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by halbritt 8y ago
No disagreement here. The balance here is tricky. Based on public data, it seems that Netflix has ~$16B in revenue against $300m/yr cloud spend. 2% seems much more reasonable to me. I feel like a drive toward efficiency is a worthwhi
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by halbritt 8y ago
No worries. Generally speaking, you're right.
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My argument is that spending 10% of their revenue on cloud infra affects their unit economics sufficiently that they'll find it difficult to compete. Perfectly willing to admit I'm wrong if and when that time comes. At this point
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Outside of S3 I can't think of any services that AWS offers that are worth a damn.
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IBM cloud is a joke. That's why I put it in there. The aforementioned executive was clearly not thinking. There's nothing you've written that I disagree with. It's easy to do the math that shows where bare metal saves
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Agreed. Though the question I received was somewhat nonsensical, which was to be expected.
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Glassdoor is still useful in the sense that you can filter down to the worse reviews. Ignore those that are obviously sour grapes, and get a sense of how bad things are. I see a lot of things like: Positive Reviewer - "Hypergrowth co
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by halbritt 8y ago
As for the OpEx vs. CapEx argument, that's a non-starter. If you have $100m OpEx per annum, it'll cost you maybe a point or two to convert that to $300m CapEx.
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by halbritt 8y ago
my username at gmail dot com
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The thing is, it's not really hard. Quantum computing is hard. Managing IT infrastructure as a value-added component of the business that evolves continuously vs. a cost-center to be bought and forgot is actually not that hard. The
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If you've built a heterogenous environment at the end of three years, then you've failed. The reason that AWS, Google, Azure, et.al do so well is that they don't just buy some servers. They do actual capacity maangement, and
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by halbritt 8y ago
So, convince me? - person who knows how hard it is to run your own infrastructure.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Having done a bunch of bare metal, I can tell you the calculus isn't really that hard. Bare metal will save you money. Operating bare metal at scale requires talent that doesn't exist, not necessarily at an engineering level, but
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by halbritt 8y ago
The Confluent Community License?
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There's very much in the 14 principles about optimizing for results and very little about leading or cultivating people. Obviously, this can be interpreted in very many ways, but the impression I get from the people that work there or
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This conversation seems to take place toward the end of every "wave of innovation" I've seen in the bay area and I'm sure it took place long before I got here in '97. There's nothing to suggest to me that thin
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by halbritt 8y ago
The leadership principles in and of themselves strike me as something that is likely to lead to a toxic culture. For reference: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
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I mentioned further up thread, there's a book about this topic written by an HR person called "Corporate Confidential" which basically reinforces all this. It's a fascinating read.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Pro-tip: never expect your work environment to change. The chances of a report overcoming the whims of a shitty manager are very, very small especially in the context of a company that tolerates the shitty manager in the first place. Gener
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by halbritt 8y ago
There's been much discussion in this thread about the role of HR and corporate processes in these kinds of situations. I would encourage anyone that works in a BigCo to read the book "Corporate Confidential". https:/&#
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So much, this.
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I was struggling with that last but as well. Sure, in some cases the people before did a bad job, but in my experience that occurs way less often than engineers simply developing for the requirements that they understand, which evolve over
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by halbritt 8y ago
This doesn't really make sense. GNSS is simply a reference to a receiver's ability to access any navigation constellation, that is, GPS, plus GLONASS, Beidou, and Galileo, operated by Russia, China, and the EU respectively. Just
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by halbritt 8y ago
Immutability is pretty cool. Also the sibling to that where you're running the same immutable artifact in all of your environments. Any kind of isolation is just icing on the cake.
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by halbritt 8y ago
...and it looks like Jabra acquired them a while back. Nice.
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by halbritt 8y ago
I think this is just a simple case of Bluetooth being terrible on PCs and hard to develop for. FWIW, I've been using a BlueParrott B350-XT for years. It's worked on MacOS, Ubuntu, and IOS, although multi-pairing gets kind of weir
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Likewise, mine work pretty well.
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Oh, the egg thing! I've done that. It's great for that. Definitely brought mine to work to crisp up an entire porchetta. I want to try it on steak that's been reverse-seared, I wager that starting with a dry surface will
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I have one. It's just okay. It's great for finishing things melting cheese on dishes, etc., but it's a little under-powered for searing a steak nicely, especially if there's any moisture present. It's fine for on
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by halbritt 8y ago
Lessee... 14400 vCPU of R4 for 3yr reserved, monthly is $300k MRC. I'm guessing you'd run ceph or rook on your bare metal and have ~8 1TB SSD per server, so 75 servers * 8 SSDs /3 (for replication) is 200TB with decent perfo

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