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iOS devices are just not suitable for browsing the internet as we know it I'm afraid.
I will get another device for internet browsing on the go just because this is so annoying. Not even on iPad where you kind of have the real desktop browser experience you can use add-ons.
The question in most cases in my opinion is not "will there be a data breach?" but when it will occur. Leaving this kind of data on some servers of some company just opens the door for patients to be extorted etc. in the future.
I like the idea of apps and computers helping us with problems like that but in our world services and devices are just not trustworthy enough for my taste.
Maybe a desktop app on a device that has no internet connection would be a reasonable alternative.
I wish you good luck with your business though and keep my fingers crossed that somehow your data remains secure.
This is another step into the AMZN hell where many and their data will be held hostage decades from now if they only rely on their services.
They kill FOSS business models and try to lure you into their vendor locked world to milk you.
I prefer using e.g. Flask to build an API in <5min.
Big capital put this idea inside the heads of many people living in the West and until today they really believe there is countries who are socialist/communist. Neither the GDR nor the UDSSR or China are examples for countries like that and people who know about politics, economy and society know this as a fact.
It is easy for you to criticize all alternatives at once because you have never seen any and chose to believe what the ruling party (=capitalism) makes you believe.
Exactly this is why the motivation to do at least some things should not be bound to earning profit.
There is common goods that we need to share, global issues that need to be addressed together and we need to find ways to achieve this if we want to develop further as a civilization.
Money must not be the sole reason why we do things or we will fail with this "strategy" and we need to come up with good ideas for an alternative and try it.
I know this will probably not make me very popular especially with people living in the US as their minds are constantly being flooded with the idea that everything straying from capitalism is socialism and therefor evil. I will post it nevertheless, down-votes don't hurt and I will write my opinion until it is censored completely.
We are running a relatively small system on k8s. The cluster contains just a few nodes, a couple of which are serving web traffic and a variable number of others that are running background workers. The number of background workers is scaled up based on the amount of work to be done, then scaled down once no longer necessary. Some cronjobs trigger every once in a while.
It runs on GKE.
All of this could run on anything that runs containers, and the scaling could probably be replaced by a single beefy server. In fact, we can run all of this on a single developer machine if there is no load.
The following k8s concepts are currently visible to us developers: Pod, Deployment, Job, CronJob, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, Secret. The hardest one to understand is Ingress, because it is mapped to a GCE load balancer. All the rest is predictable and easy to grasp. I know k8s is a monster to run, but none of us have to deal with that part at all.
Running on GKE gives us the following things, in addition to just running it all, without any effort on our part: centralized logging, centralized monitoring with alerts, rolling deployments with easy rollbacks, automatic VM scaling, automatic VM upgrades.
How would we replace GKE in this equation? what would we have to give up? What new tools and concepts would we need to learn? How much of those would be vendor-specific?
If anyone has a solution that is actually simpler and just as easy to set up, I'm very much interested.
Yes but that is also the worst already that you could criticize about k8s.
Complexity is dangerous because if things are growing beyond a certain threshold X you will have side effects that nobody can predict, a very steep learning curve and therefor many people screwing up something in their (first) setups as well as maintainability nightmares.
Probably some day someone will prove me wrong but right now one of my biggest goals to improve security, reliability and people being able to contribute is reducing complexity.
After all this is what many of us do when they refactor systems.
I am sticking with the UNIX philosophy at this point and in the foreseeable future I will not have a big dev-team at my disposal as companies like Alphabet have to maintain and safe-guard all of this complexity.
2. I said "iOS devices are just not suitable for browsing the internet as we know it I'm afraid."
I know it is hyperbolic. This is called rhetorical style and I used it to communicate my irritation with the status quo of the internet itself (no joy browsing without ad-blocker etc.) and browsing the internet with iOS specifically (no desktop-like browser experience, no uBlock, no web developer toolbar).
It seems clear that this is my opinion so if you thing otherwise please argue against it or stay quiet (and do not down-vote without explanation like a coward who cannot argue like a grown up).
3. "... people snap..."
So this is reason enough to act like this? In my opinion this does not contribute to a good communication culture.