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My first instinct was that this model wouldn’t work because employees need a lot more context/onboarding than servers. But then I thought about all the technol
by zztop44 4y ago
My first instinct was that this model wouldn’t work because employees need a lot more context/onboarding than servers.
But then I thought about all the technology that was developed (docker, k8s, CI/CD) to make spinning up virtual servers painless.
I don’t love that my brain works this way, but I guess there’s a decent business in trying to build the analogous technology for “spinning up and shutting down” employees.
- xienze 4y ago> but I guess there’s a decent business in trying to build the analogous technology for “spinning up and shutting down” employees. It’s called contract employment.
- Aeolun 4y agoIt works a bit differently if your servers spend 3 months spinning up to speed.
- scarface74 4y agoDealing with Kubernetes is “painless”? But it’s not the infrastructure that takes time. It’s the business context, the knowing how to navigate the code and the organization to get things done. The “favor economy” goes a long way in business.
- zztop44 4y agoIt’s painless compared to trying to do the same thing without it. But yes, that’s essentially what I mean. Infrastructure is easy. What technology (in the broad sense) can help can you quickly spin up a worker who has context, can navigate the organisation and can be productive. Maybe it’s not solvable, but probably it is.
- scarface74 4y agoWell, you know before K8s people just connected to shared resources in a dev environment.