thanks for typing this out! it was so strange to see Rackspace left in the dust by AWS, despite Rackspace seemingly going full steam ahead with OpenStack. yea

thanks for typing this out! it was so strange to see Rackspace left in the dust by AWS, despite Rackspace seemingly going full steam ahead with OpenStack. yeah, OpenStack was a stinking pile of python shit cobbled together with RabbitMQ, mysql, an ungodly amount of hope and iptables rules... but AWS was also literally just a lot of Perl scripts under the hood, with a UI and UX that made DIY silicon plus Linux from Scratch appealing. yet AWS is now an undisputed king (with the same steak knives in my eyes UI/UX), and Rackspace is dying. but OpenStack lives on, and during this time k8s appeared from nothing and completely turned many things upside down. it seems the hard truth is that "fanatical support" was great, but it was simply not pushed far enough, and it took someone like Jeff Bezos to commit to it. (see "consumer obsession"). and probably the lynchpin behind "why AWS grew so big" is that the whole profit of Amazon was pumped into it. AWS has more PoPs, more services, more knobs, ... than Rackspace and OpenStack combined ever could have. and it has all these to be able to corner the market and completely extinguish competition. (as it did with books initially.)