Puppet and Chef are still broadly used, but much less so in younger companies, and they're Boring Technology now -- so they'll be underrepresented in the kind o

Puppet and Chef are still broadly used, but much less so in younger companies, and they're Boring Technology now -- so they'll be underrepresented in the kind of companies that HN likes, that give conference talks, and so on. Overall I think the declarative nature of Puppet and Chef lend themselves more to still automated, but longer-lived, nodes. Not quite pets, but things that stick around for more than one deploy.