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Elastic.co lays off 13% of team
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Re: Elastic.co lays off 13% of team
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Yeah it’s amazing how much potential that company had and then blew it with a series of questionable business decisions. They had a ton of really quality talent too but much of it has moved on the last few years. Pretty much everything MongoDB did right, Elastic did the opposite and failed. Instead of being the best place to run Elasticsearch, one of the most popular open source projects ever, they blew all that bran…
As someone that worked at Elastic for 4.5 years on the Elastic Cloud team and really loved it there for the majority of that time, I saddens me to admit it but this is spot on. Despite all their best efforts, everyone I've ever spoken to just wants to run the "ELK stack" and doesn't care about their confusing solutions strategy. One thing about Elastic is that their roots are in on-prem / self-managed software and se…
Thanks for the input. Had similar experience with solution based on top of on-prem flavour (gravity - name came from pulling stuff from cloud back into traditional data centre) of k8s. Countless effort and resources have been wasted on troubleshooting customers' infrastructure rather than focusing on the real goal, get apps/APIs up and running quickly to generate value and realise goals for the business. The solution ultimately become a burden to both engineering and customers... Long sad / bad story.
Fortunately, decision makes heard the voice from the field and customers, eventually offloaded the container orchestration layer (and underlying infrastructure) to managed k8s service provider, the solution is delivered as helm charts to be installed on customers' own managed k8s (EKS, AKS, GKE and OpenShift - oh, the Red Hat OpenShi(f)t is just another rabbit hole...). But again, lack of knowledge and hands-on skill operating / running k8s (not yet a commodity although it is hyped to be...) makes the journey quite turbulent from a business PoV (technically it's easy, built the skills in house, hire the right talents).