mhsred5

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by mhsred5 5d ago
At the end of the day, the UI on a Unix server was always shell based. That was just the best way to configure a server. (And, in some way Infrastructure as Code is an evolution of the shell scripts a unix admin would use.) Linux won on t
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by mhsred5 2y ago
At some point maybe stop outsourcing and just do the work. Boeing used to make airplanes. Now they outsource the work of "make the airplanes" and all it cost them was their reputation. Less outsourcing, more just doing the work p
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by mhsred5 3y ago
Picking a winner in such a conflict leads to unexpected behavior if ordering changes.
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by mhsred5 3y ago
Its a really well thought out way to combine schemas, templates, and data into one language. Its a superset of JSON and it provides a functional interface to validate inputs, outputs, and configurations. It integrates very nicely with go a
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by mhsred5 3y ago
CUE's validation is very strong, as long as you're ok with some level of functional programming and immutability. Despite what GPT said above, its Configure, Unify, Execute. The Execute aspect is powerful but you have to be ok wi
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by mhsred5 4y ago
The problem with using a general programming language for configuration is you end up needing to use that config in different places, in different contexts, and from different languages. So, you have to marshall out and marshall in that st
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by mhsred5 4y ago
I've read their comparison and it really feels like word salad. Having gone decently down the Cue rabbit hole, I feel that Cue is remarkable in being able to do everything I need it to do without looking significantly different than JS