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There is a very high price to pay when going with your own scheduling solution: you have to compete with the resources google and others are throwing at the pro
by motoboi 3y ago
There is a very high price to pay when going with your own scheduling solution: you have to compete with the resources google and others are throwing at the problem.
Also, there is the market for talent, which is non-existent for fly.io technology if it's not open source (I see what you did here, Google): you'll have to teach people how your solution works internally and congratulations, now you have a global pool of 20 (maybe 100) people that can improved it (if you have really deep pockets, maybe you can have 5 Phd). Damn, universities right now maybe have classes about Kubernetes for undergrad students. Will they teach your internal solution?
So, if a big part of your problem is already solved by a gigantic corporation investing millions to create a pool of talented people, you better take use of that!
Nice move, fly.io!
- nojvek 3y agoWhat if it’s really not that complicated, and by adding more people you make it more complex. So complex that you need even more people to maintain that complexity? I love fly.io for rethinking some of the problems.