What I can tell you, is that the unbelievable bloat in the complexity of our systems is going to bite us in the ass. I'll never forget when I joined a hip fintech company, and the director of eng told us in orientation that we should think of their cloud of services as a thousand points of light, out in space. I knew my days were numbered at exactly that moment. This company had 200k unique users, and they were spending a million dollars a month on CRUD. Granted, banking is its own beast, but I had just come from a company of 10 people serving 3 million daily users 10k requests a second for images drawn on the fly by GPUs. Our hosting costs never exceeded 20k per month, and the vast majority of that was cloudflare.
Deploying meant compiling a static binary and copying it to the 4-6 hardware servers we ran in a couple racks, one rack on each side of the continent. We were drunk by 11am most of the time.
Today, it's apparently much more impressive if you need to have a team of earnest, bright-eyed Stanford grads constantly tweaking and fiddling with 100 knobs in order to keep systems running. Enter kubernetes.
What I can tell you, is that the unbelievable bloat in the complexity of our systems is going to bite us in the ass. I'll never forget when I joined a hip fintech company, and the director of eng told us in orientation that we should think of their cloud of services as a thousand points of light, out in space. I knew my days were numbered at exactly that moment. This company had 200k unique users, and they were spending a million dollars a month on CRUD. Granted, banking is its own beast, but I had just come from a company of 10 people serving 3 million daily users 10k requests a second for images drawn on the fly by GPUs. Our hosting costs never exceeded 20k per month, and the vast majority of that was cloudflare.
Deploying meant compiling a static binary and copying it to the 4-6 hardware servers we ran in a couple racks, one rack on each side of the continent. We were drunk by 11am most of the time.
Today, it's apparently much more impressive if you need to have a team of earnest, bright-eyed Stanford grads constantly tweaking and fiddling with 100 knobs in order to keep systems running. Enter kubernetes.