Article doesn’t really tell what fundamental problems will be solved, except fancy VM allocation. Nothing about hardware, networking, reliability, tooling and such. Well, nice, good luck.

Much respect for the ambitous plan, I wish I could do such bold thinking. I am running a small PHP PaaS (fortrabbit) for more than 10 years. For me, it's not only "scratch your own itch", but also "know your audience". So, a limited feature set with a high level of abstraction can also be useful for some users > clear path.

Have we already forgotten about the NSA's "SSL added and removed here! :)" slide that Snowden showed us?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6641378

“Everything is shit. Believe me. We will do something better, just believe me.”

Jokes aside: - k8s is insane peace of software. A right tool for a big problem. Not for your toys. Yes, it is crazy difficult to setup and manage. Then what?

- cloud has bad and slow disk. BS. They have perfectly fast NVME.

Something else? That’s it.

Why I am so confident? I used to setup and manage kubernetes for 2 years. I have some experience. Do I use it more? Nope. Not a right tool for me. Ansible with some custom Linux tools fits better for Me.

I also build my own cloud. But if I say it less loud: hosting to host websites for https://playcode.io. Yea, it is hard and with a lot of compromises. Like networking, yes I want to communicate between vms in any region. Or disks and reliability. What about snapshots? And many bare metal renters gives only 1Gbt/s. Which is not fine. Or they ask way more for 10Gbt uplink. So it is easy to build some limited and unreliable shit or non scalable.

Wondering what runtime is the infra under the hood. Firecracker? Traditional VM? Docker Containers?

Let me see if I understand it. The TL;DR is that instead of asking for VMs and fit things there you reserve the CPU and RAM and do with that whatever you want? Number of mVMs, etc.?

I welcome the initiative but it’s pretty costly compared to the bare metal cloud providers. So the value as to be the platform as service too.

How difficult is it to build a second startup on the side?

You can run several VM's or containers with isolation on your phone hardware, why even use the cloud when you just want to show your friends?

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