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by dmourati 11y ago
Brandishing a firearm is a crime.
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by dmourati 11y ago
I'm pro-baking AMIs. I do it every day and have automated and wrapped it up with Jenkins/Packer etc. I don't get your point though. Something, ansible, puppet, something has to put all the config in place. I've done the
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by dmourati 11y ago
If someone will rewrite this article as Ansible vs. Puppet I will not only buy you a beer but I will throw a parade in your honor.
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by dmourati 11y ago
I really liked your point and the Wikipedia link. Group harmony is the essence of the piece. Wa succinctly captures the point.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Does Google Cloud offer an equivalent to AWS Direct Connect?
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by dmourati 11y ago
Are you sure about that? Did you factor in power?
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by dmourati 11y ago
Thank you.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Same, but I chose $1.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Ooh, that's insidious and has the ring of truth to it. I've never thought about that before.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Systems Thinking, Third Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
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by dmourati 11y ago
I bristle at the sentiment of "things that are bigger than me." Perhaps my aversion to this notion stems from the fact that I've worked (mostly) in small companies. Folks at my now bigger company say things like: "above
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by dmourati 11y ago
I spent the first 15 years of my career as follows: 3 years in small companies outside the bay area 10 years in bay area startups ~2 years in bay area big corporations I can say the following. The transition from startup to big company was
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by dmourati 11y ago
A consultant from Ubuntu called Ironic a "still birth" and said its name was indicative of its fit with the rest of OpenStack. His team used MaaS which I gather serves most of the same purpose: https://maas.ubuntu.com&#
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by dmourati 11y ago
http://www.unclaw.com/chin/teaching/antitrust/herfindahl.htm disclaimer: recovering attorney who studied this in law school long ago. no longer practicing.
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by dmourati 11y ago
"Nothing AWS offers—no matter how much it might look that way—is an end-user platform" I don't agree here. I'm definitely in the sysadmin camp but I'd like to think I've advanced from where I was when that was
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by dmourati 11y ago
"And what if nobody had stepped up?" One option would be to pitch it again in a different method and at a later time. Iterate on approach and message. If it truly is an important project and if prospective volunteers had the time
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by dmourati 11y ago
Strong opinion, weakly held. If you have any evidence to counter AWS cloud dominance please do share. Sources: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/05/28/gartn... , http://www.zacks
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by dmourati 11y ago
My understanding is that a portion is on OpenStack, a portion is on legacy bare-metal, and a portion is in the Public Cloud (Rackspace and presumably some Joyent per this thread). Source: I work with a bunch of ex-WM employees and have inte
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by dmourati 11y ago
Thanks for the correction. I should have gotten that right. I don't think the talk mentioned Illumos at all. EDIT: he did mention Illumos but he was talking really fast.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Joyent chose BSD which does containers better than Linux and Cantrill is pissed that everyone chose Linux+VMs.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Ya, running a public cloud and competing against Amazon, I can see why he has so much angst about VMs. The reality is, the market wants what Amazon is selling and no amount of blasting VMs is going to undo that. https://www.joyen
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by dmourati 11y ago
The penguin line made me lol.
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by dmourati 11y ago
We used these and affectionately called them the mullet as in business in the front, party in the rear. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/847/sc847de26-...
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by dmourati 11y ago
Read a little more into the second part of your sentence, especially the word "maintain."
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by dmourati 11y ago
Yes, sorry if that wasn't clear.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Obligatory response from Graphite contributor and author Jason Dixon who is shouted out in the vividcortex intro. http://obfuscurity.com/2015/11/Everybody-Loves-Graphite Personal response: I've used Graphite,
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by dmourati 11y ago
I think this $50k number is way low unless you are talking bargain basement data center. Also, doesn't contemplate needed bandwidth. I agree with the expertise point, though. Rough numbers: Server = $5k, straight line depreciation over
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by dmourati 11y ago
Put money in on Monday so pretty pleased with this. I was hoping for $600. After market today trading $620-630.
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by dmourati 11y ago
Consider yourself lucky in the long run.
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by dmourati 11y ago
NetApp is faltering by all accounts and their market cap is <$10B.

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