How HashiCorp evolved its cloud infrastructure

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8 points·marwann··6 comments

This is a pretty big nothing burger.

Dude is good at talking and selling. He sells execs on what he wants to do and sells devs on doing and sells everyone on deadlines. OK...

I was reminded that we stopped paying for their cloud services because it was hard to justify the cost for the limited functionality, especially given the security issues they didn’t make progress on for years. I’m sure they did some cool stuff behind the scenes but I honestly can’t think of a single useful feature added in at least the last 5 years.

I was at hashi when HCP kicked off. Behind the scenes stuff was real neat if you're into that. I left real quick (was on a diff team).

Heard on the pricing. For a while there was a vault starter pricing thing where you could get single instance vault for non-prod use for $25/mo and that was a good deal for our team.

But compare HCP with the speed Fly ships... just massive difference.

In fact, Fly is like the Hashi of old and may be the one company I wish I had not bailed on the interview process. Seems like a lot of great folks at Fly then and now.

(PS Hello sir! Long time no talk.)

It has been a while! I completely agree with Fly - Hashi clearly had smart people but it felt disorganized as a customer.

When its no longer profitable to write code, you write newsletters about writing code.

Lots of What (we made a disaster recovery region in US-West) with zero How. Cool, "deadlines are important."

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