Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
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Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#2Drop the “Hashi”. Just Corp. It’s cleaner.
Jokes aside, it's an end of an era. Mitchell has always been one of my role models both as an amazing engineer and a really decent, humble human being. I'm really looking forward to other amazing things he's going to build.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#3Is there any one individual or group responsible for HashiCorp's switch to BSL?
From what I saw Mitchell let go of running the company and now that HashiCorp is not so cool anymore it's time to get out.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#4Looking forward to what Mitchell does next. I have always enjoyed reading his code, a fantastic role model.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#5Is there any one individual or group responsible for HashiCorp's switch to BSL? From what I saw Mitchell let go of running the company and now that HashiCorp is not so cool anymore it's time to get out.
They built a ton of value, were unable to capitalize on it (just like early Docker), and when they tried to capture the value of the thing they built it pissed off the open source ecosystem (and all the profitable companies) built on top.
They should have thought about this a long, long time ago.
I feel for the smaller companies, but I feel for big companies that come in and plunder because of open license terms.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#6The sense I always got from the outside (I don't know him personally), is that Mitchell is just a really good engineer that wants to build great products.
Nothing more.
He's honest about what he's passionate about. Hence why he went from running the company to stepping back to being an IC.
I've got a lot of respect for that.
Below is his personal website, for those who haven't read his posts.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#7It is interesting to see how hashicorp went from an underdog company with vagrant to a company to aspire for with terraform, nomad, consul, vault to something that orgs and community dread, all within a decade.
Standards that they have set are still industry wide relevant. But you can see they are on a negative path.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#8Honestly feels a bit like the end of another great company - Chef (Adam Jacob). Great tooling, built with great engineers but business realities forced it to take some unfortunate turns.
I hope Hashicorp will manage to find its stride and not end up as some bullet point in a long "solutions" portfolio of some software conglomerate.
And thank you Mitchell for all the work. Can't wait to see what is coming next from you.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#9No mention about what's next ? Hm, why.
Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
#10Drop the “Hashi”. Just Corp. It’s cleaner. Jokes aside, it's an end of an era. Mitchell has always been one of my role models both as an amazing engineer and a really decent, humble human being. I'm really looking forward to other amazing things he's going to build.
CorpyCorp could work