long time. I've worked for large companies (> 500 engineers) where building your own custom thing might make sense. But I've also worked for companies with less than 60 engineers where about 10 of them where infrastructure engineers building all this craziness we're talking about. Put into the equation all these salaries and the opportunity cost and you have a pretty juicy budget for appengine or similar.