I have the same question. WeaveWorks has another project called footloose which allows docker containers to be used like VMs. Also dead.

The only other project/company (aside from Kata) promoting firecracker was Talos. But not sure if they maintain their integration still.

https://www.talos.dev/v1.2/reference/cli/#talosctl-cluster-c...

Talos no longer supports creating a cluster automatically in a firecracker VM (which you can still do in docker, via `talosctl cluster create`) but you can certainly run Talos Linux in firecracker VMs and create a cluster that way.

Interesting. So Talos is both a Linux and a k8s distribution?

I am less interested in running k8s itself in Firecracker (or kata, or similar), but the pods started by it. I think there are advantages to that.

You confuse flexible working hours with a demand to work more than 40 hours a week (including nights and weekends).

If you (like to) work overtime on the weekend or week nights, I hope you are compensated well.

Just take into account that there’s a cap on what you can do and no amount of money will make up for that.

Hey — I am part of this journey and currently support the Bunch team in the role of the CTO. If anyone has questions, I am happy to answer them. :)

That's cool :-)

What is your tech stack now?

Do you already have ideas on how to evolve your tech stack when introducing the Android version in the future?

Current tech stack is:

The iOS-Frontend is UIKit and RxSwift. The backend is pretty lean — TypeScript, Firestore with the beginnings of PostgreSQL (with Prisma!). The recommender piece for the daily tips is Python. We also use cloud functions to run async updates (e.g. for daily updates and migrations).

Otherwise — lots of hosted services in the mix (Brave, Circle/Github, HoneyComb to name a few).

As for the future, we're exploring Flutter and a few other options to provide different experiences.

How do you backup this database? Does it integrate with iCloud or whatever is available on the device?

The database is stored in a single file that is easily backed up. It does not have any explicit integration with iCloud, but you can easily use it to back up a copy of the db, or you can stream the copy back home yourself via ftp or http.

I'm somewhat of a newbie in regards to developing on mobile devices. Got any documentation how this is done from the phone?

I'm Kenneth at Realm. As realm databases are files on the phone's file system, you can use the common classes for manipulating them. To do a backup, the NSFileManager class might be useful (the copyItemAtURL method might be what you're looking for). See https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/... for details.

I would like to see IAM as well, but I would say that the solution right now is using a seperate account and using AWS MFA:

http://aws.amazon.com/mfa/

A new account doesn't have all AWS services enabled by default, so the impact seems minimal to start with. Not sure if you can lock this down further as I haven't looked into it.

All in all this is not perfect, but "securer".

In general, and especially for people freelancing in Germany, I'd add: Not getting a tax consultant.

I'm pretty sure this is the same everywhere, but regardless, it's the first thing I tell people which they have to get in order so they don't get screwed later on. ;)

I agree with this. Call servers after their purpose. I don't grow attached to servers anymore — especially in the cloud.

It looks like there's two types of answers in this thread, and the difference between them is whether their infrastructure is cloud-based or running in a datacenter:

- Cloud: "Who cares? Name them after pokemon or dinosaurs, you can always reprovision and they won't last very long."

- Datacenter: "But what if the name doesn't make sense 16 months from now??"

I'm not a Jira fan, but TCO usually includes more than just the actual price of the product. So e.g. setup, maintenance and ongoing support. :)

Thanks Amazon?

This is probably in reference to Amazon forbidding the use of another software load balancer than ELB.

I also read on reddit that there is in fact just ELB. Especially when if you require a loadbalancer and don't host on AWS, you're pretty much screwed.

[Note, sarcasm.]

> Data are encrypted directly by the provider, which means customers need no specific technical know-how and incur no extra costs. All data are stored in secure data centers located in Germany.

Not sure how this is the solution. People need to learn how to do encryption themselves. For the average John Doe (or Hans Wurst :-)) there need to be tools to accomplish that without a degree in Math or CS.

I don't think provider-side encryption is a solution at all. Collecting vast amounts of meta data would still be possible.