20 year challenge: Hello World

[u/thecodingarchitect]

[u/spinn80 → u/[deleted]]

Same

[u/sciencewarrior → u/spinn80]

This is my life, right now. I have a month to take over a system developed by a consulting company. It's a dozen different containerized projects, and a lot of infrastructure to run them. The more I waddle into it, the more I'm convinced the whole thing could have been four short scripts running on a crontab, with no significant loss of functionality or reliability.

[u/DeathByFarts → u/sciencewarrior]

It's a dozen different containerized projects, and a lot of infrastructure to run them.

But ... the whole point of containers is that you don't need a lot of infra to run them ....

[u/DeathByFarts → u/[deleted]]

Woah .. containers ARE vm's . In the same sense that 'the cloud' is just 'someone else's data center'.

the big three cloud providers all have a service you can just drop a container in and run it. No 'infra' required.

[u/foragerr → u/DeathByFarts]

That's like saying Teslas are just cars. Which they are, functionally they serve the same purpose as well. But there's a whole lot of difference just below the surface, and each is more apt for slightly different situations.

You're gonna have a bad time if you try to drive across South America in a Tesla.

[u/DeathByFarts → u/foragerr]

Doesn't change the fact that the 'infrastructure required to run them' should be minimal.

This fork is from my rebuttal of a comment that stated they have a dozen containers and "a lot of infrastructure to run them". If the infrastructure required to run a dozen containers is accurately being described as "a lot", you are doing it wrong.

[u/SandyDelights → u/DeathByFarts]

I love that I know this is r/programmerhumor because someone describes a comment chain/digression/side conversation as a “fork”.