Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes - eviltoast
Xenobroom Inc., a young startup fresh out of Silicon Valley started a lengthy process of upgrading their server infrastructure back in May 2020. According to the remaining fragments of CEO's daily journal and CTO's engineering notes, the company enjoyed a sharp rise in daily use in the midst of the global pandemic. Soon after, the decision to migrate the existing infrastructure to Kubernetes was made.

The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 months ago

    It’s not that you forget what you are doing.

    It’s that all the unknown problems start interfering with each other, so you can’t manage to do anything.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 months ago

      That is probably most common! The forgetting what you are doing part probably only comes so far down the road of trying to make a system that works despite all the interferences.