Software architecture will become more important. I noticed LLM’s tend to create more code than prefer re-use. This behavior increases “dark code” volume. It would be significantly less when more “proven libraries” exist with well defined and proven behavior.
I'm new to the crossplane ecosystem. Today suddenly i noticed my opentofu provider pod is failing. Upon further investigation it turns out the version i'm using has been moved behind paid wall.
I'm surprised this type of dark practice is now accepted in the industry. I'm sad.
OP here. We, from Low-ops.com, needed a way for users to get started with their private instances with minimal friction. Since it is an application platform that comes preloaded with diverse set of services, a wildcard (public) subdomain is needed.
Tech wise it is a simple nextjs app that uses AWS Route53 as store and state.
I'm working on Internal Developer Platform for private clouds. Kind of like private Heroku. It works standalone and installed fully automatic. With primary focus on Low Operations and Self-service where app developers can focus on delivering real business value instead of boilerplate tasks or waiting for other teams to plan and execute standard tasks.
We originally started supporting Low-code solution called Mendix. Now we support any type of web app that can be packaged as an OCI image.
Unfortunately commercial companies tend to work behind closed doors/gardens. We are working on Low-Ops.com and would love to fully support NextJS. Self-hosting is the future :)
I’m baffled to see so many anti-k8s sentiments on HN. Is it because most commenters are developers used to services like heroku, fly.io, render.com etc. Or run their apps on VM’s?
Reading through the homepage one part stood out: they burn through quite some laptops. I wonder, perhaps it’s related to their environment? Salpeter is probably damaging the electronics. Consumer laptops were never designed to be out on sea for such extended time.
Now… what could they do about this issue? Assuming this is the root cause of the failures.
I personally would prefer organizations to own their hardware as in the early age of internet. It was meant to be decentralized. However in the last 2 decades centralization has prevailed.
I think it is sad because look at the CrowdStrike incident earlier this week. Or outages in AWS, cloudflare etc. These are examples why decentralization would give people/organizations power and control.
This mentality of making it “someone else’s problem” with outsourcing is a fairy tale. In the end your business is at risk. Let alone the overhead and inefficiencies.
Perhaps another analogy: if one eats out every day and never learnt how to cook a meal themselves. When the situation presents itself there is no cook around. One would probably starve or resort to simple food sources like whole fruits.
With “cheap” i meant it was still affordable. If it was 10x then it would not be affordable. Just like a bottle a water costs more at the airport, internet access costs more on a plane in the sky.
Perhaps i am a bit biased i would expense the bill to the company. A few hours of work definitely pays back the prepaid internet.
As mentioned, a decade or two ago, this was not possible or very limited to the elites. I certainly dont feel or behave like an elite. So it is “affordable” to me
KLM, specially on long flights, has a free tier wifi where you can use major instant messaging without charge. If you want to surf the web, it’s pretty cheap. If i recall around 30-40 euro for a 9-10hours flight. Or pay less for an hour.
Was considering to “hack” my way out of the free tier. But paying was just too easy and it’s affordable.
Same here. I have wireguard vpn for the few times i need it to tunnel my traffic through home or need to access larger files not sync’ed with syncthing.
My nas is a Synology. Vpn is also used so that i can continue sending timemachine backups back home when i’m traveling.
I also think this is perhaps the top issue i have with Meets. The current UX does not consider the fact people share screen most of the time. having ability to go full screen to get 1 to 1 scale with some essential floating menus. Even more recent years when remote teams are the new normal.
If that is the “key” they should be transparent and explicit about it. Now it seems CF is a Mafia that realizes one of their extorted business should be squeezed to death for more cash.
Indeed. Based on what has been shared by OP, they could have a case.
If OP’s business was in fact illegal, CF should have stated it. Now it seems CF is an evil sales driving monster. A monster that grew so big it thinks it can do whatever it likes.
The sad part is that, assuming OP is not leaving out critical parts, multiple people play parts of this evil machine. I’ve seen how sales people think. But this is next level toxic culture. The second customer threats of leaving for the competition, they freak out and pull a bigger lever to destroy them. And the fact that a company allows this to happen…
I would never do business with CF. Good thing i don’t right now. Cause i will definitely take it elsewhere.
Exactly. And the name “Open” in OpenAI implies it is open. Open to the world. Open to humanity. Nothing of that came to be. It should have remained non-profit; be good for humanity (yes i know this is up for interpretation).
Is this another outlier when you reach certain scale, it’s more beneficial to roll your own? Pretty amazing what Uber has to deal with.
Also it’s not very clear from the original articles, what is the new total “cost of ownership” of this new refactored service. Like now they need to manage their own databases and the storage backing them. Or did i miss it?