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I enjoyed working with concourse as the foundations of Pivotal's release engineering systems. We tried several other platforms, but ultimately concourse was tai
by gavmor 3y ago
I enjoyed working with concourse as the foundations of Pivotal's release engineering systems. We tried several other platforms, but ultimately concourse was tailor-made for Pivotal-style dev/ops ie highly technical, prioritizing version-control and CLIs over GUIs, with the wall-mounted "build monitor" as a first-class user. While Concourse wasn't explicitly a Pivotal product, shouldn't Conway's Law encourage us not to understate the influences of the Pivotal milieu?
I don't doubt that VMware failed to nurture Concourse's maintenance post-acquisition. I hesitate to make sweeping statements about the legendary virtualization behemoth, but I personally doubt their commitment XP dev/ops culture.
Edit: don't take my word for it, read someone more closely involved to this day, Nat Bennett https://www.simplermachines.com/some-facts-about-concourse/ https://www.simplermachines.com/some-facts-about-concourse/