[HN Gopher] Running servers and services well is not trivial ___________________________________________________________________ Running servers and services well is not trivial Author : kiyanwang Score : 16 points Date : 2020-02-17 08:28 UTC (14 hours ago) (HTM) web link (utcc.utoronto.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (utcc.utoronto.ca) | lykr0n wrote: | This is true to some extent. I'm building out the infrastructure | for my company, and there is a lot of effort on my part required | to automate stuff. | | Something like kafka requires figuring out the configuration you | want, putting that into Salt, adding the correct configuration | options, deploying it and making sure zookeeper works, and then | generating certificates and what not. It's not a simple process. | | Setting up monitoring, and other things like floating IPs is a | pain. Custom wrappers for Terraform scripts and other components | required to deploy the systems you need to run an app. It's a lot | eandre wrote: | This is certainly true, but it strikes me that the solution must | be a move towards simpler primitives so that managing a cloud- | based piece of software doesn't require so many moving parts. | AlchemistCamp wrote: | On the other hand Alan Kay has made powerful arguments that | systems can be made much simpler if only their building blocks | were slightly less simple! It's a tough question. | | https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs?t=319 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-02-17 23:00 UTC)