Mitchell is an amazing human being. Met him in the hacking section of a conference and he was just this down to earth, really laid back dude. He was hanging out with us basically random people and didn't once bring up who he was and what he worked on.
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
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Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#52We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.
Congrats Mitchell! Thanks for all your great work, and best of luck for what's ahead.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#53We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.
Back to hacking Neopets?
-Iridium
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#54Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writings on Zig has been tremendously helpful for someone like me who is curious about it. Huge respect from a fellow IC!
The only other person I remember doing that is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)
Btw. he published a great read on how they started Autodesk https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#55Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writings on Zig has been tremendously helpful for someone like me who is curious about it. Huge respect from a fellow IC!
IC?
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#56We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.
Back to hacking Neopets? -Iridium
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Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#57Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writings on Zig has been tremendously helpful for someone like me who is curious about it. Huge respect from a fellow IC!
IC?
Individual contributor
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#58Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writings on Zig has been tremendously helpful for someone like me who is curious about it. Huge respect from a fellow IC!
IC?
Independent Consultant
(my guess)
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a weird take. If anything, Nomad, Consul and Vault are on the ascent, as the realities of the CNCF ecosystem set in for people with results to deliver.
Based on my limited experience Vault is actually becoming a niche tool. Big cloud players have been offering more limited solutions that are good enough for many if not most use cases. A few years ago as a consultant I'd unconditionally recommend Vault to my clients. If I were consulting today, I'd first ask what are they missing from KMS and Secrets Manager.
KMS? Secrets manager? Are those offered by a particular vendor or what
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
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Could you link to a few examples of the most painful PR denials?
Isn't Terraform still considered one of the better cross-cloud automation tools?