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by randmeerkat 754 days ago
> That was seven years later. Maybe the problem is that Google stopped reading what Google wrote.

The problem is that it was never that good. Anyone who has used K8s at scale will tell you at length how it doesn’t scale. People should stop focusing on tech companies like celebrities and focus instead on domain problems related to their business.
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lima 754 days ago
The funny thing with k8s is that Google doesn't use it (except GKE, and there's a reason it's one cluster per customer).

Their internal tooling scales just fine, but all it shares with k8s is some of the underlying concepts. Unlike, say, Bazel, gVisor or Gerrit, which are the real thing (minus some secret sauce tied to internal infra). k8s is good software, and best-in-class when it comes to open source options, but the idea that it is "open source Borg" is silly.

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randmeerkat 754 days ago
> k8s is good software, and best-in-class when it comes to open source options

No it isn’t, it’s a solution in search of a problem that is needlessly complex, wastes engineering cycles on what could have been product development, and has violated every principal of orthogonal design.

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