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Until you have 3 days of downtime and end up on a special build of consul that nobody else has while nearly decimating your companies stock price, reputation, a
by bastardoperator 3y ago
Until you have 3 days of downtime and end up on a special build of consul that nobody else has while nearly decimating your companies stock price, reputation, and employee morale, the alternatives start looking better. The point I'm making is that it doesn't handle their scale today and that projects with larger communities, support, and usage exist today. No one said k8s was a silver bullet, it's just an alternative to an already failing infrastructure.
- busterarm 3y agoIf you truly read and understood the Roblox post-mortem you would understand that the problems that they had with Consul were partly and unintentionally self-inflicted and partly due to BoltDB. The "special build" was just early access to Hashi's already-ongoing work to replace boltdb with bbolt, which has long-since shipped. The hyperbole applied to the description of the harm done to Roblox here I'm just going to ignore. Roblox is still popular. The company still has the reputation of a rock-solid engineering department. Roblox's stock isn't doing much differently than the rest of technology companies on the market and the "damage" you mention is vastly overstated anyway. In fact, Roblox's stock literally had a huge rally after and PEAKED within two weeks after the outage.