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This is great, your suggestion to replace s3 and ddb is to run some VMs? I don’t blame people for being skeptical
by tt24 5mo ago
This is great, your suggestion to replace s3 and ddb is to run some VMs?
I don’t blame people for being skeptical
- ApolloFortyNine 5mo agoYea, op just handwaved away all scalability. Guessing their response would be 'launch more vms'.
- actionfromafar 5mo agoScalability is great, when you need it. Most companies don’t need it.
- hermanzegerman 5mo agoWhy does the Dutch Central Bank need scalability?
- izacus 5mo agoVMs scale just fine.
- filleduchaos 5mo agoProjects like Ceph and Minio have existed for years, though? Beyond that, I just don't understand your point of view at all. Do people unironically think there is some super special dark magic being done in the bowels of Amazon, as opposed to just...code that runs on (virtual and physical) machines? The open source community yielded Linux but it's just sooo impossible for it to yield an object storage service? What a strangely shackled view of the world.
- lelanthran 5mo ago> This is great, your suggestion to replace s3 and ddb is to run some VMs? Well... yes? What do you think the AWS S3 and DDB is running on? Fairy dust?
- tt24 5mo agoNo it’s using an army of extremely well paid engineers, something I guarantee the parent comment has no access to
- lelanthran 5mo ago> No it’s using an army of extremely well paid engineers, something I guarantee the parent comment has no access to That's a different argument to the one I replied to, and the reply to "they have expensive infra people" is "you have to have expensive product-trained people to use them anyway".
- tt24 5mo agoIt’s not really a different argument The suggestion was to replace DBB and S3 with some VMs. Presumably those VMs would be managed by the engineers part of the parent commenter’s organization. They do not have access to as many engineers as AWS, nor do they pay them as well. Not arguing about cost effectiveness here. Just pointing out how silly it is to suggest that you can replace DDB/S3 with some VMs ran by a midsize organization
- izacus 5mo agoIt's probably 5 juniors fighting fires in reality and not giving a crap for your service. :P
- rcbdev 5mo agoThis is great, your suggestion to replace our sovereignly hosted VMs is to run containers in the U.S.A.? I don't blame people for being skeptical
- tt24 5mo agoWhen sovergienty comes at the expense of availability the latter will usually win over the former.