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> When I was researching about this a few years ago I read some really long in-depth scathing posts about Open stack. One of them explicitly called it a childis
by 0x457 11mo ago
> When I was researching about this a few years ago I read some really long in-depth scathing posts about Open stack. One of them explicitly called it a childish set of glued together python scripts that fall apart very quickly when you get off the happy path.
And according to every ex-Amazoner I've ment: the core of AWS is a bunch of Perl scripts glued together
- apple4ever 11mo agoThat explains a lot
- ikiris 11mo agoIt doesn't matter when there's an entire amazon staff keeping it running.
- estimator7292 11mo agoI think you know as well as I do that it very much does matter. Even if you have an army of engineers around to fix things when they break, things still break.
- Spivak 11mo agoI think the point is that for Amazon it's their own code and they pay full time staff to be familiar with the codebase, make improvements, and fix bugs. OpenStack is a product. The people deploying it are expected to be knowledgeable about it as users / "system integrators" but not developers. So when the abstraction leaks, and for OpenStack the pipe has all but burst, it becomes a mess. It's not expected that they'll be digging around in the internals and have 5 other projects to work on.