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What are those two ops-focused folks doing with the other 95% of their time? Are we talking about two developers who are willing to spend 5-10% time on non-pro

by sk5t 6y ago

What are those two ops-focused folks doing with the other 95% of their time? Are we talking about two developers who are willing to spend 5-10% time on non-promotable server chores--while yet being on the hook in the event of a hardware disaster--or people who consider operations their vocation and aren't interested in software development? I agree that it's possible to do that kind of work on a 5-10% basis, but it requires just the right set of circumstances for sustainability. Like, maybe it is your own startup or family business, or one is not particular good at sysop'ing and wants to learn more.

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scarface74 6y ago
When I first started working at my current company, my manager wanted a highly available SFTP solution that would automatically sync with S3. I designed a relatively straightforward solution on paper involving a network load balancer, autoscaling group [1] with two instances and a SMB share (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/CreatingAnSMBFileShare.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/...) and gave him an estimated cost. He said okay go for it. But then I said, or we can just throw some money at AWS and use the more expensive (on paper excluding babysitting time), AWS SFTP service. I gave him both solutions as a test to see where his head was at. He chose AWS SFTP. We are a small high margin B2B company and sign long term contracts that are worth yearly in the six figures. We are very much focused on outsourcing the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” so we can focus on development and sales. [1] Autoscaling would not have been used to scale on demand. We set a min/max of two so if one server fails a health check, another instance will be brought up.

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What are those two ops-focused folks doing with the other 95% of their time? Are we talking about two developers who are willing to spend 5-10% time on non-pro

by sk5t 6y ago

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scarface74 6y ago
When I first started working at my current company, my manager wanted a highly available SFTP solution that would automatically sync with S3. I designed a relatively straightforward solution on paper involving a network load balancer, autoscaling group [1] with two instances and a SMB share (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/CreatingAnSMBFileShare.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/...) and gave him an estimated cost. He said okay go for it. But then I said, or we can just throw some money at AWS and use the more expensive (on paper excluding babysitting time), AWS SFTP service. I gave him both solutions as a test to see where his head was at. He chose AWS SFTP. We are a small high margin B2B company and sign long term contracts that are worth yearly in the six figures. We are very much focused on outsourcing the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” so we can focus on development and sales. [1] Autoscaling would not have been used to scale on demand. We set a min/max of two so if one server fails a health check, another instance will be brought up.