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Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by sofixa »

sepositus wrote: post #32
danw1979 wrote: post #5

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Yeap we did. I wrote it off around the time of the licence change, just after they decided to ditch the TF Team plan in favour of the utterly ridiculous “Resources Under Management” billing model. I knew the company had lost the plot at that point.

This is probably inaccurate, but it seemed like they wrote it off as a safe move, with their main competitor, Pulumi, getting away with it. However, to play devil's advocate, the number of Terraform resources is a (slightly weak) predictor for resource consumption. Every resource necessitates API calls that consume compute resources. So, if you're offering a "cloud" service that executes Terraform, it's probably a de…

> forces people to adopt anti-patterns to limit costs

The previous pricing model, per workspace, did the same. Pricing models are often based on "value received", and therefore often can be worked around with anti-patterns (e.g. you pay for Microsoft 365 per user, so you can have users share the same account to lower costs).

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by OJFord »

nightpool wrote: post #158
OJFord wrote: post #113

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$terraform console >var.whatever "its value" >whatever_resource.foo.whatever_attr "its value" If you mean somehow printing things when the configuration is being applied... I think you just need to understand that it's neither a procedural language (it's declarative) nor general-purpose (it's infrastructure configuration).

This works great for toy examples and fails the moment you have 1 (one) module

It doesn't fail, but you're right you can't reach inside submodules with terraform console; I wish you could.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by jtimdwyer »

jmholla wrote: post #144
goodoldneon wrote: post #101

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IIRC, the lifecycle hook only prevents destruction of the resource if it needs to be replaced (e.g. change an immutable field). If you outright delete the resource declaration in code then it’s destroyed. I may be misremembering though

I'm pretty sure you are. I've had it protect me from `terraform destroy`.

I think the previous post is saying a resource removed from a configuration file rather than an invocation explicitly deleting the resource in a command line. Of course if it’s removed from the config file, presumably the lifecycle configuration was as well!

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by NetOpWibby »

scrapcode wrote: post #104
NetOpWibby wrote: post #67

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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?

Who knows? I wish the hiring team remembered that real-life people are looking for work because they have bills to pay and regular communication is necessary.

Two months ago a founder reached out to me, gave me a coding project, I completed it (and got paid!), spoke with his co-founder, and then...nothing. At least I got paid but man, YOU reached out to ME. I don't get it.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by NetOpWibby »

simonh wrote: post #129
scrapcode wrote: post #104

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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.

Those two should at least get told they didn't make it.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by morkalork »

schmichael wrote: post #110

I 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…

No matter how long you worked at the acquiree and instrumental you were, be prepared for your opinions to be overridden by IBM lifers because you're not "true blue" (ie. directly to IBM). Also prepare for the bluewashing!

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by NetOpWibby »

hashicorporal wrote: post #132
NetOpWibby wrote: post #67

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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...

That sucks and I apologize this happened to you.

It is what it is.

I ended up having to move out of my hometown (Boston) to stay with my wife's friend's family and now we live in CA. I have a delicious loquat tree in my backyard so things worked out, haha!

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Post by iwontberude »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #139
thisisnotauser wrote: post #137

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I've had the incredible displeasure of having to maintain multiple massive legacy COTS systems that were once designed by promising startups and ultimately got bought by IBM. IBM turned every last one into the shittiest enterprise software trash you can imagine. Every IBM product I've ever used is universally reviled by every person I've met who also had to use it, without exaggeration in the slightest. If anything,…

How is Red Hat going after the acquisition by IBM? From my view, it is going well. The enterprise product (RHEL) is still excellent.

RHEL has had no significant investment to keep it from becoming irrelevant in the next five years. The datacenter and deployments of linux have changed so rapidly (mostly due to the new centralization and homogeneity of infrastructure investment) that RHELs niche is rapidly shrinking.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by skissane »

jcgrillo wrote: post #118
skissane wrote: post #21

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> These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay. You aren’t the target market for their “bloviations” - they are targeted at executives, and it isn’t like the executive pays this out of their own pocket, there is a budget and it comes out of the budget. Plus these reports generally aren’t aimed at technical people with…

Anyone prioritizing this nerfed, mindless dogshit over what their team is telling them and what's going on in the world around them is both an incompetent leader and a total idiot

A lot of the people paying for these analyst firm reports are sales people-so they can pass them on to their customers/prospects (to legally do that you often have to pay extra for “redistribution rights”)… and then the customer/prospect gets to read it for free

Who might not have much of an engineering team, or not one with relevant expertise… and why should they trust the vendor’s engineering team? If they are about to sign a contract for $$$, being able to find support for it in an independent analyst report can psychologically help a lot in the sales cycle

While the most useful reports for sales are those which directly compare products, like Gartner Magic Quadrant or Forrester Wave - a powerful tool if you come out on top - these kind of more background reports can help if the sales challenge is less “whose product should I buy?” and more “do I even need one of these products? should we be investing money in this?”

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by [deleted] »

kaushikt wrote: post #166
mistrial9 wrote: post #152

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I spoke with a guy (too long ago) that was a "genius architect" and worked for a company that was small enough, that he got to implement his castles in the air. Knowing him, they might have been quite good, but it was one person that knew the details and made changes at the architect scale. He had a quirky way of thinking. When IBM acquired that company, after a few weeks, this guy had a meeting with new engineering…

If you are a good at your job and want to deliver fast then you need to adapt to changing circumstances and continue on. Nothing wrong if you can’t but I have learnt that’s how you play along to deliver your best continuously.

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