Richard Bischof
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Richard Bischof
@GeoCloudChaser
Developer, Visionary & Disruptor @ LGLN - views are my own.

Kubernetes migration almost killed our startup. Where we were: - 8 EC2 instances - Ansible for deploys - Boring but working - $1200/month AWS bill Why we migrated: - New investor wanted 'cloud-native' - Engineers wanted K8s experience - Competitors were using it - Seemed like the future 6 months later: - 3 engineers spending full-time on K8s - AWS bill at $4500/month - Deploys took longer than before - More outages, not fewer - Product development stalled We rolled back: - Moved to ECS Fargate - 2 week migration - Back to $1800/month - Engineers back on features K8s is amazing for scale. We weren't at scale. Technology should solve problems you actually have.




Unpopular opinion: Mit Volker @wissing an der Spitze hätte sich die #FDP nicht ins Aus geschossen. Im Interview redet er über den „Tabubruch“ der Union, die Folgen des Ampel-Aus für die Demokratie und den „Richtungswechsel“ der FDP. Kleiner Spoiler: 1/2 amp.focus.de/politik/volker…


Started working on an alternative to Kamal (by @DHH). Single binary, supports multiple services. Note: It's in active development; bugs may occur.























