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Wait... Lidl has a cloud service now?

by pier25 6mo ago

walthamstow 6mo ago
The things you can find in the middle aisle!
apparatur 6mo ago
Sure and it's on SALE right now if you have the customer loyalty card!
storus 6mo ago
Schwarz seems to be obsessed with how Amazon (book seller) created AWS and they are trying to do the same... with 5 people. Also Aleph Alpha + Cohere is a Lidl work as the current CEO of the former led Lidl digital division.
- scandox 6mo ago
  So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
  - ambicapter 6mo ago
    Lidl is a grocery store chain, I'm assuming GP was talking about the amount of people actually working on the cloud.
    - scandox 6mo ago
      Lidl has 375,000 employees. They have stated they employ 7,500 people in their digital services division.
    - avra 6mo ago
      Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland are store chains, with 14200 stores combined. 7500 employees is just Schwarz Digits, the digital services division.
    - deleted 6mo ago
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  - ivan_gammel 6mo ago
    Schwarz Gruppe includes Schwarz Digits, which include StackIT. 7500 is the number of employees at Digits, which also includes online marketplaces like Kaufland e-commerce, so definitely not all of them work on the sovereign cloud.
- deleted 6mo ago
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- wasmitnetzen 6mo ago
  Lidl famously blew 500M on a failed SAP project, so they're understandably a bit into running things themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092
  - pronik 6mo ago
    But they had the guts to back away. Not everyone does.
kodama-lens 6mo ago
Yeah, kind of. Lidl and Kaufland is owned by the Schwarz Group. They have been busy replicating the AWS orgin story. Their cloud is called StackIT. I've worked with them. Still some room to grow but a solid foundation. I like that competition is back on
- martijnvds 6mo ago
  Is it fully custom, or are they using a flavor of OpenStack or similar?
  - MaKey 6mo ago
    They have their own API but under the hood it's OpenStack.
tcp_handshaker 6mo ago
Its terrible...just go and try to open an account...it broken from the start https://accounts.stackit.cloud/ui/login/user https://accounts.stackit.cloud/ui/login/user
- janmarsal 6mo ago
  You need to download the lidl+ app. great value
lifestyleguru 6mo ago
> Lidl has a cloud service now? Yes, when you pay you have to print a receipt with QR code, and then have to scan it to log out.
- dzhiurgis 6mo ago
  And don't forget to always carry 50 cent roman coin if you want to log in
KronisLV 6mo ago
Decent amount of features but definitely way more expensive than what you can get on Hetzner: https://stackit.com/en/prices/cloud https://stackit.com/en/prices/cloud

Wait... Lidl has a cloud service now?

by pier25 6mo ago

Wait... Lidl has a cloud service now?

walthamstow 6mo ago

The things you can find in the middle aisle!

apparatur 6mo ago

Sure and it's on SALE right now if you have the customer loyalty card!

storus 6mo ago

Schwarz seems to be obsessed with how Amazon (book seller) created AWS and they are trying to do the same... with 5 people. Also Aleph Alpha + Cohere is a Lidl work as the current CEO of the former led Lidl digital division.

scandox 6mo ago
So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
- ambicapter 6mo ago
  Lidl is a grocery store chain, I'm assuming GP was talking about the amount of people actually working on the cloud.
  - scandox 6mo ago
    Lidl has 375,000 employees. They have stated they employ 7,500 people in their digital services division.
  - avra 6mo ago
    Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland are store chains, with 14200 stores combined. 7500 employees is just Schwarz Digits, the digital services division.
  - deleted 6mo ago
    [deleted]
- ivan_gammel 6mo ago
  Schwarz Gruppe includes Schwarz Digits, which include StackIT. 7500 is the number of employees at Digits, which also includes online marketplaces like Kaufland e-commerce, so definitely not all of them work on the sovereign cloud.
deleted 6mo ago
[deleted]
wasmitnetzen 6mo ago
Lidl famously blew 500M on a failed SAP project, so they're understandably a bit into running things themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092
- pronik 6mo ago
  But they had the guts to back away. Not everyone does.

kodama-lens 6mo ago

Yeah, kind of. Lidl and Kaufland is owned by the Schwarz Group. They have been busy replicating the AWS orgin story. Their cloud is called StackIT. I've worked with them. Still some room to grow but a solid foundation. I like that competition is back on

martijnvds 6mo ago
Is it fully custom, or are they using a flavor of OpenStack or similar?
- MaKey 6mo ago
  They have their own API but under the hood it's OpenStack.

tcp_handshaker 6mo ago

Its terrible...just go and try to open an account...it broken from the start https://accounts.stackit.cloud/ui/login/user https://accounts.stackit.cloud/ui/login/user

janmarsal 6mo ago
You need to download the lidl+ app. great value

lifestyleguru 6mo ago

> Lidl has a cloud service now? Yes, when you pay you have to print a receipt with QR code, and then have to scan it to log out.

dzhiurgis 6mo ago
And don't forget to always carry 50 cent roman coin if you want to log in

KronisLV 6mo ago

Decent amount of features but definitely way more expensive than what you can get on Hetzner: https://stackit.com/en/prices/cloud https://stackit.com/en/prices/cloud