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That as you age an hour is extremely valuable. You only have so many. Don't waste them on bullshit.

I was being paid to do the same in 1999!

A comparison of Serverless to any kind of compute that uses line-item comparison and, crucially, doesn't mention Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the latter is flawed.

To conclude that Serverless is more expensive one would have to compare the calculated TCO of managing EC2 against the line-item cost of Lambda.

The article is also operating at the small change end of the spectrum where cost differences are basically noise. Replacing the TCO of operating a thousand instances with the line-item cost of lambda would be an improved analysis.

I was once asked by a visting American friend why there was so much trash (rubbish) in London. I answered that it was because there weren't very many trash cans at all.

"Then why don't they install some? Perhaps people would respect their environment a little more".

"Because the IRA put bombs in them".

+1 for Wavefront. I've been a user since their pre-launch beta and have nothing but good things to say about the product and the team.

Their billing is based on rate not count, which is a better model IMHO.

Terraform does not handle data locality. Since compute generally sits next to data for latency and cost reasons one should first think about how to ensure that their (perhaps considerable) data set is stored and synchronised elsewhere before worrying about which infrastructure manifest tool to use.

I suppose my point is ultimately that they're not goals, they're requirements, and they are often imposed from the outside by legal or other official bodies. In that context caring doesn't really come into it. In terms of the vendors of shitty enterprise software (and attempting to answer your original question), if you've spent a bunch of time, money and effort making the Venn diagram of certifications and industry accreditations and implementing niche proprietary licensed file formats converge into your product you may not have either the willing, cash, or capability to produce quality software with flavour-of-the-month UX too.

You may find this comment on a previous thread an interesting counterpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17580793

I think it is more to do with the fact that "enterprise" software vendors have done the boring legwork of ticking all of the necessary multi-jurisdiction legal tick-boxes, implement that one insane export format, provide reports required just-so by a given regulator and so-on. The value they provide to the business is outside of the software in that sense.

I too am excited to hear more. The necessity for kube2iam and kaim are one of the major blockers that have prevented us from considering EKS for a client, the major sticking point being that they move the implementation of shipping security material around from the AWS to the customer side of the shared responsibility model.

2c from my experience.

Fluentd is a terrible log shipper: sub-second timestamping is not yet supported in the stable build, support is patchy in the plugin ecosystem in 0.14. There's also some humdingers buried in the source (Rational numbers for time arithmetic?) Abstractions leak all over the place. The plugin ecosystem is weak and the API shims in the minor version API break are poor and in my experience break semver.

Prometheus has the right idea, but I wouldn't want to be running and scaling my telemetry system if I'd also taken on the burden of running my own container scheduler. Whilst I've no doubt Prometheus can be made to scale, I'd rather somebody else made the federation decisions for me.

Facebook PXE boot to Anaconda, use Chef to provision the host and then ultimately use their own scheduler to execute a workload.

Without presumption of your nationality, but mentioned here because of "expanding acronyms", I've noticed that North Americans almost exclusively seem to use an acronym and then explain it, whilst the rest of the English speaking world does the proper thing of using a term and then introducing an acronym to abbreviate.

I've always wondered what guys like you did for a backup strategy. Is the "master" for Renegade Master or I'm Alive only on some shitty DD floppy somewhere?

What about Liam Howlett? Aphex Twin?

liquidprompt https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt is another viable alternative.