Xenobroom Inc., a young startup fresh out of Silicon Valley started a lengthy process of upgrading their server infrastructure back in May 2020. According to the remaining fragments of CEO's daily journal and CTO's engineering notes, the company enjoyed a sharp rise in daily use in the midst of the global pandemic. Soon after, the decision to migrate the existing infrastructure to Kubernetes was made.
The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.
I read somewhere that Volkswagen has about 900 K8s clusters. I feel that there is a direct correlation between this and the quality of their shitty cars.
Interesting, maybe I’m just used to living in south America where even the crap German cars are better than the “premium” Brazilian and Indonesian cars we get
I read somewhere that Volkswagen has about 900 K8s clusters. I feel that there is a direct correlation between this and the quality of their shitty cars.
Seriously curious here, what cars would you consider not to be shitty?
Toyotas, mostly.
Mazdas too.
True, just not the rotaries ;)
Honda
Mostly the non German ones.
Interesting, maybe I’m just used to living in south America where even the crap German cars are better than the “premium” Brazilian and Indonesian cars we get
Down in Costa Rica I’d definitely take a VW over the invasion of Chinese cars.
But in the United States? I wouldn’t touch those overly complicated POS. The ones we get aren’t the simple cheap ones for outside the US market.
That’s not unusual, my company has an internal K8saaS product as well, so there are a lot of clusters