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Running a datacenter is still a hard problem to solve. Evernote just realised that.
by StreamBright 10y ago
Running a datacenter is still a hard problem to solve. Evernote just realised that.
- cel1ne 10y agoInfrastructure is always messy: http://www.dourish.com/publications/2007/BellDourish-YesterdaysTomorrows-PUC.pdf http://www.dourish.com/publications/2007/BellDourish-Yesterd...
- gtsteve 10y agoI'm sure they've known that for a while but the company is about as old as the big public cloud providers and at that time I was certainly nervous about using them. If they started today I imagine they wouldn't have dreamed of having their own datacenters.
- patrickg_zill 10y agoRunning a datacenter is a solved problem. Period. What I get from this is that they want to use Google's available horsepower in machine learning and maybe, trying to build their own TensorFlow equivalent would have cost them extra and have added risk of becoming rapidly out of date, since Google is investing heavily in it.