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I have a very naive question: if everything expands, why aren’t planets also expanding and why isn’t any molecular structure expanding as well? In other words, what does expand the universe yet prevents the planets (and us) from also expanding with it?

Lua + LuaJIT has been a great combination when it comes to Kong[1] which I believe is the largest open source OpenResty application. Not only we can leverage the underlying NGINX networking primitives for fast non blocking IO, we can also hook into each request and response via Lua to provide APIM functionality and run the whole thing on the piece of art that is LuaJIT[2] created by the legendary Mike Pall.

I have to admit it does have its quirks (Lua lists have a base index of 1 instead of 0), but so far it's been phenomenal. As far as I know, Cloudflare is also leveraging the same stack (OpenResty) for their global CDN.

Disclaimer: I am a Kong contributor.

[1] - https://github.com/Kong/kong

[2] - https://luajit.org/

The contributors and maintainers of the project will decide the roadmap, like for any other CNCF project.

Kuma is an open governance project, so you can get involved, contribute and even become a maintainer: https://github.com/Kong/kuma/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md

The best way to get involved is by joining the bi-weekly calls as well as the community channels like Slack and GitHub: https://kuma.io/community/

Yahoo! Pipes tried this more than a decade ago, it's interesting to see that the dream of "apps my mom could build" never dies.

Except most people want to be consumers of applications, not creators. And those who really want to be creators they learn how to code. So, like with Pipes, I am not really sure who is the target audience here.

Microsoft Popfly[1] was another one from back in the days.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly

I am european, and police in the US really is something else: the mindset, the culture, the engagements. There needs to be a nation-wide police reformation.

For what is worth, OpenResty has proven to be a very solid foundation for Kong. We did have to build some foundations for when it comes to setting up testing and project management in the early days, but the flexibility and performance we are able to achieve (especially when running on top of LuaJIT) is just best in class.

If you want to take a look at a fairly large (maybe the largest?) OpenResty application you can take a look at https://github.com/Kong/kong

Disclaimer: I am CTO at Kong

This is laughable, since the government also created an artificial taxi monopoly that benefitted no one but a small subset of people.

Uber is a godsend to millions of people and drivers around the world, to say otherwise in order to drive your political agenda it’s akin to living under a rock.

And if you want some proof, just ask every Uber driver if they would be sad or happy if the service disappeared tomorrow and hear their answers. There is a world out there that lives and thrives thanks to companies like Uber.

Wrong. Uber made the market bigger and a result to that there are more people overall working for the transportation industry. It’s not like every Uber driver would have been a taxi driver if Uber didn’t exist..

Nobody is forced to work for Uber and the like, restaurants can also ban these services.

It’s a drug crisis.

But why? Just let the market do its thing:

- if a market player wants to sell goods or services at a loss, let them do it and it benefits the consumer

- if the competition goes out of business and the prices are raised, somebody else will see the opportunity to enter the market at a lower cost.

Rinse and repeat. The consumers benefit from it either way.

You are not factoring in the economies of scale that will kick in if Waymo really figures out autonomous driving. It will change the world forever, and the costs will go down.

> I'm okay with some number of criminals not being in prison.

And this right here is what’s wrong with San Francisco. You literally support death and crime on what - over the years - costed (and still costs) the city billions of dollars and countless of dead bodies with no tangible results and yet living in a lawful society - like the rest of the world does - is somehow too expensive for you?

The FBI even arrested the guy in charge of the homeless budget for corruption a few months ago (Nuru Mohammed, our dear mayor London Breed's ex-boyfriend, who also used the city funds to pay for Breed’s personal car repairs), and yet all is fine. I guess we don’t put criminals in prison, we elect them: the San Francisco way.

In the meantime people die, but it is an acceptable externality. Cruelty at its finest.

We have been blowing up hundreds of millions of dollars on existing vanity projects for 40 years [1] we might as well try something new and - perhaps - enforce some law and order in a lawless and dangerous city.

None of the existing policies are helping moving the needle on crime, while arresting drug dealers and deporting illegal aliens that perform criminal activities will help with the goal of having less criminals and less drugs in the streets.

My son - native San Franciscan - dodges needles every day at the park. What happens if he gets hurt or catches a disease? Do you think this is the future he deserves? Criminals belong to prison.

[1] - https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21027974/san-francisco-home...

Illegal immigrants do not have lawful ways to find a job. They will either get abused in one way or another, or they will start looking at illegal activities to survive (ie, drug dealing).

Encouraging illegal immigration - like you are suggesting by enabling them to come to San Francisco - not only is dangerous for the community but it is first and foremost dangerous for those people who come here thinking it's paradise on earth and end up being taken advantage of.

You are irresponsible. There are reasons why there are lawful ways to immigrate, it is not a game.

They do refuse housing when it is being offered. In addition to this San Francisco does not cooperate with ICE to deport illegal aliens which make the housing problem worse.

Do you agree that if they do refuse housing we need to do something about it? Do you also agree that we should start taking action in making more housing available by at least deporting illegal aliens?

It is obvious by now - after 40 years - that the current strategy does not work, don't you agree with this statement?

So - as a result of your logic - you suggest that we allow crime and illegal aliens?

We know it does make an impact because the police department regularly arrests them (since they cause negativities in the community) and regularly the courts release them so that they can go back to the same street corner to keep selling death.

San Francisco truly is a law-less place.

Perfect, if we determine that housing is an important cause, then can we:

* Enact consequences for those that do refuse housing when available (ie, banning homeless lifestyle).

* Arrest illegal aliens that are making the lack of housing even worse.

* Stop open-air drug dealing and abuse so that people can get back on their feet.

And if not, why not?

If there is no housing available, then why are illegal immigrants tolerated which would arguably make the problem worse? It makes no sense.

Well for starters, not allowing open air drug dealing and arresting illegal drug dealers in the streets. Cooperating with ICE, and so on. Starting to take action against homeless that do refuse housing because they enjoy the homeless lifestyle, which in turn will make it less attractive for non-native homeless to come to San Francisco.

> But there are many reasons why the region could finally be experiencing a shrinking population:

And yet the author is missing the elephant in the room: the incredibly deteriorating living conditions in a city crammed with drug addicts, human feces and casual violent aggressions at all hours of the day. A city that enables the "homeless lifestyle" without any accountability. Homelessness is - for the most part in San Francisco - a choice and/or a result of mental illness and drug addiction.

There is of course a certain amount of people that do become homeless because of lack of housing, but for the most part the city administration has been gaslighting us on the real causes: drug addiction and homeless lifestyle.

Most of them are not even native from San Francisco, but they come from elsewhere. I suggest everybody reads this article to learn more about the long history of criminality in San Francisco, enabled by the city officials: https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness

Edit: Everybody in San Francisco talks about the rights of the homeless, but where are my rights as a lawful tax payer who cannot bring his son to the park without risking his life by stepping on a needle?

The stock price.

That's not true: given enough time decomposing organic material will create new oil reserves, while all the metals excavated are still right here on the surface of the Earth used every day by us (cars, phones, ...) and ready to re-enter the surface once we are done using them.

Although I understand the fear that many have of being left behind the technology curve by not having the time - or the chance - to run Kubernetes in their day to day work, we really must appreciate that Kubernetes really is the future of infrastructure. For those that are looking at Kubernetes with suspicion, it is a natural instinct to think of K8s as a threat to all the knowledge we have built in the past few years, but it doesn't have to be that way. So many things that we would have built ourselves (deployments, upgrades, monitoring, etc) can now be streamlined with K8s, and existing knowledge around those topics will just make our transition to Kubernetes faster (besides still being able to use most of our expertise within K8s anyways).

Managed solutions make K8s easy to use, while we can still benefit from being able to run out workloads left and right on any cloud vendor. In one word: portability. Which in the day and age of cloud vendor lock-in it is to be protected at all cost.

I know that some organizations allow to allocate time to explore new technologies and learn new practices. If your organization has no policy around this, it is worth try asking. Ultimately it will benefit the organization and the business as a whole, as they will be able to build a solid foundation to more rapidly transition and execute on their digital products. Kubernetes is good for business.

Italy is a country of 60M+ people and the 8th largest economy in the world, with a very high national debt and that significantly relies on tourism for its economy. Above and beyond the Coronavirus, this can terribly affect the long-term solvency of the country.

If you need more capabilities you can also frontend your Lambdas with something like Kong[1]. ALBs and AWS API Gateway can be quite slow and constrained if performance - and a customizable feature set - are important requirements.

[1] https://github.com/Kong/kong

> you loose all the self healing stuff and loadbalancing capability.

I mean, yes? You can either build your own for “free”, or pay for the value-add features DO provides that you have described. I don’t see where the problem is.

Wouldn't that make an ever stronger case for a previous civilization? An advanced civilization would build things, use them day to day, and eventually they would just collapse again on the surface of the Earth.

Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

And I also remember its competitor, Microsoft Popfly [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly