I mean, look at Kubernetes though. You have to understand both the application and the infrastructure in order to get the deployment right. Especially in any instance of having to pin the runtime to any type of resource (certain disk writing, GPUs, etc).

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verdverm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's not a kubernetes specific issue. If you run on VMs or Edge, devs also need to know the resource requirements. If anything, k8s makes that consistent and as easy as setting a config section (assuming you have the observability to know what good values are). The default behavior I've seen is to set reqs w/o lims so you get Sche'd but not OOM'd

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firesteelrain 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My experience has been that devs don’t understand their own app resource requirements

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ramoz 7 hours ago | parent [-]

This would be considered a failure, or are you saying they don't need to?

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firesteelrain 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I am saying that in my experience they get upset when the VM or container they provision blows up because it lacks enough resources or they do not place guardrails on their app and end up getting OOMKilled.

	▲	silverquiet 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think my favorite interaction with a dev around this was when I was explaining how his java program looked like a big juicy target for the OOM killer and it had killed it in order to keep the system working. His response was, "I don't care about the system, I care about my program!" And he understood the irony of that, but it was a good reminder that we have somewhat different views and priorities.
	▲	Spivak 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And that frustration makes sense in the context of the article. Devs don't care about any of that stuff because they're customer facing, it's a distraction from their primary responsibility. It would be like asking an Amazon delivery drivers to care about oil changes and tire rotations. It's much easier to have a team of mechanics whose primary responsibility is enabling drivers to just drive and focus on delivering packages.