I'm not a DevOps person. Can someone explain in less jargony terms what this is? Is it like Heroku? I have no idea.
Even with experience in ops, my brain hurts reading this. At first quick glance, I thought it was another HBO silicon valley spoof.
Flynn: first preview release
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Re: Flynn: first preview release
#62I'm not a DevOps person. Can someone explain in less jargony terms what this is? Is it like Heroku? I have no idea.
Even with experience in ops, my brain hurts reading this. At first quick glance, I thought it was another HBO silicon valley spoof.
It seems to me that a startup of any kind should have some sort of tagline or side bar that explains it like I'm five. If I'm not an Ops person and I come across, this, then if I can't grasp what it is or how useful it might be right off the bat, I won't recommend it to my Ops person at work, right? I understand the target audience is DevOps, but I think every startup should have a simple-yet-accurate layman's explanation on the front page. If you can't do that, maybe your service is too complicated?
This is something I think most startups miss when they do landing pages, unfortunately. Even as a frequent Hacker News reader, I have no idea what's going on... and that really shouldn't happen. :(
/rant. :)
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even with experience in ops, my brain hurts reading this. At first quick glance, I thought it was another HBO silicon valley spoof.
It seems to me that a startup of any kind should have some sort of tagline or side bar that explains it like I'm five. If I'm not an Ops person and I come across, this, then if I can't grasp what it is or how useful it might be right off the bat, I won't recommend it to my Ops person at work, right? I understand the target audience is DevOps, but I think every startup should have a simple-yet-accurate layman's explan…
The landing page hasn't dislodged me from my dinosaur ways.
Possible weekend project idea -- startup landing pages for the common man. A service to crowdsource/automate (and then index) the translation of buzz to something at least your or I understand in 5-10 seconds, a more lay person, say 30 seconds.
Re: Flynn: first preview release
#64How does Flynn compare to OpenShift or Cloud Foundry? Is it trying to solve the same problems, perhaps leapfrogging them in some ways? [Edit] I would also ask the same about Apache Mesos since that seems like it's coming up a lot in this discussion as well.
I too am interested in the comparison with such projects and the differing requirements they cater for. I'm also working on some notes on https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Stack if anyone is interested in bettering the order/outline/etc.
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#66Very nit-picky comment, but: Can you explain in one or two sentences what the value proposition is? I might be dense, but it took me quite a bit of clicking around, reading HN comments, and poking at the Omega paper to understand what you want to do their. (Well, I think I understand. The "private Heroku" line points in the right direction, at least)
Flynn is the product ops should provide to developers. Flynn is a single platform that runs all your services from databases to applications to individual Linux processes. With Flynn ops teams can stop being consultants and start providing a single product to their internal "customers". Basically you can deploy and scale whatever you want all in one place on any infrastructure without having to think about individual…
Yes. I read the site, as I said. Reposting the text from there is kind of pointless, no?
I don't ultimately care one way or another - it was meant as friendly feedback that it's unclear right now. You'll notice that quite a few of the comments also said something to the effect of "I guess it does this". Which means it's not entirely clear what it does to more people than just me.
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#67I feel rather silly now, but...
What does Flynn do? The word "ops" is so central to the pitch and so ambiguous to me that I have absolutely no idea what the function of this software (it is software, right?) is.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to me that a startup of any kind should have some sort of tagline or side bar that explains it like I'm five. If I'm not an Ops person and I come across, this, then if I can't grasp what it is or how useful it might be right off the bat, I won't recommend it to my Ops person at work, right? I understand the target audience is DevOps, but I think every startup should have a simple-yet-accurate layman's explan…
The landing page hasn't dislodged me from my dinosaur ways. Possible weekend project idea -- startup landing pages for the common man. A service to crowdsource/automate (and then index) the translation of buzz to something at least your or I understand in 5-10 seconds, a more lay person, say 30 seconds.
Do it.
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#69I feel rather silly now, but... What does Flynn do ? The word "ops" is so central to the pitch and so ambiguous to me that I have absolutely no idea what the function of this software (it is software, right?) is.
It's a project to build something like https://github.com/progrium/dokku
Its goals are more ambitious than Dokku but it's too early to tell if it will be any good.
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#70I feel rather silly now, but... What does Flynn do ? The word "ops" is so central to the pitch and so ambiguous to me that I have absolutely no idea what the function of this software (it is software, right?) is.
It's a project to build something like https://github.com/progrium/dokku Its goals are more ambitious than Dokku but it's too early to tell if it will be any good.
Or this: