No kidding. Using cert-manager with my DNS on cloudflare or GKE is about the easiest and most mindless and zero-friction LE implementation I’ve ever used.
The author here repeatedly claims that teams would function identically on Swarm and are wasting resources using Kubernetes.
You don’t even need to be a mid-sized team to need stuff like RBAC, service mesh, multi-cluster networking, etc.
Claiming that kubernetes only “won” because of economic pressure is only true in the most basic of sense, and claiming it as a resume padder is flat out insulting to all its actual technical merits.
The multi-tenant nature and innate capabilities is part economics of it, but operators, extensibility, and platform portability across different environments are actual technical merits.
Claiming that autoscaling is optional and not required for most production environments is at best myopic.
It also greatly undersells the operational complexity that autoscaling actually solves, versus just the reactive script based solely on CPU. Metrics pipelines, cluster-level resource constraints, and pod disruption budgets.
As far as the repeated claim that it just “works”, great. Not working is more of a function of the application not the platform.
I dunno, this whole article frames kubernetes as a massive overhead and monolithic beast rather than the programmable infrastructure that it is.
It also tries to minimize many real world needs like multi-team isolation, extensibility, and ecosystem integrations
> I dunno, this whole article frames kubernetes as a massive overhead
Author describes his context being a setup with two $83/year VPS instances - a scale so incredibly minuscule compared to typical deployments, that any of his arguments against one of the core cloud technologies fall flat.
> The regime will simple classify pro-LBQT, anti-MAGA, and anti-Trump comments as "threats to national security" or as supporting terrorism.
Did they not already?
Antifa, which doesn't exist as a formal organization, literally means "anti-fascism" and is now a terrorist organization. Of course these are the same people who want to arrest people for treason when they said "You do not have to follow illegal orders"
It's just mental gymnastics of Olympic-level proportions.
I have never used Zorin or its theme changer, but I strongly doubt it's much better than what can be accomplished by installing a third party theme, which are never that good and only resemble the mimicked operating systems in the broadest of strokes.
Shrug? Our experiences have been totally different then.
I bought an older version of Zorin, probably 15 or 16, to review for a blog, and I was totally impressed with the consistency of the theming.
To each their own, but Zorin is a cheap on-ramp for people coming from older Windows/Mac and looking for a somewhat apples-to-apples experience of Windows or Mac, with actual updates and not a bunch of ads or telemetry.
The consistency of the theming isn’t the issue, it’s that it’s just theming (unless I’m just misunderstanding). KDE or GNOME with an XP theme applied settings toggled still acts like KDE or GNOME rather than acting like XP. The resemblance is skin-deep.
Good theming is great to have, but what’s more important is that the user’s prior experience and muscle memory still applies, e.g. the task manager can be summoned in the same ways, settings panels are structured similarly (and aren’t either overflowing or too stripped down like KDE and GNOME, respectively), key shortcuts are the same with no caveats, etc.
Protecting it before generic is fine, but the pricing doesn't make sense.
If it's $1000 per month cost per person when it's the name brand, how many people are on it? At this point just the diabetics and people with really good insurance?
Wouldn't they make a hell of a lot more money selling it for $100 during their protected period to 1000x the people.
True, but also still absurdly high. Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly cost roughly $500 monthly... but the price is almost the same regardless of the dosage (from say 0.5mg to 2.4mg).
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