eranchetz's comments

On: Ask HN: What is the next infrastructure technologe...

[eranchetz]

That is genuinely great, however it's very not common. I think the main challenge of not using those technologies might affect talents not joining companies like yours.

[gregjor → eranchetz]

It is very common. The number of virtual server instances running far outnumbers the number of k8s deployments. I don’t have a company, I freelance, doing lots of system admin. I have yet to see k8s in a production environment. I do see Docker now and then, mainly for development. As far as I can tell bare virtual servers continue to dominate, with k8s mainly used by startups.

On: How to Increase AWS EKS Availability While Using E...

[eranchetz]

This post is a great example of how k8s cluster autoscaler expanders works.

On: DoiT International Announces $100M Investment by C...

[eranchetz]

If it's the first time you hear about DoiT International you can learn more about them here:

https://cloud.withgoogle.com/partners/detail/?id=ACkb94aqVSH...

and here: https://doit-intl.com

On: Google Just Did a Pad-Left on Go (For App Engine)

[eranchetz]

It's a shame that app engine is still running on go 1.4.2, I would have understand if it was using 1.5 (since 1.6 is still quite new) but 1.4.2 still uses the old and slow GC. And now this...

[bmh_ca → eranchetz]

If you pay attention to where AppEngine is getting love these days, it's moving towards Google-accessing libraries on VMs, and becoming relatively language-agnostic. The just released Node.js libs, and other languages are coming.