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by jacques_chester 3055 days ago
I agree with pretty much everything you said and it's very heartening to not be the token Cloud Foundry person in the comments.

As a nitpick:

> This is why I don't understand why this article lumps, e.g. Cloud Foundry in with K8S - they solve entirely different problems.

In fairness, the reference was to Cloud Foundry Diego, which is the most analogical component to Kubernetes. And they are of comparable vintage. Diego never found any independent traction outside of CFAR.

> I've helped run multiple thousand TPS using Cloudfoundry, driving one of Europe's biggest retailers using just a few services.

We have customers doing millions of payments per hour, billions of events per day. Running tens of thousands of apps, thousands of services, with thousands of developers, deploying thousands of times per week.

CFAR doesn't get much press out of enterprise-land, but it works really well.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. We have commercial distributions of both Cloud Foundry (PAS) and Kubernetes (PKS).