Laurel is a time tracking application for lawyers, accounts and other knowledge workers. Our infrastructure / cloud platform team is small but we build, design and manage the platform for our product engineers to build our product!
There is no cloud provider that is large that wants you building hobby apps. Google, AWS, Azure, Heroku, etc. all want you to build large apps, small apps are not their market and they actively don't want you.
Outages at CircleCI have been common since the service has been launched.
Amazon is about to lay off 18k people. Circle isn't in a unique position to my understanding. Did CircleCI lay off some group or set of really important and key personnel?
Software supply chain attacks affect everyone. Is there some way that Circle is more vulnerable to this type of attack?
I would imagine GitHub Actions and always maturing CI tooling baked into cloud providers are rapidly eroding the market share of dedicated services like CircleCI.
Hiring Devops contractors to put together any piece of infrastructure. Infrastructure is so core to your business, you always regret and have to rebuild. Tried twice now and regretted it both times.
Beowulfs were huge hacks back in the day, but are similar to most super computers. The main difference from how many think of compute clusters these days is it is managed as a single machine, so historically needed identical hardware. Parallel processing and concurrency used to be more rare :D
