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Was it more than the salary of even a single software engineer?
by ummonk 4y ago
Was it more than the salary of even a single software engineer?
- yazzku 4y agoAh, the classic excuse for writing shitty software systems.
- britneybitch 4y agoWe wasted 5-6 figures of salary dollars lovingly building those clusters and the automation surrounding them. We had blue-green zero downtime deploys, but no customers who would notice any downtime to begin with. I think the CTO just wanted k8s on his resume. In one afternoon (at most), I could have written a script to deploy our demo with docker compose over ssh. Sure, docker compose won't scale forever, but their runway didn't last forever either.
- ummonk 4y agoFair enough. To be honest, of the abstraction tools out there, Kubernetes is the one I'd hold off on as long as possible. Load balancing proxies, docker compose, auto-scaling, cloud databases, etc. are things I'd do relatively early, but not Kubernetes.