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Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by regularfry »

anonfordays wrote: post #321
regularfry wrote: post #300

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"Operationally mature" is code here for "the gun starts out loaded and pointed at your foot". It's fine to point out that that's a suboptimal design for a tool.

>Operationally mature" is code here for "the gun starts out loaded and pointed at your foot" No, it's code for "don't build a load bearing bridge if you don't understand structural engineering." > It's fine to point out that that's a suboptimal design for a tool. This isn't "suboptimal" though. If you delete a stored procedure in your RDBMS and it causes an outage, it's not because SQL/PostgreSQL is suboptimal. Simil…

Defaults matter. I don't know how else to express that a system which fails safe in the face of fallible humans is strictly better, all else being equal, than the alternative.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by anonfordays »

regularfry wrote: post #331
anonfordays wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Operationally mature" is code here for "the gun starts out loaded and pointed at your foot" No, it's code for "don't build a load bearing bridge if you don't understand structural engineering." > It's fine to point out that that's a suboptimal design for a tool. This isn't "suboptimal" though. If you delete a stored procedure in your RDBMS and it causes an outage, it's not because SQL/PostgreSQL is suboptimal. Simil…

Defaults matter. I don't know how else to express that a system which fails safe in the face of fallible humans is strictly better , all else being equal, than the alternative.

That is the default. Terraform fails safe by not deleting your databases on a whim, it asks for manual confirmation by default.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by scrapcode »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #174
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?

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.

I agree that it doesn't make much sense. You would think if you're even close to being considered they'd want to keep the bridge intact for next time.

I wonder if there is some kind of legal liability involved with sharing feedback with potential candidates? I know this is sometimes the case for referrals/what can and cannot be sad in a reference check, etc.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by quantified »

pc86 wrote: post #316
zifpanachr23 wrote: post #201

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The green screens tend to be much quicker and more responsive than the web frontends that are developed to replace them. I've seen a lot of failed projects for data entry apps because the experienced workers tend to prefer the terminals over the web apps. Usually the requirement for the new frontend is driven by management rather than the workers. Which is understandable to me as a programmer. If it's a task that I'm…

This only matters if "quick and more responsive" is the only thing that matters. Yes of course you can enter payroll timesheets on a TUI if you spend days/weeks/months gaining that muscle memory . The same way you can edit in vim much faster than vscode or Eclipse if you spend weeks/months/years gaining that muscle memory. The fact that someone who has been doing it for years can do it faster is obvious, and pretty i…

Are these really at odds with each other? You can have keyboard and click nav for any app.

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Post by atonse »

delulu wrote: post #223
krick wrote: post #160

So, what is the practical TL;DR for everyone who isn't neither an employee nor investor? Hashicorp kinda made a lot of significant stuff, but that stuff is mostly FOSS and the commercial product is very niche. I am kinda surprised IBM even bought it, because it isn't very clear to me, how commercializeable this stuff is. So what does it mean? Will IBM most likely kill some FOSS products? Is this even possible? Were,…

tl;dr: charging money for free software is, like, really hard.

To an extent maybe.

We were ready to invest in HC tools, but they were so damn brittle once we actually got past the smooth apple-like marketing and actually used them. Plenty of odd, not-well-documented behavior, random crashes, even the clusters required a bunch of manual steps to recover from. A major reason to even have a cluster is the self-healing, something tools like MongoDB did right 10+ years ago. Yet we had to manually edit a peers.json file and do all this garbage half the time when our clusters kept dying. It was infuriating. I kept insisting my devops guy had to be wrong when he told me that was the way it was done. I just couldn't believe that anything in 2021 required manual editing of JSON files when we have a million different self-discovery mechanisms (whether it's cloud metadata, or mDNS, etc). But he was 100% right, much to my disbelief.

So we ultimately pulled the plug after months of HC stuff running our QA system, because I just didn't feel comfortable pushing it to production given all the random crashes and behavior issues. And I feel vindicated.

I think if their stuff was more solid, I would 100% be happy to pay for it for our use cases. I thought generally that their ideas and levels of abstraction felt "right"

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Post by parasense »

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…

I was at a certain open source company IBM acquired, and it was certainly an interesting experience. I certainly don't harbor any overtly negative feelings towards IBM. I used to have negative feelings about IBM many years ago, as a customer in my former life as a sysadmin, many decades ago. However being under the IBM umbrellas was alright. Yall are going to be fine!

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Post by pm90 »

krick wrote: post #160

So, what is the practical TL;DR for everyone who isn't neither an employee nor investor? Hashicorp kinda made a lot of significant stuff, but that stuff is mostly FOSS and the commercial product is very niche. I am kinda surprised IBM even bought it, because it isn't very clear to me, how commercializeable this stuff is. So what does it mean? Will IBM most likely kill some FOSS products? Is this even possible? Were,…

IBM probably wants to bundle hashi products as part of their cloud offerings and can milk other cloud providers in licensing fees. All cloud providers support terraform and most current infrastructure is probably configured in HCL.

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Post by zifpanachr23 »

pc86 wrote: post #316
zifpanachr23 wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The green screens tend to be much quicker and more responsive than the web frontends that are developed to replace them. I've seen a lot of failed projects for data entry apps because the experienced workers tend to prefer the terminals over the web apps. Usually the requirement for the new frontend is driven by management rather than the workers. Which is understandable to me as a programmer. If it's a task that I'm…

This only matters if "quick and more responsive" is the only thing that matters. Yes of course you can enter payroll timesheets on a TUI if you spend days/weeks/months gaining that muscle memory . The same way you can edit in vim much faster than vscode or Eclipse if you spend weeks/months/years gaining that muscle memory. The fact that someone who has been doing it for years can do it faster is obvious, and pretty i…

For a work app doing data entry, there is supposed to be training for users, because it's somebody's job to use the program consistently all the time everyday.

I would agree with you if we were talking about a customer facing webpage or something. But an app for say an accountant? That should be a TUI or as fast as a TUI. The workers are literally hired to get over the learning curve and become fast with the app, so it's not as big a concern if first-use is more difficult. You arent trying to sell them a product and drive higher percentage click through.

I 100% agree with you for applications for say online shopping. Those should prioritize new user experience over long time user efficiency probably.

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Post by paulddraper »

glenngillen wrote: post #218
paulddraper wrote: post #53

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> they still had to pay taxes on the $80 IPO price They will get capital losses. That's not perfect.

It's really not. Let me know if you find any lenders that will let me pay off a mortgage with a capital loss. At least in the startup narrative that circulates on HN, most early employees at a company with that kind of IPO would hope to have a lottery like level of financial windfall. Now their upside is if they manage to get luck a second time they get to offset their winnings? :/

> Let me know if you find any lenders that will let me pay off a mortgage with a capital loss.

I don't.

But the IRS will let you pay your taxes that way.

It obviously depends how much equity vs income you're talking about.

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Post by burnte »

grepfru_it wrote: post #204
burnte wrote: post #15

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I'm pretty good at engineering fast moves. I took a company off of Salesforce in 45 days. VMware servers are even easier to changeout. Never done Terraform though.

This cowboy attitude doesn’t fly in regulated industries. Where VMware and co reign supreme

I've been in healthcare/finance for a decade. C level. I'm not a cowboy, I'm incredibly thorough, and I have a reputation for excellent work done fast. I'm in the third company for this PE firm because of the strong reputation I've created working at their companies. In 2021 they brought me in part-time consulting on one healthcare company where in 7 months I reorganized the IT structure, helping them land a very nice 9 figure exit.

My kind of operations work VERY well in highly regulated industries because I'm meticulous about regulations. Just because I can do it quickly doesn't mean I do it poorly, and I don't appreciate the assumption that I'm a "cowboy" being reckless.

And it would appear to me you are underinformed about how much migration off of VMware is really happening in these highly regulated industries. There's a tremendous amount of low-profile engineering going on to migrate away. No one is tipping off Broadcom because they don't want BCom to try turning the screws even more.

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