Cisco to buy Splunk for $28bn. Something's not right about this. Let me think out loud here.
First Splunk is a logging tool. And they are great at it. Always been a shining star in what they do. Their tool was better at all the competitors right away and they knew it. They've also been super involved with the community. Many of my shirts and dinners have been courtesy of Splunk.
I asked their leadership back in 2010, how have you not been acquired yet? Your company rocks. He said, that's not what their goal is. They want to be the next leader, not be picked up by one.
Soon after that they IPO'd. Then they started acquiring company after company. I think they acquired 10 companies now? And have given over $100M to charity.
Surely they must have had many very exciting offers to be acquired. But firmly were saying no to them all. Because that's not what they wanted to do.
In 2019 their valuation was $35 billion. With no slow down in sight (til pandemic hit). Last year their revenue was $3bn. They are absolutely not needing money. They are earning it hand over fist.
Now Cisco comes and offers them $28bn and they take it? I don't get it. And we are all sad to see this because Cisco stopped innovating decades ago and just acquires companies to stay fresh then does nothing with them. So this is the peak for Splunk. That's it. And I was rooting for them to do so much more.
My guess is that the original leadership of the company changed. The ethos changed. The drive, the passion, the excitement ran out among leadership. They don't need money, they don't need this "partnership". I think what they needed was a sabbatical. Recover from the burnout or whatever it was they needed to replenish their energy to get back in the game and make a ruckus.
In Kubernetes, you can use labels to assign key-value pairs to any resources.
Labels are ubiquitous and necessary to everyday operations such as creating services.
However, how should you name and use those labels?
/1 𝐈𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭?
The diagram below shows why 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 applications should not use microservice architecture.