SpaceMartini

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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
This hit me when moving from a start-up to a FAANG. There is effectively an infinite amount of work for me to do on any given day, so at some point I just have to decide to stop - if I don't, I'll just end up tired tomorrow with a
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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
Solving storage at the tens of TB scale with commodity hardware is fine to a point (I have a ZFS NAS at home) but has much more ongoing maintenance burden than S3 and you need at least 2 copies for it to be a remotely comparable solution in
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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
> Are you saying we should stick with AWS because most stick with AWS? Broadly speaking yes - there is a lot of value in having a deeper pool of skilled people to hire from, and there are enough differences between cloud offerings to kno
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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
I have heard too many horror stories about Ceph (and OpenStack) to be confident about that. I certainly don't think I can truly beat S3 on cost or performance at the terabyte scale for household data - and while larger scale would give
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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
Those are fair points - I have seen truly spiky workloads like that very occasionally, but more often those spikes are a precursor to more sustained usage in a similar manner and so would quickly warrant hardware purchases.
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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
As an addendum to this: if you absolutely must use cloud, stick with AWS. Using Azure is (IMO) a fucking miserable experience and their only advantage (InfiniBand) is better served by buying your own hardware. GCP and OCI might be fine if y
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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
I work in HPC for a cloud provider, and fully endorse this move. Anonymously, of course. You can make an economic argument for or against cloud in practically every IT domain, but in HPC the case for on-prem is really compelling; none of th
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by SpaceMartini 4y ago
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