anchochilis

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   by anchochilis 6y ago

   1. Reliable rolling deployments. We didn't have these before. Yes, you can implement them without K8s (I have, at other companies) but to get the full set of features K8s provides, such as deploying N services in parallel, taking no mo
2. 62.▲
   by anchochilis 6y ago

   Ha, are you me? I really pushed for us to follow the "change-as-little-as-possible and ship to prod quickly" route. Prod is where things get hard, and it's better to find out what's hard sooner rather than later. We are
3. 63.▲
   by anchochilis 6y ago

   I work on a 3-person DevOps team that just finished migrating ~20 services from GCE vms running docker-compose to GKE. It's taken us a little over a year. Partly because K8s has a steep learning curve, but also because safely transitio
4. 64.▲
   by anchochilis 6y ago

   Mirrors are great for speed and protecting you from dependencies getting randomly deleted off the public repo, but I don't think they can protect from malicious packages. They'll just get pulled into the mirror. At my last gig (Ja
5. 65.▲
   by anchochilis 6y ago

   While this is an admirable approach in theory, I noticed you don't mention how much time (i.e., money) it takes you to implement a high-quality platform relative to people with lower quality standards. There are massive economic benefi