derekdb

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by derekdb 1y ago
gVisor has basically re-implemented most of syscall api, but only when the host is also Linux.
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by derekdb 3y ago
I've see this happen to a number of friends. Most of them have enough saving that they can 'retire', but none of them wanted to retire yet. It often means moving away from friends to implement a lower cost-of-living. Once
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by derekdb 3y ago
As a customer of serverless, you do not have to manage any servers, that is provided by the platform. Even with a platform like EKS, the customer is still responsible for selecting instance type, OS/AMI and any OS updates. With serve
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by derekdb 5y ago
Having worked on both AWS and GCP, my experience was that AWS had a much better organizational grasp on how to price services. They track the predicted revenue/costs compared to the observed, and expect each team to have roadmap proje
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by derekdb 5y ago
aws cli cp can copy between buckets.
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by derekdb 5y ago
S3 explicitly changed their license to allow copying the S3 API. I forget the year, ~2010? I was working an S3 at the time and it was a strongly debated decision. Google’s initial launch of their cloud storage copied not just the S3 API, bu
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by derekdb 7y ago
We should be
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by derekdb 11y ago
Some of the cultural issues around avoiding virtual came from hard lessons with v1.0. After shipping v1 they realized that there were a large set of security and compatibility issues with not having framework classes sealed. No-one I worked
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by derekdb 12y ago
Last I checked, Eucalyptus is missing an number of the APIs that customers really use once they are doing more than just hosting a few VMs. Access control, security, VPN... The service providers are actually quite different and any attempt
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by derekdb 15y ago
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