It's super neat! Just like Kubernetes is also super neat at what it can do. It's super neat primarily because consuming it is so easy, provided you already have all the same abstraction layers in place in your infra.
You...do have all the same abstraction layers, right? No? Oh. Well, don't worry, Google/Amazon/Microsoft can sell you those if you don't want to pay your IT staff to prop it up for you.
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Look, snark aside, yours is the correct take. Google's solutions are amazing, but they're also built for an organization as large and complex as Google. Time will tell if this is an industry-standard abstraction (a la S3 APIs) or just a Google product for Google-like orgs/functions (a la K8s).
[primary author and architect of scion here] Part of this will be pushing that cognitive overhead increasingly onto agents. By how much and when is what Scion is here to explore.
I think most of the legacy companies that can benefit from Kubernetes don't use it, while most of the companies that are using it are startups doing it for the résumé.
This is the exact opposite of my experience. Maybe it was true 10 years ago when K8s was new and trendy so many engineers wanted to try it out. Now it's just boring tech at large orgs.
Slightly trailing off from your focus, but hopefully within the same sentiment (that k8s was good, albeit an exception)
I would place Google ADK in alignment with Kubernetes more than this project, for the well designed abstractions, the controlplane, and handling the boring parts that every alternative will at maturity.
I can see the agent framework ignorance to the container analogy about what's running inside. ADK lacks the ability to run any agent tool, but you can build most of this projects controlplane on top of it with minimal effort, most of the bookkeeping is there already. It's more about what experience you want to have.
k8s is simple because it offload some key tasks to 3rd party like network and storage; it is not easy to: a) setup and maintain a k8s cluster with all necessary components from at least a dozen different sources b) design your application to be k8s native
It's super neat! Just like Kubernetes is also super neat at what it can do. It's super neat primarily because consuming it is so easy, provided you already have all the same abstraction layers in place in your infra.
You...do have all the same abstraction layers, right? No? Oh. Well, don't worry, Google/Amazon/Microsoft can sell you those if you don't want to pay your IT staff to prop it up for you.
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Look, snark aside, yours is the correct take. Google's solutions are amazing, but they're also built for an organization as large and complex as Google. Time will tell if this is an industry-standard abstraction (a la S3 APIs) or just a Google product for Google-like orgs/functions (a la K8s).
[primary author and architect of scion here] Part of this will be pushing that cognitive overhead increasingly onto agents. By how much and when is what Scion is here to explore.
Like Kubernetes?
I think most of the legacy companies that can benefit from Kubernetes don't use it, while most of the companies that are using it are startups doing it for the résumé.
This is the exact opposite of my experience. Maybe it was true 10 years ago when K8s was new and trendy so many engineers wanted to try it out. Now it's just boring tech at large orgs.
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This is not 2015.
Yes, and unironically.
Slightly trailing off from your focus, but hopefully within the same sentiment (that k8s was good, albeit an exception)
I would place Google ADK in alignment with Kubernetes more than this project, for the well designed abstractions, the controlplane, and handling the boring parts that every alternative will at maturity.
I can see the agent framework ignorance to the container analogy about what's running inside. ADK lacks the ability to run any agent tool, but you can build most of this projects controlplane on top of it with minimal effort, most of the bookkeeping is there already. It's more about what experience you want to have.
And angular.
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kubernetes isnt difficult
k8s is simple because it offload some key tasks to 3rd party like network and storage; it is not easy to: a) setup and maintain a k8s cluster with all necessary components from at least a dozen different sources b) design your application to be k8s native
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really?
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100%. Great assessment.