On 25/2/24 07:05, Jo Durchholz wrote: > On 24.02.24 20:19, Paul Vixie wrote: >> <<OTOH Firecracker is very new, so I'm somewhat reluctant to jump that >> bandwagon anyway.>> >> >> Not new. Been in production for years now. > > I admit I was going by assumptions, based on the fact I had never heard > about it before, despite having been in the CI/CD treadmill for a few > years. > >> https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker > > Hm. > V 1.0.0 came out in Jan/Feb 2022, so in that sense, it's somewhat new. > > Might have been in production use in pre-1.0.0 versions, of course. > I tend to assume software exists starting with 1.0.0, pre-1.0 versions > tend to be very experimental and/or require handholding by the engineers > that are building it. > Of course, for a shop like AWS, that's not always the most accurate > assumption :-)
Took me a while, but I have let go of waiting for 1.0 releases. If it works - use it, if it breaks - help make it better, otherwise you just re-invent the wheel to get what you want. How long was openssl in wide use before 1.0 ? There is always something to fix and something to add. Tagging a release or build as v1.0 is only a decision, it isn't a certainty of stability. I have about 20% of installed pkgs with a version starting with 0 -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler
