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by crazy5sheep 1919 days ago
Developing with docker is not necessary a micro service, it's just a way of packaging, distributing and deploying your application in a clean way. And docker is not a virtual machine, there's not much overhead, you don't need kubernetes if it's just a simple app, but you can just take advantage of managed service like ECS, you get auto scaling right away, and you don't have manage your node and deal with the stupid thing like systemD
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eecc 1919 days ago
Yup, I see docker (and K8s) as another Websphere.
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zorpner 1919 days ago
> you get auto scaling right away

Every time I see someone say something like this, or better yet use the word "magic", what I hear is that they don't understand how or why their system does the things it does. Nothing is free; nothing is magic; nothing "just works". You understand it or you don't, and nothing has contributed more to the plague of developers thinking they understand it when they don't than cloud-based containers (and the absurd associated costs!).

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rualca 1919 days ago
> Every time I see someone say something like this, or better yet use the word "magic", what I hear is that they don't understand how or why their system does the things it does.

There is nothing magic about configuring a deployment to autoscale. You set resource limits, you configure your deployment to scale up if an upper limit is reached and you didn't maxed out, and you configure your deployment to scale down if a lower limit is reached and you didn't min out. What do you find hard to understand?

> Nothing is free; nothing is magic; nothing "just works". You understand it or you don't,

You're the only one claiming it's magic.

The rest of the world doesn't seem to have a problem after having read a couple of pages into the tutorial on how to configure autoscale on whatever service/cloud provider.

> and nothing has contributed more to the plague of developers thinking they understand it when they don't than cloud-based containers (and the absurd associated costs!).

You're the only one posting a baseless assertion that other developers somehow don't understand autoscaling, as if everyone around you struggles with it.

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