+ we can continuously let a LLM monitor our log files and alert/propose/fix issues 24/7. If intelligence becomes cheap enough this would be an enormous market.
Having a LLM run as "fact checker" /coach for everything that you write also would be a great addition.
> What I want is a lightweight infrastructure for macro-services. I want something to handle the user and machine-to-machine authentication (and maybe authorization).
> I don't WANT the usual K8s virtual network for that, just an easy-to-use module inside the service itself.
K8s makes sense if you have a dedicated team (or atleast engineer) and if you really need need the advanced stuff (blue/green deployments, scaling, etc). Once it's properly setup it's actually a very pleasant platform.
If you don't need that Docker (or preferable Podman) is indeed the way to go. You can actually go quite far with a VPS or a dedicated server these day. By the time you outgrow the most expensive server you can (reasonable) buy you can probably afford the staff to roll out a "big boy" infrastructure.
I tried to use K8s several times, and I just can't make it work. It's fine as a deployment platform, but I just can't justify its complexity for local development.
We're using Docker/Podman with docker-compose for local development, and I can spin up our entire stack in seconds locally. I can attach a debugger to any component, or pull it out of the Docker and just run it inside my IDE. I even have an optional local Uptrace installation for OTEL observability testing.
My problem is that our deployment infrastructure is different. So I need to maintain two sets of descriptions of our services. I'd love a solution that would unify them, but so far nothing...
I wouldn't use K8s for local development unless you have some system where there is a dev cluster and you can route traffic for particular pod to your local workstation.
Docker Compose for local development is fine. If your K8s setup is crazy complex that you need to test it locally, please stop.
Tilt? Skaffold? configuration isn't free, but a debugger on a local k8 cluster that's at least somewhat representative of prod is pretty handy once you do.
I tried Tilt, but it's still too complicated. For example, we have a computer vision model that is a simple Python service. When developing on macOS, it's not possible to use GPUs inside containers, so we need to run it locally on the host.
It's trivial with my current setup, but not really possible with Tilt.
I know this pain, though we’re running nomad not k8s as our cluster control plane. But local devs are stuck with docker-compose, so 2 different configurations for running locally versus in the production environment.
My first thought was that the sanctions are due to investigations into US presidents (like role of Bush in Second Gulf War or Obama/Clinton's role in Libyan Civil war) but it is due to Israel's PM. It's amazing how US admin is making their displeasure known in most destructive way (for their own and allies soft power) possible.
You're implying that the Swiss government blames the American people for the decisions of the presidential seat, a seat with minimal actual power and three years left in office.
I disagree with your guess. This judge was making a statement about how it's wrong for Netanyahu to judge the people of Gaza by its political leadership. It wouldn't make sense then for the Swiss government to judge the people of America by its political leadership. Such a hypocrisy would make the opposite political statement.
I think it's most likely because of the recent AWS and Cloudflare outages having exposed the fragility of SaaS.
I don't see any reason to project anti American sentiment onto the article where there was none.
In general a better option, in the early days of AI video I tried to generate a video of a golden retriever using Google's AI Studio. It generated 4 in the highest quality and charged me 36 bucks. Not a crazy amount but definitely an unwelcome suprise.
Fal.ai is pay as you go and has the cost right upfront.
Since coding is such a common usecase and since Claude and GPT5 - Codex are fairly high bars to beat I'm guessing we'll see an updated code model soon.
Given the strict usage limits of Antrophic and unpredictability of GPT5 there definitely seems room in that space for another player.
This is a very reasonable approach until somehow your competitors service loads twice as fast on the Vodafone Germany network.
As a business, at that point, you're basically extorted to pay the ransom or deal with a loss of revenue. Since the ransom is most likely lower it won't take long for your other competitors to start paying it as well leaving you with an objectively worse product, irrespective of your warning banner (which lefty Linda or Gradma Garry isn't going to understand).
While this is great when it works it does raise some interesting challenges, what happens if the ISP loses money, should taxes be used to cover the cost since this is a public service? Is it reasonable for this ISP to undercut commercial offerings? Internet is in a weird grey zone where it's almost a utility but not on the same level as water or sewage.
I'm glad this non-profit ISP exists but on a national level I would prefer (strong) net neutrality laws. Probably not an issue in NL but in less developed countries neutrality isn't guaranteed.
Usually these ISPs are part of or under the municipal utility provider. So if they lose money, it first gets offset by profits from other utilities and eventually yes, the taxpayer will step in, directly or indirectly. No big deal. No one is complaining about subsidies for water or power lines in rural areas, neither should they when it comes to internet. Remember: These ISPs were founded because the market was already failing to provide decent offers or any at all.
In Austria the Internet, like the postal service, is a Universal Service ("Universaldienst"). As such, any completely unserviced citizen can petition the current Finance Minister to decree an ISP of his choice - usually A1, which is the privatized form of our former public office for postal services and telegraphs - to service their area. The costs of facilitating the servicing of this area are covered by all active ISPs of a certain size operating in Austria.
Telecommunications law in Europe is a very interesting thing.
After a famously bad wind storm in 2008, my house (along with thousands of others) was without power for about two continuous weeks.
The internet connection, which was FTTN VDSL, never skipped a beat. It was completely solid.
This was accomplished by using batteries and generators.
The ISP was The Phone Company, so their Cold War-era central office had very good backup power.
The VRAD nodes scattered all over town had enough battery backup that (at least in my neighborhood) things stayed up until they brought out generators for those nodes.
And at my house, the VDSL box had its own UPS. And I also had a rather overkill UPS, and a portable generator
We ran the generator intermittently, mostly to charge batteries and chill down refrigerators.
It wasn't an awesome time. It was hot as hell. It was a pain in the ass to keep the generator fueled. We didn't even try to run the desktop PC rigs.
But, yeah: The internet was working fine.
(We charged batteries for neighbors, too. One or two neighbors also dragged over extension cords to run their own fridge. And I opened up the WiFi completely so everyone nearby could use it.
So if you were my neighbour in that 2008 power outage, I'd have just taken care of that internet problem for you. The range at 2.4GHz was amazingly good in that abnormally-quiet RF environment.)
When we loose power here internet usually works just fine. All you need is a generator and you're back up and running. Usually the POP still has power so this works for a long time. Sometimes they are or run out of (backup) power too if its widespread and prolonged. Cell service including LTE is usually still up / up for longer, so again as long as you have a generator, you're good.
One doesn't have to rely on others for power. One can run their own generator, or set up a solar power system, or if you live out in the sticks, run a mini hydro system or use wind power. All of these can provide power to the home.
There's voting with your wallet and voting with your, well, vote.
In some sense a democracy is also a market and can lead to efficient allocation of resources, particularly common resources for common good.
This is why public utilities tend to work so well in practice. People, especially in the US, don't seem to realise that such services are also subject to strong market forces, just a different kind of market.
Voters care a lot about good public services, and they also care a lot about not getting taxed much. This can lead to very efficient outcomes in well functioning democracies, often more efficient than those that come out of private enterprise, when it comes to services that most of the population needs.
If it loses money, do some combination of raising prices and cutting costs. Aim for an average of zero profit/loss over the long term. Undercutting commercial offerings is perfectly fine if it works out that way.
Having a LLM run as "fact checker" /coach for everything that you write also would be a great addition.
reply