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Comment · 1 year ago
Nice write up.

Love: Ask people how they found you. Docs are the product. Be ruthlessly iterative.

Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed, it’s a trade off between an easy solution vs more complexity but with better reliability.
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Thanks! Will take a look.
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The expectation: beautiful architecture diagrams where agents flow like poetry.

The reality: distributed chaos that made me question my life choices.

Who else has lived through: • The "$$ - thinking!" messages multiplying faster than rabbits • That one agent that decides to take a vacation mid-transaction • The classic "rollback fail" that turns your elegant system into abstract art • Users wondering why it's "so slow..." while you're debugging cascade failures

What started as "just three agents talking" somehow turned into material worthy of a distributed systems PhD thesis. It's wild how quickly "simple agent communication" evolves into a master class in distributed systems, eventual consistency, and prayer-driven development.

But here's the thing - if you've never had your multi-agent system burst into flames, are you even building something interesting?

What's your favourite "expectation vs reality" moment? Share your war stories!

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Comment · 6 years ago
Hello everyone,

We love docker-compose. Especially, how it helps you to get an app, with all its dependencies, up and running in no time.

We are familiar with Kubernetes and can manage all configuration hiccups manually, however many of our users aren't and it's rather frustrating to them to migrate from compose to Kubernetes quickly without getting bogged down.

A solution that is often mentioned here is Kompose. Which we’ve tried but has left us with a lot of hoops to jump through. Mainly, we constantly had to patch bits of config here and there. It got really frustrating quick.

Our idea was to use conventions and defaults to make working between docker-compose and Kubernetes as seamless as we can.

We hope you find this useful, and let us know if you have any questions.

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