IBM has been on a shopping spree of garbage companies. Which tools are next?
Atlassian?
Seems too big. Market cap is 1/3 of IBM's.
IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
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Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
#122I joined HashiCorp in 2016 to work on Nomad and have been on the product ever since. Definitely a lot of feelings today. When I joined HashiCorp was maybe 50 people. Armon Dadgar personally onboarded us one at a time, and showed me how to use the coffee maker (remember to wash your own dishes!). There have been a lot of ups (IPO) and downs (BUSL), but the Nomad team and users have been the best I've ever gotten to wo…
There are no resources and opportunities after being acquired by IBM. I worked for Red Hat when they were acquired. Our former CEO was quickly shown the door. We were making so much profit, almost a $1B in quarterly revenue. I left not long after the acquisition. Not long after I left, they laid off a bunch of staff. No matter what they tell you, your day to day will not improve. For my area, it was mostly business a…
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really wanted to work at HashiCorp in 2017/2018 and did five interviews in one day only to get ghosted[1]. That experience soured me on HC and its tools but I still admired them from afar. End of an era. --- [1]: https://blog.webb.page/2018-01-11-why-the-job-search-sucks.t...
What do you expect is the reason this happens? I would suspect your skill assessment after a handful of interviews is sound and most people liked you. Do you think you just run into a person eventually that doesn't vibe?
I read this as the GHOSTING is the thing that bother them. After a full day of interviews, it sounds like. The failure to be hired doesn't sound like it bothers them to me.
Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
#124I joined HashiCorp in 2016 to work on Nomad and have been on the product ever since. Definitely a lot of feelings today. When I joined HashiCorp was maybe 50 people. Armon Dadgar personally onboarded us one at a time, and showed me how to use the coffee maker (remember to wash your own dishes!). There have been a lot of ups (IPO) and downs (BUSL), but the Nomad team and users have been the best I've ever gotten to wo…
I worked with a bunch of people who had worked at a startup that got bought by IBM. As the other commenters attested, they too experienced that IBM is not the kind of company that's going to turn on the investment taps.
There are worse companies to get bought by, but if you've only ever worked at startups then you're not likely to enjoy what this becomes.
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#125Sad to see this, but I will again shill for HashiCorp's Nomad as a better alternative to Kubernetes.
Having worked with a very large Nomad cluster, I cannot disagree more. For simple use cases, sure, but you could also just use AWS ECS or a similar cloud tool for an even easier experience.
Can you quantify “very large”?
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what happens if you forget to free a pointer in c? Assuming you mean 'forget' to free malloc'd space referenced by at least one pointer, that's an easy one .. it's reclaimed by the OS when the process ends. Whether that's a bad thing or not really depends on context - there are entire suites of interlocked processing pipelines built about the notion of allocating required resources, throughputing data, and terminat…
surely my salient point is recognized regardless of semantics, but thanks for the correction. To use another example in another post - what happens if you DROP TABLE in sql?
What happens is that you call Iron Mountain and find out that those tapes don't actually have anything useful on them.
Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
#127People who stayed at IBM because they could not afford going anywhere else.
People who worked at companies acquired by IBM and could not afford going anywhere else.
A mixture of both will be involved from now on in decision making regarding your platform formation core products.
Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
#128Hashicorp's stuff always struck me as pretty hacky with awkward design decisions. For Terraform (at least a few years ago) a badly reviewed PR could cause catastrophic data loss because resources are deleted without requiring an explicit tombstone. Then they did the license change, which didn't reflect well on them. Now it's being sold to IBM, which is essentially a consulting company trying to pivot to mostly undiff…
An easy way to get someone to admit that terraform is a hacky child’s language is to ask how to simply print out the values of variables and resources you are using in terraform easily. This basic programming language 101 functionality is not present in the language
HCL isn’t a programming language. This seems to be the main misconception about it and Terraform.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really wanted to work at HashiCorp in 2017/2018 and did five interviews in one day only to get ghosted[1]. That experience soured me on HC and its tools but I still admired them from afar. End of an era. --- [1]: https://blog.webb.page/2018-01-11-why-the-job-search-sucks.t...
What do you expect is the reason this happens? I would suspect your skill assessment after a handful of interviews is sound and most people liked you. Do you think you just run into a person eventually that doesn't vibe?
If the company gets 30 applicants, 10 of which go to the final round and 7 of those are really good, if they only have 5 openings then 2 really good applicants are not getting offers.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who the heck is IDC's customer base, exactly? $2,500 for that, or $7,500 for this one about – drumroll, please – feature flags! "Modern digital businesses need to be able to adapt to changing end-user demand, and since feature flags decouple release from deployment, it provides a good solution for improving software development velocity and business agility," said Jim Mercer, program vice president of IDC Software De…
Relatively few IDC clients are paying retail for single reports other than reprint rights. They're clients with broad employee access to events and reports in various areas. Had access for many years and, yes, having (supposedly validated) data is more or less essential for lots of presentations and other types of documents because, otherwise, your claims are viewed as pulling stuff out of you rear end.
So if you just point to something an IDC - analyst? has pulled of their rear end... is alright? ;-)