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Do you always disclose customer information?
by IncRnd 10y ago
Do you always disclose customer information?
- strictnein 10y agoThere was an article written about him, which he obviously had to approve. How is disclosing what product he used "customer information"?
- lightbyte 10y agoNot the mention the article already says the machine he started with was these n1-highcpu-32s, so it's a pretty safe bet that he continued using it for this.
- IanCal 10y agoFor those that don't know google's list of instance types, this is the largest high-cpu instance that's not in beta.
- boulos 10y agoI should clarify: one of the reasons Drew stuck with those instead of larger (I had recommended customs with 48s at one point) is so that he can use the same config in all regions. We have some older zones still with Ivy Bridges and such that won't do >32. I fully expect that Drew will add a simple override map to say "use 64 threads here, 48 here, 32 here and so on" but with a goal to minimize preemptions.
- IanCal 10y agoNone of that information is private. The number of cores is in the article, the type of machine he used to use is in the article and the hourly cost of those machines is public knowledge. At worst the revelation here is that someone at google thinks the customer might be using what they've publicly said they used before. And that instance type is the largest high-cpu version available that's not in beta.
- sctb 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159177 and marked it off-topic.