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Maybe they got sucked into the cool tech? I remember my first pass reading of Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Diamond Age, I was bedazzled by some of the tech … it was later readings t…

Not to mention language communities with constant supply chain attacks because its standard library story is poor, and everyone keeps reinventing new, often half-baked solutions? O…

This looks a lot less annoying than Typescript, particularly how dynamic() is a lot more useful than any() I also wonder if this works well with Ruby’s duck-typing and monkeypatchi…

In my twenties, I came across an idea from one of Ken Wilbur’s books that helped settle a conundrum for me. What happens when one wants to honor all life? Are they all equal? He ma…

What people are finding now when building agenic AI orchestrators is that they are reinventing some of the ideas behind BEAM and OTP. The big one being queues (mailboxes), but also…

Is it fair to say that Mesos is more top-down while Kubernetes is more bottom-up in scheduling approach?

That is not very insightful. Your thesis started with the idea of elastic horizontal scaling. Mesos was designed from ideas with HPC and catered to that. Large hardware capex, whic…

I build production Kubernetes and cloud infra for work. When I run Kubernetes locally, it is because I am developing operators or manifests for application workloads. Kubernetes is…

They could have chosen Mesos instead. Kubernetes had other characteristics that allowed it to be adopted far and wide besides the ability to scale horizontally.

How are resource management distinct from scheduling in Mesos?

I think people are putting together pi clusters for their homelab these days.

Not all clusters are elastic. Cloud infrastructure can be, but HPC setups before the cloud were not.

Scale isn’t the only reason. Sometimes you want resource isolation and self-healing, something that is useful if you want a personal swarm of AI agents.

I am not sure I understand this argument. Kubernetes typically runs on Linux. I use an Apple laptop, work mostly with headless Linux VMs and Kubernetes. What is a “poor man’s Linux…

A local model that can do better than Siri or Alexa as a personal or home assistant is, in my eyes, very useful. Being able to run on a phone or watch or glasses translates to me, …

I don’t know at what threshold a complicated system becomes complex. For example, at a level of scale, Kubernetes start having emergent behavior. On the other hand, it doesn’t take…

I was not trying to be exhaustive. I am sure you can come up with more characteristics.

They all influence each other to one extent or another. And, the Cynefine Framework defines “complexity” a bit differently than the intuitive way it’s often used. The simple domain…

Complexity, if it can be reduced to a single measurable dimension, is only one of several factors in a solution space. There are other properties such as, maintainability, scalabil…

Azure’s core hypervisor orchestrator was half-baked at launch and it has never been fixed. This long read blog series explains a lot for me — for example, why the FedRamp certifica…

It is not necessarily monetary or even transactional form of support. Reciprocity builds relationships. Not necessarily even code contributions. It could be professional networking…

Something I learned about being a part of an ecosystem: if you want it, you need to support it and help it stay alive. That applies to local shops as it does open source projects.

GCP encourages customers to use Class E (240.0.0.0/4) as internal IPs. That helps. What I am building won’t exhaust that, but I hear some customers are blowing through even that. P…