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To give engineering, platform, and other teams a (multi-cloud) cost monitoring that is standardized across all major providers...

I've actually worked with 100+ companies that use labels heavily. It's way more common when you have multiple engineering teams and nobody everybody knows all projects in a cluster. Also, it's common to start with namespace labels which are generally easier to manage.

Yeah, I agree. I actually think that labels are a much better fit for this reference.

> Instead, Kubernetes annotations are meant for sharing information with other colleagues. For example, you may use an annotation to record the phone number of the person responsible for a pod

But it can be super helpful to put owner/contact info for alerting purposes as teams scale.

I also agree that having this metadata on the controller is helpful.

Thanks, simonebrunozzi!

With a growing number of teams using Prometheus-based observability solutions, we've seen more and more integrating Kubecost with their existing Prometheus. The majority still use our bundled offering, which is typically a little easier to setup, but many likely the flexibility to switch if desired.

There would be a number of differences with these products. First, Kubecost does not egress any data from your infrastructure, it's based on open source technologies (e.g. Prometheus), and because it is build specifically for Kubernetes it takes a pretty different approach for determining the cost of a tenant, workload, etc.

Disclaimer: I'm a founder of Kubecost.

I agree that appropriate configuration/policy management is part of the solution for preventing these attacks on Kubernetes, but our view is that monitoring also plays an important role.

Today kubecost is different in a number of ways 1) open source with easy installation 2) exclusively focused on kubernetes-centric infrastructure and 3) offers a fully deployed solution.

Giving out stock can be far from free..

Matt, my recommendation would be to address your parents' situation before trying to handle everything going on in your personal life. If they approaching a condition where they will be unable to take care of themselves there are ways to respectfully bring this to their attention. You will get your career back on track. But you may not get your parents back on track if they injure themselves due to lack of assistance as one of my grandparents did.

Not much different than building an iPhone interface programmatically. They recently bundled the GWT Designer, which is a WYSIWYG layout tool. UiBinder is another option that let's you build interfaces in XML.

Strange. What browser? Just tested in chrome, safari, and firefox and it works fine.

I know this is a broad statement on my part. Apples says the following in the hello world tutorial, "In general, however, you should try to avoid using autorelease wherever possible since it means memory may be reclaimed later than it would be if you used release."

I don't know the history here, but based on the autopool directives it looks like they toyed with the idea.

Fair enough. Have any advice on improving my next post?

For us it has directly impacted how we approach incorporating feedback into our product. Appropriately responding to user suggestions is arguably the most difficult problem our startup and many others will face. We test and release many experiential features, but we have become harsh critics for keeping features on board. I can’t think of a more impactful lesson so far. Is this not as meaningful as I think?

Both sound like good ways to get comfortable with determining a value for the equity. Appreciate the insight.

Didn't realize costs for a preferred round we so high. Looking to apply to YC and others next year. Thanks.

Rereading the title I agree that it could be stated more clearly.

Yes, I don't think they have ruled whether Goldman's SPV will be viewed as a single investor. If it's not it may eventually force Facebook to go public.

I don't see how Facebook trading privately would directly impact our access to capital. What is most important is that early stage investors are able to get attractive exits. SecondMarket allowed Accel to do exactly that. I view this as a great thing for us, because now those VC investors are unlikely to apply pressure for an IPO when the entrepreneur doesn't want one.

Mark Suster has several articles and videos on the subject. This might be a good starting point.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/08/30/is-convertible...