Economic incentives and strongly held technical opinions like those of paxys occupying staff+ positions at every participant in modern computing. We’ve deluded

Economic incentives and strongly held technical opinions like those of paxys occupying staff+ positions at every participant in modern computing. We’ve deluded ourselves as an industry into believing that computers are too hard to build operate for anyone but Marvel’s Avengers of the Bay Area. That lie underpins the entire market capitalization of public cloud and it’s amazing how little clothing that lie actually wears in the end. Kubernetes doesn’t go after it, either; it complicates your system so exponentially that it drives the same lie. All Kubernetes does is assign a workload to a machine and hook crap up to it. That problem was solved in the 1960s by systems that don’t take multiple FTEs just to operate itself. When you look at Kubernetes in this light there’s a moment of clarity waiting regarding why it exists in the first place, and why it will never in a millennium replace Borg. In 2010, I joined a social media startup. I was the only operations employee on the team of nine who had ever touched an actual server with my hands. We’re on the third or fourth generation of systems people now who’ve never heard anything except the cloud-native drum and how they’ll never be qualified to run their fingers along the faceplate of the computers running their business. paxys is sharing a derivative of that because it is a strongly held industry belief and a safe language to speak in this market. It just doesn’t make it true, and that’s a powerful realization, but that’s not something most people are ready to hear and truly understand. You’re asking the absolutely right questions. You’re just asking an industry that gave up on itself so long ago that kids born after UTAH2000 can vote now.