[HN Gopher] Show HN: Open-Source, AI Powered Notebooks for SRE T...
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Show HN: Open-Source, AI Powered Notebooks for SRE Teams
Swap Runbooks for Notebooks and solve your incidents faster
Author : absaxenahn
Score : 33 points
Date : 2023-05-23 14:16 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (unskript.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (unskript.com)
| elintknower wrote:
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| vector_spaces wrote:
| None of the text on the landing page makes it clear what this is
| about other than the downright bizarre lip service about the
| "open source community" -- like, ok, that's nice, but I'm on this
| page because I want to know what this is, and I'm not going to
| invest more than a handful of seconds to figure that out. At this
| point knowing you care about the "open source community" means
| nothing to me, and you don't have any other information on this
| page other than your "open source community" lip service
|
| The GH repo is somewhat better, but you have to figure that some
| (most?) people aren't going to bother to scroll below the fold --
| which is just a listing of folders/files in the project root --
| to see what this is even about. It's not an ideal target for your
| "Learn More" cta.
|
| Either way, this really needs screenshots or some sort of visual
| demo to make it clear what value this adds and what usecases it
| fits, and all of that should be prioritized over the weird open
| source lip service
| qumpis wrote:
| First thing on their page (on mobile) is "start free trial".
| Github is also all-text and seemingly no demo. Not really
| attractive to new users..
| no-reply wrote:
| The github repo: https://github.com/unskript/Awesome-CloudOps-
| Automation
| mdaniel wrote:
| It's a good thing they called themselves "CloudOps" and not
| "DevOps" because I struggle to think of any sane reason to
| write code like this
|
| https://github.com/unskript/Awesome-CloudOps-Automation/blob...
|
| (setting aside the lack of try:finally: to close those cursors
| or why one needs a commit for a SELECT statement)
| 2023throwawayy wrote:
| Phrases like `Start Free Trial` and `Book a Demo` with no page
| called `Pricing` does not engender trust.
| groby_b wrote:
| Yup. Same reaction. No explanation + "Book a Demo" -> KTHXBYE
| lmeyerov wrote:
| Confusingly, there is a Apache licensed repo you can find
| linked at the bottom of the site, except the files are
| individually relicensed, eg,
| https://github.com/unskript/Awesome-CloudOps-
| Automation/blob...
|
| The concept is interesting. In our experience with regular
| and top teams trying to do notebooks for runbooks.. there are
| a lot of gaps around the Jupyter UI specifically and the
| concept in general. It's a fascinating problem to work on.
| IceWreck wrote:
| I'm sorry but do you really expect engineers to create workflows
| on the graphical interface by clicking a button, choose from
| options, choose conditions and iterators ?
|
| Your target audience - SRE Teams are engineers who would give up
| on using this in five minutes. They can accomplish the same thing
| using ansible, etc which they can configure using a text editor,
| mix with real programming languages where needed, store in
| version control and run using both a terminal and a GUI if
| needed.
|
| Docs for anyone else who can't figure out what this actually does
| from the homepage. https://docs.unskript.com/unskript-product-
| documentation/gui...
|
| Also, where does "AI" come in ? Also who uses jupyter notebooks
| to run production code.
| KnownSubset wrote:
| The uncompressed size of the docker image is over 5 GB. That is
| sad.
| bdsa wrote:
| If you asked me, I would advise as strongly as possible that you
| stop using the term "legos" for a class of component.
|
| 1. We all know what the owners of the trademark will do when they
| find it (justifiably, perhaps)
|
| 2. The plural of Lego is Lego - legos makes me wince every time I
| read it
|
| Just call them blocks?
|
| As for what this does... kind of an interesting idea, but I feel
| like the overlapping set of "people who need to do this sort of
| operation" and "people who want to build these in a UI rather
| than write a script" is pretty small.
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| hnshitpostt wrote:
| An AI powered noetbook? Great! Does it also use the blockchain? I
| need blockchain too. Also serverless internet of things devices
| to devops the synergy of my team.
| throwway120385 wrote:
| How can we do microservices with this notebook? My team uses
| microservices and I want to make sure we have a fully edge-
| enabled solution.
| hnshitpostt wrote:
| it depends. do you need zero trust with your edge?
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