One can avoid container orchestration by avoiding the trend of containerizing your app.
It wastes system resources, provides half-baked replicas of OS services, reduces overall security while simultaneously making networking a total pitas.
Your cloud provider is already divvying up a racked server into your VPS's, via a hypervisor, then you install an OS on your pretend computer.
While i can see how containerized apps provide a streamlined devops solution for rare hard to configure software that needs to run on Acorn OS 0.2.3 only, it should never be the deployment solution for a public facing production web service.
I wonder how successful market pivots are, on average.
Seems like flailing to me.
How can one take money to achieve x, build plans and hire people to achieve x, and then do y instead and not fall down in the necessary interval, unless the y product happens to be a side effect of x?
It's true that some startups just randomly try other ideas when the first one doesn't work - and some of those incorrectly call that flailing a "pivot." However, that isn't the actual concept behind pivoting.
Pivots are a thing because early stage startups are often pursuing an opportunity space they are betting is just emerging. Because of this there's often little data to go on when they start and they're making educated guesses about a bunch of things from product features, primary customer, go to market and business model. The concept is that a startup should very quickly develop an MVP which enables engaging with actual customers. That engagement often reveals which initial assumptions were incorrect. Hopefully they were incorrect not because they made a dumb mistake but because the correct answer was unknowable without testing.
That testing also sometimes reveals completely new customer and/or market information about a bigger opportunity in that area leading to a pivot. This is akin to sinking temporary test wells before building an oil derrick and pipeline. Even the best geology analysis can only give a probability of oil being found in a given location. Sometimes sinking test wells reveals the oil is actually a quarter mile to the East. That isn't really a pivot but more like product/market tuning. A surprising number of times, the process of sinking those test wells to discover oil leads to discovering something different but just as good like natural gas or something even better like gold. That's a canonical pivot. Experienced founders and VCs can pretty easily tell the difference between flailing and a pivot because the pivot is motivated by actual real-world customer/market response encountered while validating the first idea.
An example might be a startup whose first guess at the right product and customer was "An expense tracking program for sales people." After building a prototype or MVP and putting it the hands of some actual salespeople, they discover that, while nice to have, it's not compelling enough to buy. However, during their field visits to observe customers using the MVP they learn that field service engineers have a different but related problem in tracking parts inventory which is a major pain point.
In Steve Blank's legendary startup class at Stanford he teaches that initially a startup should be thought of as "a temporary experiment to discover a viable business." Once product/market fit and go to market are sufficiently validated with an MVP, then the process of building the real product and company begins.
I can see that it has already eaten both your participles and your punctuation. Your user name couldn't be more apropo. However your sycophantic ramblings will not likely enhance your own bank account.
Breaking the Snowden story wasn't serious journalism for you?
I get that their culture/lifestyle take is a bit of a culture war outrage session, but their core journalism is some of the strongest in the world.
Let's flip your script:
The Guardian broke the Edward Snowden story.
The Guardian supported Assange before it was hip with the "new right" to do so.
The Guardian has more rights to the label "populist" than the recent wave of astroturf turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.
All i have ever seen on Twitter was posturing and sniping.
The fact that many folks consider social media propagation of one-sided polemics posing as news does not persuade me of the value of this sewage flow of emotion and bile.
Elon Musk uses his cudgel to attempt to topple the governments of nations.
The vast power he wields is due to a purchase: $70 billion or ao, including $13 billion in investments from an opaque fund we now know includes sanctioned oligarchs and Saudi royalty.
Using the weaknesses of democracy to destroy the democratic world, and funded by repressive types who want us to worship the raw power of money like royalty, no really; those seeking to return humanity to feudalism!
I do not see any positive side to Twitter or Facebook circa 2024.
I find it disturbing that those who seek to destroy our society is running it.
This is not populism, but merely zombie pawn-ism.
Why on earth would you stand up for a spineless man that would never stand up for you?
I thought so. I use Twitter daily and, for all its flaws, I think the "community notes" feature is pretty awesome. In fact, I like it so much I would enjoy having in on pretty much any information stream I receive.
Maybe I could even start following and possibly trusting legacy media again - if they would bother adding it.
>All i have ever seen on Twitter was posturing and sniping. The fact that many folks consider social media propagation of one-sided polemics posing as news does not persuade me of the value of this sewage flow of emotion and bile.
Then you've been looking very selectively. Also, do you include left-leaning and often hysterically hateful rants by left progressives and the hardcore woke in your idea that Twitter is mostly full of posturing, sniping and one-sided polemics?
Twitter, or now X, certainly has plenty of people doing the above from the right of the so-called spectrum, but it also has many doing the same from the left, and it used to have even more of them (people already seem to forget what kind of identity politics Twitter used to be famous for before being owned by Musk.)
Or does your specific worldview not recognize that such emotional, hysterically ideological attitudes also exist from the left?
>Using the weaknesses of democracy to destroy the democratic world
Another classic from many opponents of Trump (aside from whether one favors him or not, because many who aren't of the left also dislike him) The idea that those who do favor him are automatically "destroying" the democratic world".
Implicit behind this is the notion that democratic processes should only be allowed to count if they give majority votes to people and ideas you happen to favor, and if they don't, then well, democracy is suddenly a danger and those who used it for a certain voter mandate are dangerous ignorants who need their betters to tell them how to think.
>I do not see any positive side to Twitter or Facebook circa 2024.
Really? Nothing? So I suppose the many supporters of the progressive left and their pages/accounts on Facebook and Twitter are also negative?
>I find it disturbing that those who seek to destroy our society is running it.
Have you even paid the least attention to the specific things that many people support from candidates like Trump? For many of them, a rejection of obsessive identity politics and mistrusting claims about immigration or the economy that don't ring true are staples, and far from being unreasonable ideas that mean the end of society.
It's absurd how many people share your apparently, blindly one-side views, while attributing all evils to the supposedly monstrous other side, and then complain about how one-sidedness has taken over politics. Funny too.
Your cloud provider is already divvying up a racked server into your VPS's, via a hypervisor, then you install an OS on your pretend computer.
While i can see how containerized apps provide a streamlined devops solution for rare hard to configure software that needs to run on Acorn OS 0.2.3 only, it should never be the deployment solution for a public facing production web service.
Horses for courses.
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