[Discuss] systemd sucks and containers suck and language-specific package repos suck

[Kent Borg]

On 9/15/26 9:20 AM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> I can't think of any large production environment today that is not based
> on VMs.

Circa 2009 I was working for a company that had a couple of pretty 
crucial production Windows servers, running out of RAM because of bad 
database design, in a colo, and getting crispy such that pushing new RAM 
into one of the machines broke it.

My plan was to quickly put a pair of Supermicro servers there, migrate 
the current software into VMs so they could be given more RAM, moved 
between the two as necessary, be backed up, etc.

When I described the plan to the legacy developer closest to the 
project, he had no idea what I was talking about, but he could tell that 
I was rocking the boat.

I never got the chance to do it. I think that was one of the many times 
I was on the dumped end of a layoff.


-kb