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Very well written article! Personally, I'm still waiting for docker swarm. The thing is enterprise doesn't care about developer experience. They don't need to;
by cdrini 5y ago
Very well written article! Personally, I'm still waiting for docker swarm. The thing is enterprise doesn't care about developer experience. They don't need to; they pay developers so much, they have over qualified developers who can grok Kubernetes, and can hire more at a moment's notice. They care much more about whether it meets their goals. Smaller companies/orgs are what care about DX. They have likely very few, potentially not super highly qualified developers, and very limited resources. To them, something that their developers can set up, understand, and maintain, that's reliable and resilient, is a HUGE win.
- clipradiowallet 5y ago> Personally, I'm still waiting for docker swarm. What are you waiting for, is there something new in the works wrt swarm? I was a swarm fan early on(and secretly still am), but otherwise k8s is where I spend all my time at work.
- cdrini 5y agoIt never quite felt "ready"; it's development and docs always felt like an after thought. I guess it's more to do with marketing than the actual service. And I'm always afraid they're going to axe the thing. It probably is ready enough to give it a whirl.
- zaphar 5y agoI think you vastly overestimate the skill level of enterprise developers. Enterprise may pay a lot but they also hamstring developers in some interesting ways which tends to attract people who are better at the political game than the tech. The high pay attracts skill just the wrong skill in many cases.