11mo ago

I can't believe people are still using GUMBIES when there are so many better alternatives.

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Kubernetes homepage is the real life example of this.
- There are innumerable examples.
  My typical attitude is "I was fine without "latest fad" until now, I'll still be fine now that I still know nothing about it". And I forget about the whole thing. It'll probably vanish fifteen months later anyway.
  As an aside, who even makes those caricatural, utterly content free websites, and then pats themselves on the back thinking that's a job well done? They've obviously put some amount of work into those things. Is the point to make it seem like it's a cool super secret society or what?
  
  Relevant XKCD.
  
  I can relate and I'm not even an expert yet.
  
  They all look the exact same as well, like every Bootstrap site does.
  
  Stable binaries ftw
- It's my full time job handling it but I'm still not actually sure what "orchestration" is.
  
  Think like systemd is a service manager, but scale it to multiple systems (and all the kafkaesqe issues that comes with). Its super powerful because of it, supporting high availability across dataceneters and even regions with some configs of complex apps, but that's just super niche for most of us.
- I still don't know what kubernetes does and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
  
  It has the same root as the also made up word Cybernetics, hope this helps!
  
  I think it empowers the deployment of, um scalability, of the, waves arounds modular thingies... or something. In a virtual way.
- I still don't know what it is. I will keep it that way on purpose
- Is the joke not on the problem of cute names? K8s doesn't seem to do that at all. I also checked the homepage itself, and it seemed OK.
  What am I missing?

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