Sequencer Alternatives

sequencer reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Kardinal – Building light-weight Kubernetes dev ephemeral environments
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2024

  Congratulations on shipping! I like how opinionated Kardinal is, which means it should work nicely for anyone who shares the same kind of infras vision as you.

  It's also such an interesting moment for you folks to show up on HN, I just shipped the first preview version of my Kubernetes operator(https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer) that manages ephemeral environments. I can see some things that are similar with both our options as well as some things that are quite different.

  Maybe if I had one question is: What made you go for Istio as the main network mesh?

  Good luck with the launch!

• Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2024

  It's always so enlightening to have articles like this one shed light on how companies at scale operate. It goes without saying that many of the problems Stripe faced with their monorepo isn't application to smaller businesses, but there are still bits and pieces that are applicable to many of us.

  I've been working on an ephemeral/preview environment operator for Kubernetes(https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer) and as I could agree to a lot of things OP said.

  I think dev boxes is really the way to go, specially with all the components that makes an application nowadays. But the latency/synchronization issue is a hard topic and it's full of tradeoff.

  A developer's laptop always ends up being a bespoke environment (yes, Nix/Docker can help with that), and so, there's always a confidence boost when you get your changes up on a standalone environment. It gives you the proof that "hey things are working like I expected them to".

• Letsencrypt Supports Wildcard Certificates
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2024

  That's great to see this show up today, I'm actually their wildcard certificate to build a DNS01 Challenge that connects cert-manager(ACME) and external-dns to create a fully open source "ephemeral environments" infrascture on top of Kubernetes (https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer).

  It's crazy to think that not too long ago, these certificates would cost a small fortune. I'm really grateful to anyone working on making this available for the world to use.

• Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2024

  I like your take on this. I think K8s offers a _lot_ and it has a bad reputation because of its early days. Kubernetes has room to improve, like everything else, but the API now are becoming a lot easier to work with and the Custom Resources allows folks to extend Kubernetes.

  I still think that projects like this one come from necessity. Folks want to have an alternative for vendor lock-in.

  I'm building something like that too (https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer) for Kubernetes, and it's also out of necessity.

  Vercel, Heroku and others have a lot of helpful tools that are empower developers, and I think people want to have those without being locked-in.

  It goes without saying that I'm totally bias :)

• A Better Way to Code: Documentation Driven Development
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2024

  I really love this idea in theory, and I believe that for some system, specially mature ones, it may work well. I see good documentation as a super power; it empowers readers and motivate people to understand more about the system without being caught in the weeds of reading the source.

  The source has baggages, and the intent of every single function calls is not always evident. Writing documentation up-front can help direct the source, but this is a tug-of-war environment. Each affect the other in its own ways.

  And for that reason, documentation driven development can be a real drag. You start writing documentation with the best intentions, everything works great for this first release. But 2 months down the road you need to modify something and it has a ripple effect on many of the things you documented. It's a non-negligible cost.

  I've been working on this open-source tool(https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer) and I've spent a lot of time on the documentation. And what I described above happened. I wanted to make a not-too-big change, and it required me to rewrite 30% of the documentation. I still love the documentation aspect of it, but it definitively has a cost.

• piku: The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2024

  First time I read about piku. I have no idea why, but the feeling of `git push` to initiate a deployment like piku does always felt magical to me. There's nothing simpler than that.

  This is timely for me as well as I just open sourced (yesterday!) a project that is in the same space, but for Kubernetes (https://github.com/pier-oliviert/sequencer).

  All of this to say, congrats! It looks great.

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