mikecb

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by mikecb 10y ago
This is just the next iteration of hangouts, which was already pivoting to enterprise, re-branded. Kinda necessary, since hangouts doesn't really suggest business use.
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by mikecb 10y ago
or was it? dun dun
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by mikecb 10y ago
The best jokes always have a grain of truth.
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by mikecb 10y ago
Great comment, thanks for the clarification. Wasn't trying to say that 20% is a magic number, just that it cemented the idea for me that engineering time, and self-directed engineering time, is incredibly valuable for everyone that can
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by mikecb 10y ago
I can't say it better than they did: https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/automation-at-g...
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by mikecb 10y ago
Thanks, my bad. Would you say the stackdriver incidents tool was influenced by SRE experiences?
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by mikecb 10y ago
The coolest thing I took away from the SRE book was this progression of system operations from manual, to scriptable, to automated, to a fourth category I hadn't even known existed: autonomous. The idea that you can keep moving up this
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by mikecb 10y ago
Have you tried Appengine flexible environment?
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by mikecb 10y ago
Well, since mysql compatible Cloud SQL is, I would imagine pg would be too.
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by mikecb 10y ago
There's been a lot of talk in the compliance gcp slack on this, seems like a lot of products are being audited and announcements will be made at Next.
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by mikecb 10y ago
Kubernetes manages containers, but what manages Kubernetes? GKE just makes the experience very painless, updates, etc.
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by mikecb 10y ago
Killer network.
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by mikecb 10y ago
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevvO7... :)
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by mikecb 10y ago
I think it's funny that big Xeon upgrades seem to always occur approximately 8 months after big Power architecture blog posts.
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by mikecb 10y ago
There's more than a year of notice, and there's still a solution that provides substantially the same service. Long term can't mean forever, especially for services that can't support themselves.
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by mikecb 10y ago
I think most interestingly, in order to create a competitive search engine, you would need not only a nationwide, but indeed a globe-spanning optical network.
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by mikecb 10y ago
The spanner announcement mentioned offering direct access to the TrueTime api sometime in the not too distant future. Edit: Quote from Brewer's post: "Next steps For a significantly deeper dive into the details, see the white pape
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by mikecb 10y ago
If you are an active target of a tier 1 state, your endpoint will be compromised, your decrypted communication will be read, and no cryptosystem will prevent this.
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by mikecb 10y ago
So pay for G-Suite, the support is excellent. Non-profits can get it for free.
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by mikecb 10y ago
GPU just speeds up training, it isn't required.
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by mikecb 10y ago
No. Google has a hosted version of tensorflow, called CloudML, but tensorflow is an open source project that can be run anywhere.
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by mikecb 10y ago
At one time, snap was heavily appengine, which is of course a higher priced offering than bare instances.
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by mikecb 10y ago
AFAIK the recent key transparency initiative is also the missing link in bringing the end-to-end to Gmail for real.
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by mikecb 10y ago
It would be extraordinary case law indeed that could override that specific enumeration of the class subject to the statue. If you're interested in this subject, you might be interested in the canons of statutory interpretation, in par
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by mikecb 10y ago
I think the amp partner term is silly. If akamai wanted to, they could host their own cache. There is no evidence that Google is doing anything but encouraging cdns to do so.
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by mikecb 10y ago
If you don't need cell level access control, you probably wouldn't be looking for it. I guess hbase now offers this too.
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by mikecb 10y ago
Really? Sqrrl and Cloudera offer support.
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by mikecb 10y ago
You may take from the story what you wish, but afaik, the collaboration you're referring to was informal engineering discussion, not required permission. I can't charitably get to your interpretation from the blog posts or public
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by mikecb 10y ago
Fair point, I was going for magnitude.
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by mikecb 10y ago
Just as a little additional perspective, the recipient agencies may still only query the raw data for foreign intelligence purposes, so it doesn't increase that power, just spreads it further. Additionally, there was a great interview

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