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I don't know why would you need contractors, maybe that is what went wrong? A company I worked for years ago moved our custom built platform to AppEngine Flex

by midrus 5y ago

I don't know why would you need contractors, maybe that is what went wrong? A company I worked for years ago moved our custom built platform to AppEngine Flex and it was the best thing we could have done. We embaraced DevOps as it should be done (not with "devops people" but with developers understanding their production environment). No need for contractors. Just the documentations and an easy to use, well tested and battle proof platform. Similar experience many, many years ago with Tsuru, which is a kind of smaller self hosted heroku, although this was a company of about 30 enhineers

sascha_sl 5y ago
Scale, in terms of diversity of use-cases rather than requests per second, seems to be a very important factor in choosing custom, semi-custom or ready-made. Kubernetes being "a platform for building platforms" still rings true to me, and it is extremely good at that. One major issue was that the culture wasn't great. SREs without teeth and Platform Engineers that fix the shortcomings of development teams with glue more than anything. As for why contractors, this was the IT division of a big retail business that refused to pay competitive salaries in solidarity with their other workers, but never fired anyone for underperforming (or not performing at all), so the people that actually get work done tend to leave pretty fast. They tried to compensate this with contractors. Some departments were fine, and I loved the team (high standards, created lots of value for teams), but it wasn't a great long term workplace.