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The author's relationship with the machine reminds me of Scotty in Start Trek. In the age of "the cloud" that kind of engineering intimacy feels like something
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
The author's relationship with the machine reminds me of Scotty in
Start Trek. In the age of "the cloud" that kind of engineering
intimacy feels like something lost in days of yore.
- vanderZwan 4y agoHmm, what does that make Geordi though? And what would the Scotty/Geordi cross-over episode look like?
- pjmlp 4y agoThe cloud is just the rebranding of timesharing, anyone that got that scars in mainframes, microcomputers and UNIX, can see lots of similarities with "Cloud Native". As Sun used to put it, The Network is the Computer.
- api 4y agoI call it mainframe 2.0
- pjmlp 4y agoYeah, nice point.
- pipingdog 4y agoFrom the point of view of the user, I wish this was more true than it is. Cloud users have a specific thing they want to get done, and ideally, the cloud should do that and get out of the way. And yet, there's still room for specialists to "get close" to the cloud and have an expertise in glueing cloud services together to make a product. From the point of view of cloud providers, standing up a cloud service is enormously complex, filled with interesting distributed computing problems, especially under scale, diverse tenancy (and the predators that attracts), diverse workloads, and creative consumers finding ways to use it that you hadn't considered.
- pjmlp 4y agoThose specialists were the ones writing JCL jobs in "Cloud" v1.0. It wasn't YAML, but was just as messy.