£140 for a bulk roll of my beloved FP4+. Should i go for Kentmere for £80 instead! Foma is £50'ish, and I do use it in 4x5, I just don't trust the quality control.
Maybe all the AI agent hype is a new revolution in software development productivity. But if all the hypesters are to be believed, surely all this would be happening "on the blockchain" (whatever the F anyone ever thought that was supposed to mean).
My only point being... writing blogs, and giving tech talks about what's the latest hot thing in tech is a far more exciting and profitable businesses than the reality of building and running software. Always has been.
That's not a critique of those two tools. Prom is great, and k8s is at least as bad as the equivalent tools of the time. If Prom won it was because it was easy for Ops people to install. Everywhere I've worked with it, you could have fitted everyone actually writing queries into a broom cupboard. k8s won primarily due to marketing and scale (not usage scale, having google behind it helped was hard to compete against).
Thinking about the phrase "we are seeing..." used in the tech industry to validate some tool usage ("agents" being the current thing). At one place I worked we used to run occasional tech meetups. I attended a few, two in particular, one on Prometheus, and one on Kubernetes. We were heavy users of both and did some interesting stuff. In both cases, about 5% of attendees were active users of the tools. More often than not, "we are seeing" means "we are seeing blog posts".
