To be fair, they kind of have to pivot from search at this point. More and more people are using alternative ways to find information. That cash cow is dying.
Well, that's good to hear. Maybe I only see people post when things aren't working, because that's when people are most likely to post. This project mentions geo replication, does Minio replicate as well?
Creating your swap as 2x your RAM is outdated advice. Now it's essentially changed to be 2x until 4GB of RAM, then 1x until 8GB, and anything over 8GB just use 4GB of swap because you probably have enough RAM. Or, even some modern systems like Fedora will swap to zRAM. Which is just a highly compressed portion of RAM.
Yep, some people sort of miss the point of microservices and make some fairly monolithic containers. Or they're legacy apps being shoehorned into a container. Some things still require handholding. FreeIPA is a good example. They have a container version, but it's just a monolithic install in a container and only recommended for testing.
Containerfiles are super easy to write. For the most part if you can do it in a VM, you can do it in a container. This sort of thing is why you would move to containers. Instead of being the "expert" in all the apps you run, you can focus on the things that actually need your attention.
If you mean self-checkout, they're not being replaced by machines they're being replaced by you. It's just more shadow work you are expected to do for free.
I literally get paid to do this type of work and there is no way for me to be an expert in all the services that our platform runs. Again, that's kind of the point. Let the person who writes the container be the expert. I'll provide the platform, the maintenance, upgrades, etc.. the developer can provide the expertise in their app.
Correct, not all containers are for services. I would never say that docker is superior. I would however say that containers are (I can be pedantic too). They're version-controlled, they come with the correct dependencies, etc... There are many reasons why developing with containers is superior and I'm sure you're aware of them already. Everyone is moving to do exactly that. There are always edge cases, but those are few and far between these days.
Oh... Yeah I wouldn't expect those would be good. Honestly I started at TNG.