Infrastructure From Code
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Infrastructure From Code
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Re: Infrastructure From Code
#2This is cool, it would be great if they had a hosted service.
Re: Infrastructure From Code
#3> dependencies like databases being provisioned through static analysis in real-time.
I'm probably extremely biased (I'm a sysadmin), but this feels like a terrifying way to make your infrastructure entirely implicit and remove anybody's ability to coherently reason about the stuff underneath your application.
Re: Infrastructure From Code
#4> dependencies like databases being provisioned through static analysis in real-time. I'm probably extremely biased (I'm a sysadmin), but this feels like a terrifying way to make your infrastructure entirely implicit and remove anybody's ability to coherently reason about the stuff underneath your application.
Ops monkey here: agreed.
I'm not entirely averse to magic infrastructure beans but having an intermediate step where things are explicitly spelled out would make me far less nervous. Using shuttle to spit out a TF file – cool, using shuttle to automagically spin stuff up – terrifying.
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#5This is a pedantic side comment, but I believe the very first sentence of this article is incorrect! AFAIK, Facemash was hosted on Zuckerberg's personal computer in his dorm room; ditto for the first version of Facebook shortly thereafter. After that, it was moved to a rented server.
source: I didn't attend Harvard, but I worked for their IT department beginning in 2005. Several of my coworkers had been directly involved in the disciplinary action against Zuckerberg and were very familiar with the details. That said, it is entirely possible I am misremembering. But other accounts seem to agree, e.g. https://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Zuckerberg-initially-host...
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#6I think the future of hackathon/startup coding will involve tools to make infrastructure that's far more cookie cutter and easy to setup than today. This is a cool approach - starting with Rust is a ballsy move, though. I feel like the niche this serves for rapid prototyping might be more suited for python/typescript. Not sure if static analysis is easier or harder with those though.
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#7Maybe I'm conservative, but Infrastructure as code seems like a great idea.
Infrastructure from code seems convenient for side-projects, but absolutely awful for something big where your infrastructure is now implicit in your code??
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#8> dependencies like databases being provisioned through static analysis in real-time. I'm probably extremely biased (I'm a sysadmin), but this feels like a terrifying way to make your infrastructure entirely implicit and remove anybody's ability to coherently reason about the stuff underneath your application.
It seems like it'd be all too easy to accidentally create databases and then forget about them when you correct an annotation typo or something. I'm 100% sure that I would do that.
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#9Maybe I'm conservative, but Infrastructure as code seems like a great idea. Infrastructure from code seems convenient for side-projects, but absolutely awful for something big where your infrastructure is now implicit in your code??
One thing I really, really like about the idea is it makes it easier to share full repro test cases if something goes wrong.
Re: Infrastructure From Code
#10This is a pedantic side comment, but I believe the very first sentence of this article is incorrect! AFAIK, Facemash was hosted on Zuckerberg's personal computer in his dorm room; ditto for the first version of Facebook shortly thereafter. After that, it was moved to a rented server. source: I didn't attend Harvard, but I worked for their IT department beginning in 2005. Several of my coworkers had been directly invo…
This is correct. Mark never used Harvard servers for Facebook.