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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Azure is still catching up in many areas. For example low-priority VMs is a recent addition to Azure, whereas AWS has had these instances since 2009. I also find the Azure interface really clunky compared to AWS and I am definitely not a fa
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
I think this article is comparing apple and pears to some extend. My company is solely cloud based and are using Azure, AWS and GCP, although 98% of our bespoke infrastructure runs on AWS. We could migrate this infrastructure to GCP, as Goo
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Git can easily be replaced in my company if there was business need for it. For now it does do its job, but there is no reason we wouldn't migrate if there was a better alternative. Right now there isn't one.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Performance reviews are a waste of time, there has been plenty of research that shows they add little value to a company. Unfortunately is an easy process for HR to justify their existence and makes putting people on performance management
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
If you need things to be really safe, you should enable 2FA. Those $1700 of computational costs are likely to be run on hacked infrastructure, so definitely doable.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
This is not unique to Norway. In the Netherlands I was basically raised on a "Norwegian" sandwich lunch, although peanut butter could be used as a topping as well.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
How much would you have to pay a sysadmin to install, maintain and monitor an in house hosted server ? How much would you have to pay to have daily snapshots of your instance ? And what do you do with the old server if there is a change in
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
> Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and d
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Legacy ASP.NET web pages might be harder to migrate, however, newer web sites can also be implemented using ASP.NET Core MVC. It seems other departments in Microsoft do understand that their code base needs to be able to run on a Linux OS,
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
The real question is why companies are still running Windows Servers in the cloud. It is already 50% more expensive to run Windows Server on AWS compared to a Linux based OS, so I can really only justify running Windows Server for legacy ap
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Disappointing and reassuring at the same time. I didn't want to click the link on the corporate network.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
I didn't dare to click any of the links returned by this query: "top secret" filetype:pdf The Google summary for my first hit starts with this: The attached material contains TOP SECRET information which bears directly upon t
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
This is resulting in build failures in our AWS CodePipeline as we can't pull some Docker images from Dockerhub
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
On Azure, a Windows VM instance tends to cost about 50% more than the equivalent instance running Linux,so it is a no brainer to use Linux if your application is operation system independent.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Has the CTO and key technical staff retired after the Slack IPO ? :-) In the UK there is no real outage, although Slack struggles sending some messages and this can result in some messages appearing twice. This problem seems to be worse whe
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Can you also mute certain colleagues ?
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Slack will never replace email as long as it doesn't have end to end encryption, a feature Slack has indicated it is not going to deliver anytime soon due to the "priorities of paying customers". Personally I hate Slack as i
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Try running Visual Studio without admin rights and you will weep. Regarding other rights, I tried to onboard a new Dev without admin rights, however, after the 25th IT ticket (that take days to get done), I gave up.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Salesforce data is stored in Oracle DBs
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
My company is using Einstein Analytics, however, other than the Salesforce integration has been a terrible disappointing experience. Loading data is a pain and has to be done to a custom API. Of course Einstein analytics need to have it is
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Yes, that is true, but most WordPress sites are hosted on a cloud provider.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
"AWS isn't critical either, its bubbled because of easy startup money and lazyness. will be a good thing to see it fade away" Wait what ? Have you, been on the web at all ? Ten thousands of websites are hosted, or partially h
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
Bye bye Chrome...it was good while it lasted, although you have become a bit of a resource hog in recent years.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
It looks like Huawei's retaliation to Trump's ban. They must have been combing Fedex deliveries for mishaps they could use to build up a case Fedex is working together with US intelligence agencies.
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by oxfordmale 7y ago
>> We Can Do Better Than SQL (edgedb.com) No you can't. Many companies have tried, including very large and successful companies and have failed miserably. Just try out the JSON query language used by MongoDB, including their agg
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by oxfordmale 8y ago
I would recommend for the author of this article to read the original Agile manifesto and point out where the so called Agile methods and resourcing models are described. I am often only resourced 10% to some Agile projects, because my expe