I see that your app/tool is linked on Portainer's website. What's the business model behind it ? I do not see any pricing and I could be really interested as I'm looking for a solution to abstract away k8s complexity for a medium sized company I'm working for.
Uh, every Google search already shows me sponsored links to competitors’ sites at the top of the results.
What would you say if in 5 years with Waymo, you want to go to Burger King but before taking you there, it suggests ‘hey, why don’t you go to this McDonald’s instead?’ At first you’d get a discount on your ride if you accept the suggestion, and then once everyone gets used to it, no more discounts and everyone ends up paying more than human taxis cost today.
If your tool was available on-premise I would be really interested. Since a tool like this is primarily intended, I think, for internal use cases, making it available on-premise should be a priority from my point of view.
Beside this, the tool looks great, congrats for the job, well done!
Your government will soon find a reason to sue Airbus (corruption, unfair competition, etc.) in order to extract its secrets and supply them to Boeing, and voila, Airbus' technological lead will be wiped out.
Certainly what you point out is probably part of the problem but it is, in my opinion, certainly not the biggest part.
For me, current inflation is caused by the fact that people have too much money the do not need and they invest it instead of buying goods.
This leads too more speculation on everything, stocks, cryptos, energy, real estate and even staple foods.
In the last 10 years every of those indexes has gone massively up. This has resulted in companies having share prices increasing faster than their performance would have suggested. If there's more demand for company X stocks then the price will go up even if company's performance is not so great.
And here starts the loop for me, company X employees want a slice of this cake. Their are recompensed for the higher stock price (bonuses, wage increases) and not for their "real life" performance. And now those employees have even much more money they didn't need, so what they do? They invest and speculate => loop.
While the upper middle class (and above) has became richer thanks to this (more salary, stellar investment performance, low interest rates to invest even more etc) the bottom class has lost everything, they have pretty much the same salary than 10 years ago but everything is more expensive.
Nevertheless, almost everywhere in the world, we have also seen wealth tax cuts. So those who had money to invest have now even more and those who need to be helped are helped even less because less taxes means a state less able to help them.
All of this have brought us to where we are today. Unfortunately.
Didn't even knew that Spotify wrote an article about this "methodology" thanks for sharing.
No, all you have to do is spin up your service under test, its database and the service bus/event hub/whatever you use to communicate between services.
Nowadays with Docker it's really easy and fast to spin up test instances during your test run. (4-5 LoC with a good library in C#).
Since 1 or 2 years I'm doing the exactly same thing on my projects and it works great to speed-up development process and if a bug pops in production it's really easy to add it as a future test case.
You're only attached to the input request (endpoint, query params, request body) and the response body. But that's ok because it's already a part of the contract between the API and its consumers. That's it.
Mid sized cloud companies like OVH, Scaleway, Hetzner or Infomaniak are the way to go for me.
But here's is the point that's completely missing from the article. Many choices in organisations are leaded by two wrong drivers :
- Career risk awareness : like we said in the good old days, nobody was fired for buying Sun Microsystems. Same thing applies for Azure and AWS. You're not paying the bill so why looking for a cheaper alternative that might cost you personally a lot.
- CV driven decision : on your CV it's better and more valuable to have 3 years of Azure/AWS than having 3 years on OVH/Hetzner/etc.
Finally, as a leader in an organisation, it's always easier to follow the trend rather than trying to convince your coworkers to follow you to a more "exotic" solution.
Move fast and break things like Boeing tried and failed with the 737 Max ?
That's the danger with software companies being the wealthiest ones in the world, people think that others companies should apply the same recipes and earn more money.
You can move fast with web and mobile apps, if you break something a page didn't load and someone is unable to see number of likes on his last Instagram pic of his dinner, fine, let's redeploy and it should work again.
Even Azure or AWS provide something like 99.99% SLA on their services, imagine if Boeing/Airbus/BMW/Mercedes/etc. had the same level on their products, we would have dozens of airplane crashes per day... (Okay maybe not now during the lockdown).
This culture can't and shouldn't be applied in other domains.