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jonathanoliver wrote: post #195
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…

We use Nomad where I work and we LOVE it. Previous to Nomad we used K8s for several years which, at that point, allowed us to become cloud agnostic. With the move to Nomad about 3+ years ago, we were able to transition away from cloud and back to leased, bare metal machines. During our time with K8s, it didn't have a good bare-metal strategy with their ingress mechanism. In contrast, as we investigated Nomad, it was…

Glad to hear Nomad is working well for you! It always means a lot. We as the dev team spend all day staring at bugs and missing features, so it's nice to be reminded of what's working well! No one files an issue for a happy cluster. :)

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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m1keil wrote: post #281
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…

Hey on a personal note, dealing with you and your team on Nomad's GitHub issue tracker was always a good experience. I hope nomad still has a future under IBM's roof.

Thanks! We have kept an explicit community rotation and issue triage policy for Nomad's entire life. Definitely one of my hard lines.

I know we aren't perfect. In fact it's my turn this week, and I've utterly failed at keeping up with triage!!

We get tremendous joy and value from engaging with our community. Thanks for your patience (with me in particular!)

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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heipei wrote: post #235
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 just wanted to say thank you for your work on Nomad. It's one of the most pleasant and useful pieces of software I have ever worked with. Nomad allowed us to build out a large fleet of servers with a small team while still enjoying the process.

> Nomad allowed us to build out a large fleet of servers with a small team

I really love these stories. Our customers constantly shock me with how large of clusters they're able to manage with just a few people. >10k nodes by Nomad is far from perfect, but we really strive to ease the pains of managing your compute substrate.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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superjared wrote: post #183
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…

What a blessing to see your comment today. It's been a while. I hope this works in your favor, whatever that means.

<3

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by schmichael »

Hrun0 wrote: post #237
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…

The Nomad team is a big reason why I am using it and I am sad to see you go.

> I am sad to see you go.

I'm not going anywhere! My grammar isn't always the best, so I apologize for the confusion.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by crabbone »

zzzeek wrote: post #131
spicyusername wrote: post #120

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Unfortunately IBM is going to ruin everything that was good about working for Hashicorp and eventually everything that was good about Hashicorp products. I worked for a company acquired by IBM, and we held hope like you are doing, but it was only a matter of time before the benefit cuts, layoffs, and death of the pre-existing culture. Your best bet is to quit right after the acquisition and hope they give you a big r…

Red Hatter here. none of that has happened for us at Red Hat. Other than the one round of layoffs which occurred at the time that basically every tech company everywhere was doing much larger layoffs, that was pretty much it and there's no reason to think our layoffs wouldn't have been much greater at that time if we were not under the IBM umbrella. Besides that, I dont even remember when we were acquired, absolutely…

If you asked people working for XIV before IBM discontinued the project, they'd tell you the same thing more or less.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by schmichael »

proxysna wrote: post #275
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…

Just wanted to say thanks for your work on Nomad. Amazing tool that had me rethink a lot of things about how i work with infra and software in general and is always pleasant to work with by itself.

Thanks! I think this is a really insightful comment because Nomad is more opinionated than I think we let on. The subtle interactions between signals, service discovery, health checks, templates, etc. all have a big impact on the reliability of the system as a whole. I've always wanted to do a "HashiCorp Validated Nomad App Design" kind of doc to outline these best practices, but it's always proved too big of a lift. Maybe now is the time!

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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ddreier wrote: post #186
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…

Fairly large Nomad Enterprise user here, and I just want to say thanks for all of the work you and the team put in. I'm a big fan of Nomad and really appreciate the opportunities it has afforded me. Regardless of the general sentiment, hoping for the best outcome for all of you.

Thanks for supporting us!

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Post by tiberious726 »

thisisnotauser wrote: post #137
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'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,…

Everyone I know who works with IBM i (used to be system i, as/400 before that) absolutely adores it. Gods do they every nickel and dime you tho.
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