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Quick clarification. 18F is not assigned work by USDS. Federal agencies come to 18F with proposed projects and then 18F chooses which ones it works on based on staffing/scope/impact etc. I'm an 18F employee.
What is it like working for 18F? Office space, flexibility of hours, commute, workstation, work attire, etc? Would someone who prefers the startup atmosphere survive for long?
Interesting to see Cloud Foundry take off this year after many years of being more of a curiosity on its own island. I personally didn't get it until I saw Docker a couple of years ago and wondered "how will we operate all of these apps, services or even the servers they run on without playing yet another shell game and resorting back to traditional shit IT?". And that brought me back to Cloud Foundry and BOSH, to th…
How are you finding Cloud Foundry? Is it good? I've looked quickly at it, but unlike (say) Heroku, found it hard to know where to start to host a simple app.
CF is very good if you want to run a cloud native / 12 factor app. It's also rapidly evolving to run rich workloads (TCP router is coming, .NET is in beta).
I would say CF is more flexible at the kinds of apps and services it can run as the buildpacks tend to be more sophisticated forks of the Heroku buildpacks, or new from scratch buildpacks (like PHP, Or Java). Docker images should be hostable in the near future as well.
Whereas the service levels and instance sizing flexibility available from Heroku tends to be richer.
This is a function of where both companies make their money. Heroku only makes money from their public cloud, whereas Pivotal is focused on selling high end subscriptions for those who want to run their own private CF on Amazon or VMware or OpenStack.
Cool initiative, but companies that have state government as clients would not agree to a federally hosted cloud based service.
_Member of 18F._