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by giulianob 14y ago
I have only read briefly about it but there's also the new Metal as a Service (MaaS) with the latest Ubuntu. From what I understand, it gives you those APIs to manage bare metal for those cases where virtualization doesn't make sense.
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by giulianob 14y ago
Cloud providers are trying to abstract it all away while in reality the real world factors cant be abstracted. E.g. latency if servers aren't close enough, I/O performance due to virtualization, disk latency if you are using block storage,
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by giulianob 14y ago
How does this differ from something like Apache Thrift?
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by giulianob 14y ago
EC2 can be cost effective if your traffic throughout the day spikes A LOT. As for the experimenting part, you could build yourself your own VM cluster. There are a lot of prepackaged solutions such as oVirt which come with the full administ
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by giulianob 15y ago
Languages I feel comfortable in: -C# -Java -PHP -ActionScript 3 -Javascript -C/C++ (not so much now but did in the past) -Objective C and I've played around with Ruby and Python a little. Knowing all these languages, I still think PHP can b
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by giulianob 15y ago
You make good points.
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by giulianob 15y ago
Bandwidth limits are fine. The problem is when they calculate bandwidth prices based on what you are using it for. It would be like the phone company saying "Want to talk to your family members? Well that costs 10c per minute but talking to
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by giulianob 15y ago
It'll be nice when the tech doesn't matter but if someone can't play your game because they prefer a different browser then that kind of sucks.
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by giulianob 15y ago
Maybe SET wasnt a good example .. but lets say you are writing to the wrong type or something like that. I know that its unlikely something will fail in production like that since you should catch it during dev but bugs can happen.
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by giulianob 15y ago
I had read that MULTI/EXEC would not "rollback" incase a command fails (e.g. you do first SET, second SET, third SET fails, then the two initial SETs would still be applied). I guess this doesn't so much have to do specifically with persist
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by giulianob 15y ago
Are there any good posts on transactions? I've found articles around but nothing very concise that explains the exact behavior of MULTI/EXEC when things go bad.