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Golden Image or Foil Ball? (VM maintenance issues)

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• blasdel 17y ago
  The essential basis of running services in “the cloud” is that they run in virtual machines The fuck it isn't -- “the cloud” is so much more than the x86 provisioning frippery of EC2 et. al. They provide no logical abstraction, only a physical one. Hadoop, S3, Google App Engine, Heroku, and other real platforms let you completely avoid dealing with machine-level bullshit.
  • moe 17y ago
    Hadoop, S3, Google App Engine, Heroku, and other real platforms let you completely avoid dealing with machine-level bullshit. The problem is that their constraints rule them out for a wide variety of use-cases, I'd go as far as to say: most use-cases. When building anything serious (and no, the next twitter-bot doesn't qualify) you quickly realize that you'll have to deal with at least some of the machine-level bullshit - because otherwise you'd be either paying through your nose, or simply not be able to implement what you need.
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