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Re: Weaveworks is shutting down

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Post by swozey »

FourierEnvy wrote: post #40
swozey wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hell, we do it once in terraform/pulumi/cdk and then it takes 10 minutes to tweak some variables and switch aws accounts and bam Our devs/SRE put up apps and clusters in minutes (aside from the terrible alb/ecs/eks/etc deployment times).

Yeah this is nice if you have large teams and repeatable projects. Smaller companies have much more ad-hoc requests. I stood up an entirely new type of project end-to-end from a docker compose into our cluster. Re-used alot of code base but it was still a bit of work. Much less than it used to be though.

I have this installed but I've never actually done more than a quick test of it but this might be a good tool for you. It'll record all of your aws console actions and output them as terraform, couldformation, cdk, etc.

That'd give you a repeatable deployment for disaster recovery without having the toil of writing that part of it. Having to click through every checkbox in the console and iam perms and blahblah under fire is rough.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/console-recorder-fo...

Re: Weaveworks is shutting down

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Post by mad_vill »

marcinzm wrote: post #21
mad_vill wrote: post #13

I feel like the next generation of this type of company is smaller consultancies that have awesome developers that build customer tooling on the side. But the main revenue driver is consultancy. Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker/kubernetes/cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.

> Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker/kubernetes/cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s. Not really, the space has simply grown faster than these companies could keep up with and were left behind. I can code up a CICD pipeline that does per-PR namespace isolated deploys of an app stack on EKS using Github actions in well under a week. With docker compose for local…

they did more than just CICD but I see your point.

Re: Weaveworks is shutting down

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Post by mihaitodor »

javierluraschi wrote: post #18
mihaitodor wrote: post #9

Sometime last year, they had someone cold call me from the US to sell me stuff. I’m not sure where they got my number from, but I don’t think that’s a good strategy for trying to sell B2B solutions.

What's your ideal B2B sales strategy that would work for you?

I’m a bit more receptive to offline messages if they’re targeted adequately. They can see my interests by skimming my LinkedIn, GitHub and StackOverflow accounts and contacting me via social media or by email is fine if their product is somewhat relevant to my work or hobbies. However, asking me to spend my time trialing their “new super-cool Kubernetes offering” is a huge nope. Especially if that interaction happens over the phone.

Re: Weaveworks is shutting down

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Post by stackskipton »

edoceo wrote: post #2

https://www.weave.works/ "Operate and Manage Kubernetes easily" / "GitOps Automation for Kubernetes Stacks"

Probably most popular thing they built was FluxCD if you are confused where you have heard their name before.

Their company provided a ton of extra tooling and consulting around the product. Hopefully as FluxCD user, this doesn't impact the development of Flux.

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Post by xboxnolifes »

coding123 wrote: post #24
javierluraschi wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your ideal B2B sales strategy that would work for you?

The product is so good you found out about it from someone else and had to have it also... Kinda like docker or python or something. They actually had that when the first started.

So, how did the other person find out about it?

Re: Weaveworks is shutting down

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Post by softwaredoug »

mad_vill wrote: post #13

I feel like the next generation of this type of company is smaller consultancies that have awesome developers that build customer tooling on the side. But the main revenue driver is consultancy. Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker/kubernetes/cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.

"Smaller consultancies" are actually really hard. Especially if you want to deal with larger companies with the type of $$ to pay for consulting. Instead of doing the work you love you end up in procurement and payment hell.
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