Ask HN: How is Quilt different from ClusterHQ?
If you recall, ClusterHQ created FlockerHub, and wanted to be "Git for Data". Then in December of 2016, right before the holidays, ClusterHQ abruptly shutdown [1] [2].
Coincidentally, I had interviewed there a month before. After going through the process and meeting the team I was left feeling the mission and product were too much a solution in search of a problem, so I passed. Then while I was living it up in Hawaii I was shell shocked to learn they'd abruptly closed up shop, with a public blog post titled "Cluster F*cked" [1].
Now I keep seeing these Quilt job postings on HN and am left wondering, is it more or less the same thing? A solution in search of a problem? What is different about Quilt vs. ClusterHQ?
Quilt's homepage seems to be selling the exact same pipe dream story and hawking similar wares...
[0] https://quilt-data.breezy.hr/p/15c4a8807cf6-technical-lead
[1] http://archive.is/vjiLw
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239032