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This is good advice in theory but in the real employment world you are killing your own career that way. At some point you get marked as "dinosaur" that hasn't "kept up". Much better to jump on the latest tech trend.
Maybe someone here can help me figure out what I need, since the world of containers is growing faster than I can understand. I have one code base that I run on multiple servers/containers independently of each other. Think Wordpress style. I used to run it on Heroku but I switched to Dokku because it's substantially cheaper and I don't mind taking care of the infrastructure. I like Dokku but I do worry about being t…
Maybe someone here can help me figure out what I need, since the world of containers is growing faster than I can understand. I have one code base that I run on multiple servers/containers independently of each other. Think Wordpress style. I used to run it on Heroku but I switched to Dokku because it's substantially cheaper and I don't mind taking care of the infrastructure. I like Dokku but I do worry about being t…
I am in the exact same boat as you are, and would love some feedback as well! I have been considering Kubernetes so that I can allow horizontal scaling, but haven't done it yet. For my use case I am VERY well aware that Kubernetes is overkill, but I don't see a great middle ground between Dokku where I am now, and Kubernetes.
Maybe someone here can help me figure out what I need, since the world of containers is growing faster than I can understand. I have one code base that I run on multiple servers/containers independently of each other. Think Wordpress style. I used to run it on Heroku but I switched to Dokku because it's substantially cheaper and I don't mind taking care of the infrastructure. I like Dokku but I do worry about being t…
I'm mostly working with startups and small companies creating MVPs and that was their client base too. Now most of the time these are just building CRUD apps, most of the time these apps don't see heavy usage for years (maybe never). Developers love technology, love to play with new(ish) things so quite a few of us will prefer using whatever is new and hip for the next project. Now it's containers and microservices. And it feels safe, because done right, these will give you scalability. And once you convince the client/boss that you need it it's unlikely that anyone will come back in a year and say: hey, it seems that we'll never need this thing that made the development $X more expensive. (Partly because they won't know the amount.) So actually politically it is the safe choice. But professionally and cost wise it's usually worse. It's a lot better to have to transition after seeing the need (preferably from the projected growth numbers). At least you minimize the expected value of the costs (bacause YAGNI).
Maybe someone here can help me figure out what I need, since the world of containers is growing faster than I can understand. I have one code base that I run on multiple servers/containers independently of each other. Think Wordpress style. I used to run it on Heroku but I switched to Dokku because it's substantially cheaper and I don't mind taking care of the infrastructure. I like Dokku but I do worry about being t…
Maybe someone here can help me figure out what I need, since the world of containers is growing faster than I can understand. I have one code base that I run on multiple servers/containers independently of each other. Think Wordpress style. I used to run it on Heroku but I switched to Dokku because it's substantially cheaper and I don't mind taking care of the infrastructure. I like Dokku but I do worry about being t…
I manage dozens of apps for thousands of users. The apps are all on one server, its load average around 0.1. I know, it isn't web-scale. Okay, how about Hacker News? It runs on one server. Moore's Law rendered most of our impressive workloads to a golf ball in a football field, years ago.
I understand these companies needing many, many servers: Google, Facebook, Uber, and medium companies like Basecamp. But to the rest I want to ask, what's the load average on the Kubernetes cluster for your Web 2.0 app? If it's high, is it because you are getting 100,000 requests per second, or is it the frameworks you cargo-culted in? What would the load average be if you just wrote a LAMP app?
EDIT: Okay, a floating IP and two servers.