K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

Post by oblio » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

otabdeveloper1 wrote: post #189

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CPU speeds haven't changed much in 10 years, and to be honest, I would argue that performance has been getting worse and is not a priority for many/most developers. The client doesn't seem to care, and just sees the 5-20 second webpage load times as totally normal (at my company/industry at least). Our applications are horrifically slow, but we're still the market leaders in our segment

> The client doesn't seem to care, and just sees the 5-20 second webpage load times as totally normal Yes, but will they tolerate 2 minute page load times? 10 minute? At some point reality kicks in and you start to have to care about the nuts-and-bolts hardware.

Post by znpy » Sat, Mar 02, 2019, 4:48 PM UTC

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> Welcome to 2019 where an "embedded" system has 1GB RAM. Thirty years ago someone could have said the same when seeing laptop computers and remembering when computer literally used to occupy whole large rooms. Come on, let's stop doing this kind of jokes, they add nothing to the discussion.

The problem is that the bottom end of 1k RAM still exists. In fact, because the main change is that it gets cheaper every year, it's even more prevalent. Just because there aren't lots of blog posts, doesn't mean that isn't a large proportion of the industry. The word 'embedded' is not well defined, but if you use it on things with 1GB of RAM, what do you call a PIC with 1K? My personal definition of embedded (which…