Xenobroom Inc., a young startup fresh out of Silicon Valley started a lengthy process of upgrading their server infrastructure back in May 2020. According to the remaining fragments of CEO's daily journal and CTO's engineering notes, the company enjoyed a sharp rise in daily use in the midst of the global pandemic. Soon after, the decision to migrate the existing infrastructure to Kubernetes was made.

The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.

  • @fruitycoder
    31•3 months ago

    Some on here once described the idea of an innovation budget. Basically you can do about 3 new things at once before you forget what the hell you are doing and that has made so much sense to me.

      • @fruitycoder
        7•3 months ago

        I’ll honest I was so tired that I barely got out that last sentence as I was typing.

    • @[email protected]
      6•3 months ago

      It’s not that you forget what you are doing.

      It’s that all the unknown problems start interfering with each other, so you can’t manage to do anything.

      • @fruitycoder
        2•3 months ago

        That is probably most common! The forgetting what you are doing part probably only comes so far down the road of trying to make a system that works despite all the interferences.