$5/month isn't $5/month. It's convincing your boss you need $5/month, because they need to convince their boss, which eventually makes its way up the chain to C-levels, who don't know Docker from yesterday's rotting tuna casserole and view eating either that or the $5/month with the same level of disdain. It isn't about the money, it's about the Mommy-May-I up and down the chain with emails and meetings and careful e…
If your C suite is personally approving a $5/month charge, your organization is likely no where near the size where a change like this from Docker impacts you.
For me it’s not the c-suite, it’s the admins who make purchases. Or the hassle of maintaining a corporate card.
You’re missing the point. If there’s a news source that you occasionally read then it’s far more cost effective for you to just buy the paper at the stand for 50¢ the few times you want it. Same with magazines. If you read every newspaper then getting lower cost and delivery in return for the paper getting consistent revenue is a good deal for both parties. If you get your news like most people, via link aggregators…
It would be neat if news sites would start offering 50 cent day passes instead of difficult to cancel subscriptions.
I sort of half thought apple news might go that way. might not be cost effective - bundling larger subscription stuff is probably more revenue/profit.
But... in their news app, there's always a couple of interesting articles I might want to read, but I'm not signing up. They have my info, and a Touch ID device I'm holding tied to my payment info. "Read this article for 50c?" I'd certainly give some a read now and then.
I originally came here to ask how folks use that many docker images in six hours (I'm mostly a Docker n00b, and not being facetious); however, after reading the article, I clicked to see how much unlimited is and it's $5 a month. Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? Or what are the use cases where the cost is prohibitive? Open source or community projects? In…
Developers are cheap. “I could build that” is your competitor
I originally came here to ask how folks use that many docker images in six hours (I'm mostly a Docker n00b, and not being facetious); however, after reading the article, I clicked to see how much unlimited is and it's $5 a month. Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? Or what are the use cases where the cost is prohibitive? Open source or community projects? In…
Anything is a deal breaker if the user expects to pay nothing. That is why going from free to $1/month will have a much larger user dropoff than, say, $1 to $10.
Providing objective, non-biased events would be very hard. Consider for example the current riots going on in the US. How do you objectively report on that? With bias, on one side you have "peaceful protest disrupted and escalated by the police", on the other side you have "police intervening in riots to maintain order and protect property". There's not really inbetween.
"Protesters say their peaceful assembly has been disrupted and escalated by the police. The police argue they've only been intervening in riots to maintain order and protect property." Done.
If you have to represent "both sides" (in many cases there'll be more than two sides really), you end up having to give a voice to nutjobs, plus you present both sides as equally valid assessments.
Much as we'd all love an "unbiased" news source, the reality is that bias is a very hard problem to solve well.
Just to add all the major cloud service providers provide registries ACR /ECR/GCR etc . If you run k8s service with one of the them in my experience it is best to use the corresponding registry. I have pulled and run 20k times a 1GB image in less than 10-15 minutes without breaking a sweat. Finally GitHub packages offers a registry out of the box . It is great for CI and devs to access . I generally have the tags mir…
Looking at doing GitHub Packages for direct-to-dev and mirroring into ECR over here. Seems sound. But also considering other options as ECR is a pain to work with. That said, word of warning for anyone looking at GitHub Packages for docker registry: it's broken with containerd and some other similar tools. They (GitHub) are currently working on a fix: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/3291
I got set up with ECR without any difficulties whatsoever. You do have to authenticate before pulls and pushes, but that can be scripted very easily.
I originally came here to ask how folks use that many docker images in six hours (I'm mostly a Docker n00b, and not being facetious); however, after reading the article, I clicked to see how much unlimited is and it's $5 a month. Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? Or what are the use cases where the cost is prohibitive? Open source or community projects? In…
Developers are cheap. “I could build that” is your competitor Note could, not will
Developers are overly optimistic, undervalue their time (they don't know the loaded-cost of their time), and overvalue their solutions (they rarely account for maintenance costs or the long-tail of time to perfect the solution). So developers think they are cheap. For example, I had an engineer express disgust that we might have to pay $4/month-per-user for gitlab just to have mirroring enabled. He said "we can do our own mirroring." When asked how long it would take he said, "between 2 hours to two-weeks if we have to iron out bugs". So when accounting for his time, his price to deliver ranged between $200-ish in the best-case scenario, to $8000-ish in the worst-case scenario (which far exceeds the cost of paying for the licenses). Needless to say, we paid for the licenses. He also wasn't considering the opportunity-cost, i.e., what will he NOT do that's more valuable while he works on this proposed solution that we could just pay for?
I originally came here to ask how folks use that many docker images in six hours (I'm mostly a Docker n00b, and not being facetious); however, after reading the article, I clicked to see how much unlimited is and it's $5 a month. Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? Or what are the use cases where the cost is prohibitive? Open source or community projects? In…
$5/month isn't $5/month. It's convincing your boss you need $5/month, because they need to convince their boss, which eventually makes its way up the chain to C-levels, who don't know Docker from yesterday's rotting tuna casserole and view eating either that or the $5/month with the same level of disdain. It isn't about the money, it's about the Mommy-May-I up and down the chain with emails and meetings and careful e…
This "up-and-down chain" should stop pretty quickly at the level where eng mgmt knows loaded costs. It's an eng manager and director's job to compute total-cost-to-execute, and opportunity cost (using loaded-costs for engineer time). They should be able to approve once you've convinced them that it's cheaper to buy than to build.
Engineers can head this off by prepping a total-cost-to-execute analysis for mgmt. This doesn't need to be complicated. It's just some estimates of what's needed and why, and what the alternatives cost. My eng VP used to ask me for these when I'd send up a request. He wanted to know that we thought about total-cost-to-execute. He'd usually only read the exec summary and approve. If these requests are really going that far up the mgmt chain either someone isn't doing their job, or higher level mgmt are micromanagers.