jacques_chester

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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   Good benchmarking requires a lot of work. What you did is actually useful within the narrow context you're applying it to -- quickly validating design changes. But if, for example, you wanted to send it into SIGMETRICS for publication,
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   I principally was thinking of order, yes. When we application developers hear "queue" we typically assume it's going to have a FIFO discipline.
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   > Btw, we both work at Pivotal :-) I'm at Labs in NYC on secondment to Cloud Foundry. You should come see us and do a tech talk! > "Is queueing partially/totally consistent across a group of servers or divided up for
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   Great reply. I wasn't expecting to make you fill out a survey. I was just trying to show off scars I and others I know have accumulated over the years :)
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   RabbitMQ is originally an installable package that can support a wide range of behaviours -- you still need to be mindful of which you choose. Depending on your settings, you can see orders of magnitude changes in throughput. Disclaimer: Ra
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   There's some typoes and broken links. I like the code, though, lots of work has been done. It's worth bearing in mind that messages per second is important, but it's easy to get fixated on benchmark porn. Different queueing s
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   Thanks.
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   Granted, but I was replying to chuhnk's comment, which mentioned both OpenShift and Atomic.
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   by jacques_chester 12y ago

   Thanks for the correction, I was wrong. I do note that Warden uses a lot of the same primitives (as do several projects building on the facilities that arose or were repurposed for Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, LXC etc etc).
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    I think I got swarm and machine mixed up. Swarm seems to be tied to the CLI, because the command is "docker run", with additional settings. I think I am skimming too skimmily. Pluggable scheduling and placement is a good move. It
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    The next generation of OpenShift is largely hypothetical at the moment. Cloud Foundry already has a container-based PaaS and it's only getting better. And it's not tied to a single vendor. Disclaimer: I'm biased as hell, I wo
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    > Swarm and Machine are separate binaries. They appear to enjoy first-class support in the docker CLI. Is that right?
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    > And thus the need for Rocket. Actually, I'm going to say: thus the need for Cloud Foundry. I work for Pivotal Labs and I'm secondment to the CF Buildpacks team, so I'm biased. And this shouldn't be construed as o
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    Have you ever considered doing a Warden backend for SmartOS? It'd make Cloud Foundry run out of the box, as I understand it. Disclaimer: while I work on CF, I'm not that close to the Warden nitty-gritty.
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    Your edit is incomplete. Warden predates Docker and is an independent container system. Diego is a new controller/staging/allocating/health system for part of Cloud Foundry, which is a complete PaaS, of which Warden is a low-
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    > It would also suggest that the level above that is abstracting datacenter's away to just manage a single global system made up of multiple DC's. I work on Cloud Foundry. We already have this tool, at least for the IaaS laye
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    The interesting fight is actually the next level up from OpenStack (or AWS, or vSphere). It's in the PaaS space: Cloud Foundry and OpenShift are sprinting to be the full-service cloud an enterprise can run in a private datacentre. I ha
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    I call Google's strategy the Spaghetti Cannon: fire spaghetti at the world and see what sticks. Microsoft have done slightly better at it. But in terms of ROI, they might've done better by just parking it in index funds.
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    Except that there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of niche advertising platforms, markets, middlemen, services, systems, technologies, clearinghouses, inventories, sellers, buyers, brokers, verifiers, subverters ... The advertising ecosystem
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    People are also giving Thiel credit for this insight. Michael Porter was probably the first to look over the fence of the Economics department, find out what the abusive behaviours of monopolists are, and to begin to teach them as strategy
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    A good book, definitely. I reviewed it here: http://chester.id.au/2013/07/07/review-to-engineer-is-human-...
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    That's the thing, though. Hoping something will come along is a terrible business model. Google actively sucks at every business except floating down the Mississippi of cash. Amazing technology and technologists, terrible business. The
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    I remember the pre-Google search days too. > Pagerank made the difference. To search . But they don't make money directly from search. They were a superior technology that was doomed to go broke until AdSense and AdWords came alo
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    > why is Google's search engine a monopoly? It's not a monopoly. However, it has a massive network effect that has made it so far impossible for anyone to make a successful frontal assault on the two core businesses of AdWord
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    A book I read, Industrial Megaprojects , suggests that everyone else makes a lot of the same dumb mistakes we do. We're not comparing ourselves to civil, structural, process, mining, aeronautical or industrial engineering. We're
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    Computer science isn't a science and it's not about actual computers. Software engineering isn't engineering and is really about the limits of people, not software in and of itself. Nevertheless, my job title is "Softwar
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    > In the US we screw around (talking, surfing the web, etc) much more. DeMarco & Lister referred to this, I believe it was in Peopleware , as "undertime".
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    In Australia there's a fixed amount below which donations may be anonymous. It means that if you want to donate more and can face the scrutiny, you can. If you don't want the scrutiny, you can still donate without being seen to.
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    > If there was really a tech shortage -- and had been for years -- wouldn't the labor supply rise to meet demand? Much of the demand for skilled labour is in the USA, much of the supply of it is not in the USA.
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    by jacques_chester 12y ago

    When I explain EFT and EFTPOS to Americans, they're often surprised that we Australians had it for decades. The USA flew men to the moon, built the bomb and invented the internet. Their principal form of funds transfer is still with pi