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by kev009 8y ago
I think it has mostly lowered the barrier to entry for Linux users already interested in ZFS, which is a good thing for user experience, but I haven't seen Canonical driving any feature dev and they aren't doing extensive backport
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by kev009 8y ago
The nail in the coffin was Delphix switching away from Illumos for similar reasons the author cites in another article. As they drive most of the complex feature development directly with staff developers, and by virtue of having Matt Ahre
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by kev009 8y ago
That is fairly accurate.. the story of The Bell System is pretty interesting if not totally bizarre. Things are a bit more capitalist these days since most transport is IP and the commercial IT sector drives most development there, but cel
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by kev009 8y ago
It's funny seeing people from niche things you used to be into pop up in other places. When I was in my teens I did a lot of Ultima Online emulator stuff and have seen many of the server devs at places like Google in my career. I rem
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by kev009 8y ago
Most GPON (fiber to the home) in the US uses ATM cells too
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by kev009 8y ago
It’s somewhat generous to call either of these the same companies as their wireline namesakes
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by kev009 8y ago
AMD laid off a lot of their Linux devs in 2012, and it still hasn't recovered [1] [1] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/11/07/1634237/amd-closes...
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by kev009 8y ago
http://www2.rdrop.com/~paulmck/RCU/Validation.2018.03.15a.DA... Your lens is probably too small, Paul does a great job quantifying bug probability to more human terms in the above presentation. I ran all OS dev an
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by kev009 8y ago
People like you are what make these kinds of infrastructure plays such an easy turkey shoot. Look up the market cap and P/E of something like Akamai. I could build out the server footprint for that in 12 months (look up my linkedin)..
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by kev009 8y ago
Most people on this site don't in the same way they don't buy servers and prop up huge margins for AWS. The funny thing is it's not hard, I have my own personal autonomous system, IPs, and routing. You buy transit at any &qu
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by kev009 8y ago
Never said there's anything wrong with it, it just changes the capital expenditure and worth from physical to virtual (peering agreements). Companies like Century Link, AT&T, Verizon are in a slightly different category with abund
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by kev009 8y ago
It doesn't have the flash in the pan moment of sucesss like a unicorn startup but these guys will make billions some day due to all the peering agreements and interconnect (most the long haul is probably leased), especially as IPv6 tak
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by kev009 8y ago
Large institutions had these capabilities since the 1960s. There were parallel universes like Tymnet and companies would set up first party networks using vendor protocols like IBM's SNA (which had a few precursors like QTAM). Users
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by kev009 8y ago
When reading this I think of my deep knowledge of TCP (especially the pain points) and yet it is "The Internet" for the past while. Compared to simpler protocols like Delta-T and later/better protocols like XTP, TCP still &q
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by kev009 8y ago
I guess it depends on the industry but it is somewhat common for electronic components. There are a lot of failure modes in parts, picking, soldering, and assembly. The economics widely favor doing testing at manufacturing time (versus so
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by kev009 8y ago
Shrug, if you are just a bystander it does make sense to go wherever the spectacle is. There is a competent team working on TCP at Netflix, led by Randall Stewart. They collaborate regularly with VJ and his Google team and the IETF tsvwg.
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by kev009 8y ago
I feel like there is some happy medium. For instance, biasing toward declarative documents as much as possible (HTML and CSS DOM) and perhaps fetching and compiling/linking only needed JS functions with intelligent asset pipelines. I
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by kev009 8y ago
If you need it and have the ability to maintain your own tree shoot me a note and I will put you in contact with the right folks. Not ready for unrestricted use but it is usable and in wide use. The RACK stack is in 12.0 and provides many
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by kev009 8y ago
Yawn, the amount of publicity ARM gets for free for the past decade to enter the data center is perplexing. The economy of these designs are not good versus the competition full stop. There are three chips that work well in the data center
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by kev009 8y ago
It's really not hyperbole I can confirm after being one of the main contacts at a cloud service provider. Marketing can push engineering and allocate budgets. Everything is driven by "Plan Of Record" agreed with marketing.
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by kev009 8y ago
Yeah I dunno this doesn't seem unusual to me, for instance here is RIOS aka POWER1 from 1989 http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohlandl/RS6000/RS6000_RISC_Chipset.ht... . It's possible to get 4 instructions per cloc
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by kev009 8y ago
I'm not advocating their use and the default should be right and smallest fit for the job, which means sqlite or Postgres nearly always. But too often people get in this mindset that old commercial products are meritless or whatever.
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by kev009 8y ago
I'm a big fan of Postgres and it is basically the only DB I use but the title is naive and the post is low content. SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 are crown jewels products and each have substantial and difficult to implement niche or ex
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by kev009 8y ago
Again it's not a judgement against the technology. What I'm getting at is the talking that fad technologies won the industry is false and too early to call like that; in the particular company you are working in docker and kube y
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by kev009 8y ago
Very much so, and nearly one decade separated between the three in their respective fad cycles. Being a fad isn't a judgement against the technology, some will fail and some will prevail.
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by kev009 8y ago
http://ps-2.kev009.com/rs6000/aix_ps_pdf/programming/using_s...
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by kev009 8y ago
Fair enough, and the parent topic about /switching/ between broadly similar technology like operating systems is where departments usually go awry. My axe to grind is about initial selection when starting from scratch (do you rea
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by kev009 8y ago
It's the wrong question unless you are in the business of profiting off of container tech directly. What are you doing for the stakeholders delegating your pay checks and the person authorized to fire you? If they are happy, then it
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by kev009 8y ago
It really didn't. I can tell you with first hand knowledge the majority of the internet by any measure, but especially high scale systems where I've worked and know much of the small community, use neither Docker nor Kubernetes.
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by kev009 8y ago
We have FreeBSD running with radeon driver and will have a ~linux4.20 amdgpu driver up by the time blackbird ships. Most the performance work is usable, our goal is to have a usable daily driver around Q1 https://github.com&#x2F

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