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Platform9
Company blog · platform9.com/blog · on HN as sir_robsystemsprogramming
Platform9 is the company blog at platform9.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Fission, a serverless framework on Kubernetes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention Platform9 as a managed Kubernetes and OpenStack provider, and its Fission serverless framework. One commenter points to its Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm comparison as a good starting point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Platform9 offers enterprises a familiar private cloud experience with all critical enterprise features to run VMs and containers at scale.
Most-linked posts?
- Fission, a serverless framework on Kubernetes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-26
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-17
What Hacker News says?
Platform9 Systems ( http://platform9.com ) | Software Engineers, Developer Advocates, Program Managers, et al | Sunnyvale CA | ONSITE, VISA Platform9 makes cloud-hosted management systems for open source software (such as Kubernetes and Openstack) on customer infrastructure. We're also making Fission, a serverless framework for Kubernetes: http://fission.io . We're hiring across several positions: Software Engineeri…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Platform9 open-sources etcdadm to manage etcd clusters for Kubernetes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPlatform9 | Sunnyvale, CA | Various (Engineer / Pre-Sales / Customer Success) | Onsite & Remote | Full-time | https://platform9.com/careers/ Platform9 provides a SaaS based managed solution that lets our enterprise clients adopt cloud technologies quickly. We leverage open source solutions like Kubernetes, OpenStack & Fission. You can manage and consistently run VMs, Containers and Serverless functions on any infras…
Comment linking /customers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Fission, a serverless framework on Kubernetes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPlatform9 Systems | Sunnyvale, CA | Onsite | Full Time Platform9 makes an "easy button" for OpenStack! Come join us as a Software Developer practicing DevOps in these areas: build/release, upgrades, monitoring, logging, security and playing fetch with the office dog. We are a Python shop, we ssh into our dev servers and work on MacBooks or Chromebooks. The ideal candidate is a coder, has an interest in Go and knows…
Comment linking /company/careers/sunnyvale.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)”Submitted Kubernetes Helm: Why It Matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTo be fair with other solid "on-top-of-K8S" frameworks: - Fission by Platform 5 https://platform9.com/fission - Kubeless http://kubeless.io/ - Nuclio by https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio Not to mention few newer ones (there are over 30 serverless frameworks for any taste and size).
Comment linking /fission
on “Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform”Submitted Platform9 Launches Industry's First Infrastructure-Agnostic Managed Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI believe this does a good job comparing without going to deep, e.g. for people just getting started on swarm/k8 https://platform9.com/blog/kubernetes-docker-swarm-compared/ Edit: updated url to a more recent version of the article
Comment linking /blog/kubernetes-docker-swarm-compared/
on “Convergence to Kubernetes”Submitted Container Orchestration Tools: Compare Kubernetes and Mesos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI know companies that use these folks to help manage “on other folks prem” K8s deployments: https://platform9.com/
Comment linking /
on “Do I Need Kubernetes?”Also: https://getporter.dev/ https://convox.com/ https://atomizedhq.com/ And closely related: https://humanitec.com/ https://www.okteto.com/ https://www.env0.com/ And then old options like: https://dokku.com/ https://caprover.com/ And maybe: https://swarmpit.io/ https://coolify.io/ https://www.bunnyshell.com/ https://platform9.com/ And probably a dozen more. It's kind of wild.
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: SetOps – Run containers, databases and more in your own AWS account”