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> It might come as a shocker for you Thanks for the unneeded tone. But the solution that author likely uses is linkerd which is free for 50 users. And even the

> It might come as a shocker for you Thanks for the unneeded tone. But the solution that author likely uses is linkerd which is free for 50 users. And even then very likely it would be less than $1000/month. If it is too much for the org to pay, I don't think they need it. Service mesh is not something a small or medium sized company needs. > those solutions usually need tweaking & knowledge to be operated. And if any issues happen, swift support comes at a hefty premium. Exactly my point. Base price is not something that is gonna cost them the most when using advanced tools like this. Even if it was free it would costed pretty much the same for any medium sized org.

jajko 3y ago
Man, big corporations are often weird and way more complex than first (or tenth) look can tell. You can have a guy banking 200k a year in base salary begging his superiors to have a fast laptop for work and compilation, and request is not even rejected, just hangs indefinitely. It would pay for itself within few days with increased efficiency. Or say Java dev fruitlessly begging for intellij idea license that cost less than 1 MD. Been there, done that (in some way), now I just accept whatever boundaries are given, and let everybody know that due to this my work will take X amount of time. If they don't like it, escalate this so that management structure is aware of unreasonable expectations within given situation. If corp is so rotten that this all doesn't matter and its a long term situation, just leave such toxic place, you may feel scared of uncertainty but later you will thank yourself. Health is a finite resource and leaking fast, you often don't notice it since warning signals come way too late.
darkwater 3y ago
> Thanks for the unneeded tone. Sorry for that, it was unnecessary indeed. > But the solution that author likely uses is linkerd which is free for 50 users. And even then very likely it would be less than $1000/month. If it is too much for the org to pay, I don't think they need it. Didn't check the Linkerd plans in detail but the author says 2 grands per cluster per month. Now, even a medium org (like where I work), can have easily 10 clusters between different environments or different workloads. It's not that weird. And that would make the price already going to 20k a month which needs to be justified. Especially if you were using the same thing but not paying anything before.

jajko 3y ago

Man, big corporations are often weird and way more complex than first (or tenth) look can tell. You can have a guy banking 200k a year in base salary begging his superiors to have a fast laptop for work and compilation, and request is not even rejected, just hangs indefinitely. It would pay for itself within few days with increased efficiency. Or say Java dev fruitlessly begging for intellij idea license that cost less than 1 MD. Been there, done that (in some way), now I just accept whatever boundaries are given, and let everybody know that due to this my work will take X amount of time. If they don't like it, escalate this so that management structure is aware of unreasonable expectations within given situation. If corp is so rotten that this all doesn't matter and its a long term situation, just leave such toxic place, you may feel scared of uncertainty but later you will thank yourself. Health is a finite resource and leaking fast, you often don't notice it since warning signals come way too late.

darkwater 3y ago

> Thanks for the unneeded tone. Sorry for that, it was unnecessary indeed. > But the solution that author likely uses is linkerd which is free for 50 users. And even then very likely it would be less than $1000/month. If it is too much for the org to pay, I don't think they need it. Didn't check the Linkerd plans in detail but the author says 2 grands per cluster per month. Now, even a medium org (like where I work), can have easily 10 clusters between different environments or different workloads. It's not that weird. And that would make the price already going to 20k a month which needs to be justified. Especially if you were using the same thing but not paying anything before.