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3 economic issues companies overlook when implementing Kubernetes
Marginal cost. For those who has existing infrastructure, implementing a first application on a new platform is going to be costly, in part due to the need of educating the employees and maintain two different types of deployments. The need for virtualization will...
Cost-driven decision making culture of the rich IT industry
Naturally, you may think big companies will do a thoughtful economic optimization? Unfortunately, it is not the case when management is disconnected from IT activities. While not being overly sharp sorting the technical details, cost cutting measures are presented as...
Why «AI» replacing tech jobs is appealing to businesses?
The bubble hasn’t popped yet. The reason --- managers love the idea of product cheapening, while unable to judge its quality.In the context of American culture, the primary market of «AI», it is impolite to give negative feedback, especially not corporatively aligned....
Why LLMs won’t be doing serious engineering work anytime soon
4 security disadvantages of real world Kubernetes
You may have already heard about the benefits, but it is important to be aware of risks.Firewall effectiveness. In a traditional deployment, a virtual machine has its own IP address. It is trivial to limit network access to and from it. There is wide support in...
Kubernetes from a pragmatic sysadmin perspective
Bohdan Khomutskyi
System administrator with knowledge of Python and PostgreSQL.
