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Why We’re Switching Off Airflow – Sort Of (medium.com/flyr-labs-blog)
18 points by QuislingV on May 24, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


We've got an old OpenVMS cluster at work that management has been trying to get rid of for years.

The team assigned to do this, along with the many consultants and contractors hired and fired over the years have tried just about every "modern" workflow orchestration tool you can imagine. When you put them side by side it makes you want to cry how badly everything compares to a 40+ year old system (the batch queues are built into the operating system and automagically distribute jobs to nodes in the cluster based on utilization and other metrics).

At the rate that the replacement project is going, I'm probably going to retire before they get rid of it.




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