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A shitload of stuff from the Bad Old Days is "not particularly slow" now that everything's in cloud-whatevers and k8s clusters. Anyone remember when you offloa
by wharvle 3y ago
A shitload of stuff from the Bad Old Days is "not particularly slow" now that everything's in cloud-whatevers and k8s clusters.
Anyone remember when you offloaded something to the server to make it faster? Now it's like "well this is blazing fast on my machine, but we'll see how it does when it's deployed to prod..."
- pjmlp 3y agoI always joke that cloud is Tanenbaum's revenge. All that monolithic kernel performance wasted in endless layers of virtualization.
- wharvle 3y agoEvery time I use some cloud-thingy that's just fucking scheduling, running, and managing multiple processes, and it's way harder and more error-prone and less reliable and burns a multiple more person-hours to set up and manage than just, I don't know, doing that on an operating system, which is a thing specifically designed for that kind of work, plus performs like dogshit, I die a little inside. [EDIT] Incidentally, I don't hate all this stuff—I like docker-as-a-cross-distro-package-and-process-manager better than most of the rest Linux has to offer on that front, I find k8s kinda-nifty, but wish it 1) didn't always seem to involve so much goddamn yaml, which is so shockingly horrible that I can't believe it's still in so many things, and 2) were better-integrated with the underlying operating system(s) rather than reinventing so very many wheels and being another layer, rather than part of the system. Like I can vaguely imagine, through a hazy cloud of dream, some kind of hypothetical k8s-alike integrated into FreeBSD that I'd absolutely love.
- no_wizard 3y agoIf you're into FreeBSD, you may want to look into jails[0] [0]: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/ https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/