Looking at the recent Docker Compose commits, kbin should scale horizontally until it hits limits of postgres.
Its a really good candidate for kubernetes, if you deploy on AWS/Azure and use AKS/EKS with Azure Database/RDS you will be able to flexibly scale far beyond those limits.
I have been meaning to learn Helm for ages. This seems a good excuse.
I googled American foods and decided to pick accurate but different names.
Sausage in a bun is a hot dog. Its the name CMOT Dibbler gave them
Club Sandwich is what Americans call a Chicken BLT
Your Sausage patty comment brings out a great example because you can place them in a bread roll/bap.
So you could technically call saussages in a bread roll a sausage roll (after all when you put bacon in, its called a bacon roll). However most people know a saussage roll as a saussage wrapped in savoury pastry. It's a completely different dish.
The purpose of my home computer is to help me work or play games. I don't want to expend effort updating/fixing my computer.
I would use Ubuntu but Snaps is impossible to turn off and they are insanely slow. CentOS/RHEL/Rocky seem to make every package require a full Gnome install and I use KDE. That only leaves OpenSUSE and the multi arch Debian installer makes installing Debian easier than OpenSUSE.
I think every article is missing a key issue and no one has asked Spez yet..
If 3rd Party Apps and AI services are making millions (as he asserts) why isn't Reddit competing in those areas?
3rd Party Apps aren't in a war of new features, putting a 5-10 person development team together to analyse the competitor apps and match the features would kill off the unique selling point of the 3rd Party Apps. Why hasn't Reddit done this?
LLM aren't new, the first appeared in 2018. Why hasn't Reddit assembled a team to exploit their own data? In my experience 1 data scientist backed by 2 software engineers can do a lot. It isn't a huge amount of people needed.
Even if you buy his argument that they companies are profiting from Reddit, Reddit is a platform those companies are building value from. Reddit isn't providing those services and so those companies profits aren't "stolen" from Reddit.
It's like company who sells art supplies. They sell them to a painter for £100, then a painter sells their artwork for £1000. The art supply company then gets upset it didn't get £1000 for its supplies.
I think what he is trying to say is people focus on various weaknesses as if they undermine Flatpak, when choices have been made for solid reasons.
His last part is really referencing how containerization has been really helpful but...
Docker has succeed because it wraps a self contained service so its easy to deploy and ensured repeatability.
When you work in operations you might have 10/100/1000 servers to look after. You lack time to care for each server individually so you do the minimum needed for deployment (e.g. similar to branding a cattle). Docker makes this easier.
However Flatpak hits a big problem, most desktop applications are built on GUI frameworks, many have multiple touch points with a desktop environment.
They aren't small self contained objects, so by shipping them with all the libraries you would create a huge attack area/security vulnerability.
So Flatpaks wrap all those libraries as seperate dependencies. So installing a Flatpak application often means installing an entire desktop environment (now you have two). This obviously uses more RAM and storage and with everything the application loads its slower and can struggle to integrate with your desktop.
There isn't a magic fix for this, probably the best solution is for someone to build a tool that can translate a flatpak into a build the big distributions (Arch, Debian, RHEL, Suse & Ubuntu).