unhingedlife

This is obviously the first time a big Silicon Valley company took back the free lunch and slapped a price tag on it. How could we have ever learned our lesson before this?

Then don't use those projects, or build them yourself, or use non-Docker options. I'm aghast that people think they need an expensive, bloated container runtime to run software. It's never been necessary.

Amazing that HN doesn't realize that transit networking is actually not expensive at all. You can saturate a gigabit connection at a colo for pennies, but nobody blogged about that, so nobody knows it's an option.

None of this is simple. Fortunately, we're experts whose job it is to do this kind of work. People! You are not helpless!

1. Don't use Docker; you don't need it. People were hosting things successfully long before Docker. 2. Host a mirror. 3. Rack a server and stop paying insane egress costs and padding the profit margins of grifters.

"They hated him because he spoke the truth."

I love how everyone is arguing about networking costs inside the tiny prison cell is "the cloud". Because obviously the only way to push bits over the wire is through an AWS Internet Gateway, which was the very first packet-switched routing ever.

Transit is cheap (and gets cheaper every year), cloud markups and profit margins are expensive. Like, you can still rack a server and pay peanuts for the networking, but that isn't covered in a Medium post, so nobody knows how to do it anymore.