hodgesrm

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   by hodgesrm 11y ago

   You are right about simplification and I considered that point. Yet the fact that each application is developed on a general purpose platform, then compiled down to a unique production OS image seems to open up a lot of new corner cases inv
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   by hodgesrm 11y ago

   I like the idea of the small attack service and minimal image size. However, having a different kernel image for each service seems likely to trigger some extremely hard-to-diagnose bugs, which have to include performance problems. As leas
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   by hodgesrm 11y ago

   It's a bit hard to argue that infrastructure software is dominated by open source. The stack behind Amazon Web Services is almost 100% closed. It's not just closed source--Amazon rarely even comments about how services like S3, EB
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   by hodgesrm 11y ago

   That's not how it works at least in my experience. Real VCs are investing not just money but time . That's why they dump bad investments so quickly--bad ones take away time from the investments that might work out. Also, VCs ar