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Logically
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Logically is a personal blog at logical.li about programming and culture. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “The Emperor's New Clouds”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- The Emperor's New Clouds4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-05-14
- DevOps: The Funeral (2023)3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-06-26
- Microservices and the Ops / Dev Ratio3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-07
What Hacker News says?
The same thing that happened to devops from 2017-2024 (see: https://logical.li/blog/devops/ ) is happening with dataops. Hype train and jargon based decisions are taking place. In the past years I was solving a data pipeline mess on a project which also had a devops AWS mess. First thing I was told was "what we need is a data lake". Decisions are sticky so take context into account.
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on “Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?”Submitted DevOps: The Funeral (2023) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionProbably so. And that would be likely my approach at such scale. Still, my most benevolent interpretation of current reality is, rather than saying "that cloud native stuff is crap", accepting that there are cases where it may make sense. For instance, large companies might have trouble hiring a good ops team because they have in general trouble hiring and retaining talent (another conversation topic). Ops people ar…
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on “Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?”Submitted The Emperor's New Clouds as a story · 5 points
HN discussion...and the funny thing is that it is still cheaper than cloud native even being up all the time and provides a predictable cost per month, unlike serverless where you can have big surprises. Check: https://logical.li/blog/emperors-new-clouds/
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on “Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?”Submitted The Emperor's New Clouds as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI went through sweat and tears with this on different projects. People wanting to be cool because they use hype-train-tech ending up doing things of unbelievably bad quality because "hey, we are not that many in the team" but "hey, we need infinite scalability". Teams immature to the point of not understanding what LTS means have decided that they needed Kubernetes because yes. I could go on. I currently have distil…
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on “Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?”Submitted Htmx-Based Hello World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah, the Emperor's New Clouds. Sometime ago I thought I was crazy and everybody else was right :-) but now we are seeing more and more people doing the numbers. https://logical.li/blog/emperors-new-clouds/ I wonder, though, why the topic is so contentious. This is supposed to be an engineering discipline, not a fight between religions.
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on “I got everything off the cloud and am paying less”Submitted The Linux Load Average as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love Martin Fowler's one pager called Snowflake server - it aged very well and I still use it as a reference in the cloud era. And this text is also good advice IMO. What I feel that is missing on what he calls the "Microservices Premium" is a clear statement that this premium is paid in "ops" hours. That changes the game because of the "ops" resource scarcity. In fact, the microservices dilemma is an optimization…
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on “Monolith First (2015)”Submitted The Emperor's New Clouds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a bit about this as well: https://logical.li/blog/team-capacity/ https://logical.li/blog/hype-trains/ https://logical.li/blog/seven-traits/
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on “Ask HN: What do non-technical founders need to know about software dev?”Submitted Microservices and the Ops / Dev Ratio as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"configuring a Linux base image for a specific server role" or "setting up a complex cloud environment from scratch" ^^^^^^^ I don't know if you have experience working this kind of thing but these processes have a single desired outcome and multiple undesired outcomes. They can break in many different ways and they do break more often than desired. One simple case related to setting up a Linux instance is when you…
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on “Entropy in Engineering Processes”Submitted Entropy in Engineering Processes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI write about technology, statistics and society here: https://logical.li/ Found a lot of inspiration from blogs discovered via HN.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted DevOps: The Funeral as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices and the Ops / Dev Ratio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Team capacity discharge: how doing things prevents us from doing things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevOps: The Funeral – Logically as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hype Trains Considered Harmful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Group sex and the math of political correctness as a story · 1 points
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