I’ve seen doineedkubernetes.com dropped a few times in the last week, sometimes by the same kind of person who would in the next thread about something else link Aurynn Shaw’s Contempt Culture. Here’s looking at you!
(i just typed isjavascriptgoodyet.com into my browser — given the focus it receives in the aforementioned essay — not knowing if such a domain existed, and what do you know! Consider who your neighbours are.)
To give some more context, I basically didn’t give a damn about k8s, and then one day I read Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes and it stuck in my mind. It stuck there right up until I was in a work situation where I realised that this was essentially exactly what had happened, and furthermore that the accumulating shell scripts I had been surrounded by for years had cost us so much, and were doing their job so increasingly poorly, that they badly needed to be replaced by something actually purpose-built, and that that something was in fact Kubernetes.
And so I decided to learn it thoroughly, to perhaps apply it in this work situation, but in the end the “engineering dysfunction mirrors organisational dysfunction” property indeed goes two ways and it was going to be more of an uphill battle than I could take on at this point in my life. But now I know Kubernetes, and I am thankful for that. I bounced off Nix the first time I tried it in earnest (2020), too.
