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Yes, the human time is an investment that pays back multiple times over. Why the core of a technology business would be in the hands of a 3rd party dismays me.
by bsenftner 5y ago
Yes, the human time is an investment that pays back multiple times over. Why the core of a technology business would be in the hands of a 3rd party dismays me.
Of course, those 17 servers composed dev, staging, and live, plus fallbacks, ultimately composing quite a few APIs and related services. They were all used for high compute, where a task would floor 32 cores for 3.5 seconds, and that was essentially what the cluster was for, beyond the accounting and tracking of its use.
- rswail 5y ago> core of a technology business Most businesses are not technology businesses, they deliver goods or services to their customers where IT is part of their costs to deliver. Investing in IT people to run that bare metal is a huge expense that doesn't improve your goods or services directly. As for "where a task would floor 32 cores for 3.5 seconds"... means that your internal IT infra had to support that maximum requirement headroom 100% of the time, even though it may not be used for 99% of the time (depending on load patterns etc).