The gp comment made it sound like something americans just choose, when the reality of the situation is it is a necessary part of life. The people participating in it didn’t make this choice. Literally everyone wants something better and no one wants to be beholden to $6 gas prices.

where?

As this article notes, the fact customers got their money back was a happy coincidence. He had no legal right to use customer funds in the way that he did. I thought he'd honestly get more than 25 years.

I had dismal hopes of it working for very long but it's remained mostly untouched going on 3 years now which really surprised me, and it's been easy to work with. I think if you run EKS resources like node groups, autoscalers, LB type of resources in the same state file as helm deployments you're going to have a very bad time though.

I to this date have not seen a viable drop in replacement to how I’ve seen big orgs use the ingress controller stack with the gateway api and what i understand currently is ingate is basically DOA.

Pretty much, almost. Have spent a bunch of time in my career working on the "VM + systemd" setups, stuff running on a rack, or in an ec2 on cloud - managed kubernetes is a lot better for me than those cobbled together messes. There's "easier" setups but usually end up costing me a lot more in time and $.

To answer simply, it became good + convenient. I could complain about plenty, and people here like to, but honestly you couldn't pay me to go back to the old way. The one legitimate gripe is the upgrade schedule is exhausting, on AWS it's about every 6 months before you go into extended support. I also hate being at the mercy of arbitrary decisions like "ok we know a huge chunk of the web going back a decade has architected off our Ingress API, but recently we decided we dont really like that way anymore and we want you to use Gateway API instead, so, um, like ya we know it just killed off one of the most used open source ingress configs (ingress-nginx) but yea trust us bro this is going to be so much better" kind of thing.

I was believing I was working on something very important as one of the initial hires in a 10 person standup, with series B funding "on the way any minute now," knew it was a risk but believed strongly in the tech, maybe naively.

Found out later, the CEO had been given a generous buyout offer by a competitor, in the 8 figures, a modest amount but far exceeding our level of debt/investment to that point, would have made several of us including him a decent chunk of change. This guy got it in his head at that point that the offer was insulting, and we should be worth billions, not this 'paltry' sum. I could barely believe it when I heard it way after the fact (I would have quit earlier if I had known). What I understand is the board of investors was not very happy with this and there would be no more funding to come in after that point. Within 6 months of that, I went from this bright eyed person to a person not receiving a paycheck for several months, wiping out my early-grad finances in record time, and a significant amount of debt, all the while they shopped our team around the country desperately looking for a buyer. (they did not find one and had to borrow more money to pay our wages).

Needless to say after that I resolved never ever ever to work at any kind of 'startup' ever again, and my career many years later has finally recovered (though my cynicism has not).

It's frankly a delusion many americans still hold that they can somehow vote their way out of this situation. I don't know how at all it is salvageable, I think best case for Americans and probably the world is that we slowly lose all relevance until the powers that be get bored and go prey elsewhere.

this literally already exists if you’re willing to maintain your own physical infra, and has for a long time - nothing aws does is that innovative software wise. maybe their managed k8s eliminates a ton of pain, but I dont know. it’s the reliability guarantee + support + not having to maintain physical servers. if youre willing to shirk all that and do it yourself why would you want aws? lol

tldr; was laughing at the xy vibe of the ask

You see this pattern of "make fire, put it out, get rewarded" a lot on devops type teams, almost always by the lead (IME). Often it is very difficult to determine customer impact of these types of events, especially if monitoring/alerting is lacking (very common), and even if it isn't, often these same teams have the ability to turn those knobs any way they want anyway.

I don't know how many other companies are doing this, but at least where I am, I have seen the total opposite behavior. They are very pleased with the results of AI and eager to hire.