Apache Mesos to be moved to Attic
I preferred Mesos to k8s. I think it&#x27;s core architecture (a 2-level scheduler) is a better foundation. For the longest time, I felt k8s was effectively an overgrown hobby project that had no place being deployed the way it was. That had me realize something in the shower this morning:<p>k8s is the Rails of the cloud.<p>Back when Rails came out, it too was a bit of a hobby project. When coming from more established enterprise web frameworks, Rails felt like a toy. It didn&#x27;t have the features, robustness, safety, and scalability of &quot;proper&quot; frameworks.<p>What did Rails do? It was easy to get started and it hid a lot of the boring and painful work of web frameworks at the time.<p>Through the sheer force of will of a massive community, Rails grew up and became something more the toy it started as. I was pretty arrogant in my opinions about the Rails community at first, but then I ended up working on several Rails projects over the years.<p>It still hides a lot under the hood, there are still arguably better technical frameworks out there and plenty of folks use it improperly, when they don&#x27;t need to, and without really understanding the fundamentals, meaning that they tend to get in trouble when pushing the limits or moving outside the golden path of development.<p>And I feel the same way about k8s. I think it started out without anywhere near the features of similar frameworks. It didn&#x27;t scale well, was simplistic in it&#x27;s model, and overly complicated in it&#x27;s implementation. But it was much more approachable than something like Mesos and answered the question of &quot;why am I containerizing everything?&quot;, giving everything a purpose to those who started down the path of Docker. And now it has a huge following and industry behind it.<p>At this point, I&#x27;ve learned that what becomes popular isn&#x27;t necessarily the &quot;right&quot; or &quot;correct&quot; architecture. There&#x27;s a lot more to programming trends (and fads) than that. The whole industry seems to want to reinvent the wheel every decade, almost like some sort of planned obsolescence to justify our work. Nevertheless, it&#x27;s rarely wise to fight against the tide and when you have the enough of the industry moving in a direction, we can make even toys into real tools.