MusicBrainz is great. I stumbled upon it about a year ago while trying to figure out how various open-source desktop music apps populate track info... and was delighted to find that some random Internet stranger had helpfully catalogued all my youtube videos years prior!
> That was seven years later. Maybe the problem is that Google stopped reading what Google wrote.
The problem is that it was never that good. Anyone who has used K8s at scale will tell you at length how it doesn’t scale. People should stop focusing on tech companies like celebrities and focus instead on domain problems related to their business.
The funny thing with k8s is that Google doesn't use it (except GKE, and there's a reason it's one cluster per customer).
Their internal tooling scales just fine, but all it shares with k8s is some of the underlying concepts. Unlike, say, Bazel, gVisor or Gerrit, which are the real thing (minus some secret sauce tied to internal infra). k8s is good software, and best-in-class when it comes to open source options, but the idea that it is "open source Borg" is silly.
> k8s is good software, and best-in-class when it comes to open source options
No it isn’t, it’s a solution in search of a problem that is needlessly complex, wastes engineering cycles on what could have been product development, and has violated every principal of orthogonal design.
I personally agree about the whole point of Lego being free form building - and I still have some Lego magazines from the days when that was explicitly encouraged by Lego - but you need kits and instructions to get to the point where you can do free form building. It's like composing music, you're going to have a very difficult time of it if you don't first study a whole lot of existing, well-constructed music.
What I don't understand (speaking of Vimeo) is why doesn't YouTube offer a plan where individual content creators can choose to pay a monthly fee to keep ads off of their own videos for all viewers. Speaking for myself I would happily pay for that.
You can read the Vimeo thread for why it can not work. If people pay a monthly fee, and their views skyrocket, you either have to force them to pay much more, or to restrict their views somehow, both of which are just so so bad compared to the current scenario (this is exactly what Vimeo did).
Me! First Christmas at my new (fully remote) job on an SRE team and I'm on call through most of this coming week. Not complaining though, I actually asked for this stretch, due to awkward timing with other commitments during other weeks. Fortunately there are other members of the team I can reach if I need them, and family live nearby. I'm just thankful to be gainfully employed.
It's pretty quiet at the moment and I'm actually kind of jealous that I'm not facing the kind of excitement you are... I guess I should be careful what I wish for lol.
Procrastinating on studying for my AWS certification next week. I was unemployed for several months of this year and knowledge of AWS or any of the major cloud providers was the most glaring hole on my resume. Happily, my new employer pays for AWS training for all of its employees, so that hole is being filled... except, as always, it's way more fun reading HN than studying :/
I'm taking the Solutions Architect exam. Arguably I should have waited until I had a few more months hands-on experience, but I kind of felt like jumping off the deep end.
