Articles tagged: Cloud

How to waste $5M on containerized infrastructure

A 70,000-node Mesos cluster sat unused because containerization, unlike virtualization, requires developer buy-in and tools that bridge the gap between devs and ops.

Infrastructure · Cloud

SaaS economy in the age of containers

Containers and Kubernetes threaten to erode SaaS's key advantage — infrastructure arbitrage — by letting any company build highly available infrastructure at a fraction of the cost.

Saas · Infrastructure · Cloud

Google's infrastructure for everyone else

Most startups aren't Google and shouldn't adopt Google-scale infrastructure tools like Kubernetes — premature optimization with oversized tools burdens your business unnecessarily.

Infrastructure · Cloud · Startups