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by paulstovell 7y ago
Compute is one part of it but not much different across clouds. Databases are the other big part (each customer needs their own DB). The SQL Server databases in Azure for our usage scenario turns out a lot cheaper. We’ll explain more in a f
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by paulstovell 7y ago
The issue here is Octopus is like a CI server - customers can run arbitrary code in the instance (not a problem most SaaS apps have). So a VM per customer was almost the bare minimum. Cloud CI platforms typically solve this by timesharing b
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by paulstovell 7y ago
The post didn't make this very clear. $10 was the starting price - at the time it was for 5 users. Similar to Confluence or Jira with a very cheap (in this case loss-making) starting tier. Once a customer got to ~10 users it became pro
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by paulstovell 7y ago
None of this had anything to do with how the database is used.
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by paulstovell 7y ago
We’re confident our v2 architecture can. Current costs are between $10-15 per trial. Future posts will go into detail around how it works.
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by paulstovell 7y ago
The deployment itself worked flawlessly :-)
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by paulstovell 7y ago
The $10 was the starting price. It’s not uncommon for companies to have a cheaper “loss leader” tier.
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MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on our launch(octopus.com)
94 points by paulstovell 7y ago|97 comments
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by paulstovell 7y ago
This. I find it all confusing. Article A: Here’s a photo of a another galaxy so far away, showing XYZ. Article B: We suspect there’s another planet in our own solar system but we can’t find it and supposedly it’s too far away for us to phot
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by paulstovell 7y ago
Thank you. When I read the OP article I though “this isn’t the book I read”. I remember it as you described - a managers output is the output of their organisation.
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by paulstovell 7y ago
This. The biggest contributors to open source, and the most popular open source project maintainers, are now the mega corporations, who’ve figured out how to weaponise it (either to commoditise other competing software/services, or as
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by paulstovell 7y ago
Assuming $80k is market rate in the new location, if this person was paid $120k it creates another kind of risk: the person might be disgruntled and hate the job, but never leave, because they aren’t going to get $120k anywhere else. As an
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by paulstovell 7y ago
It didn’t used to be. When you set up a bucket with public read access, you might also decide to give other people on your team write access to the bucket. AWS conveniently provided an All Users option for this. Except it wasn’t “All Users
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by paulstovell 7y ago
Having a legal requirement for companies to report “suspicious” orders seems destined to fail. You receive an order for $XM in a product you sell. It looks suspicious. You can fulfil the order and make $XM, or you can report it and get... n
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Ask HN: How are large software teams split up?
10 points by paulstovell 7y ago|2 comments
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by paulstovell 8y ago
> But then you'll notice that they mostly talk about marketing marketing apps for marketers I loved this point! It’s so true. They go on about how such and such strategy worked so well for HubSpot. Of course it did, HubSpot has an e
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by paulstovell 8y ago
Yes, and it gets wierder because the standards aren’t law (or they would be public), but the law can require work to be done according to the standard. Most of the standards were developed with tax dollars too. It takes power away from home
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by paulstovell 8y ago
As I read this I was reminded of how trees in prehistoric times piled up because no bacteria had evolved to eat them yet: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01... We don’t feel so bad a
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by paulstovell 8y ago
So much this! At first the huge corporations saw OSS as a threat. Their model had been to spend money building software, then charge people for that software. Competing with $0 software scared them and caught them off guard. Now the corpora
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by paulstovell 8y ago
This is the best write up I have seen in a long time on this subject. Open source doesn’t exist in a vacuum without commercial influence. The best you can do is pick the influence. FAANG sponsor open source either for strategic reasons (the
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by paulstovell 8y ago
We have https://octopus.com , which is on the list. And first registered the year I was born. Has an interesting history: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2011/d2011.
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by paulstovell 9y ago
That’s the point though: when StackOverflow was born, people used forums to discuss such things. And forums had this annoying property of you having to scroll past a dozen opinions, off topic dicussion, and other rubbish to find the answer.
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by paulstovell 9y ago
(Octopus CEO here) You can do Linux today actually - you can connect to machines over SSH, run bash scripts, etc. Today there's a Mono dependency, but in the next couple of weeks we'll be rolling out a beta that removes that depen
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by paulstovell 10y ago
> Oracle took the average price of our product from $100k to $5 million for the same size deals. Our sales went from $5-7m to more than $40m with no increasing in engineering headcount (team of 15) Not that I like the Oracle sales model,
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by paulstovell 10y ago
In Australia police are funded at the state level, and most fines go to the state, but parking fines etc. go to the local councils. The benefit is that you get more consistency between police training across the state and pooled resources.
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Growth, traction, and usage statistics for Octopus Deploy(octopus.com)
2 points by paulstovell 10y ago|0 comments
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by paulstovell 11y ago
We put an explanation here (hope it's OK to post the link): https://octopus.com/blog/build-your-binaries-once A real world example of this is that when .NET 4.5 shipped, the compilers in .NET 4.5 for 4.0 code prod
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by paulstovell 11y ago
I really enjoyed this article. As an industry, when it comes to something essential like source control, we seem to have converged to a common set of practices and workflows. Deployment is arguably just as important, but I think the practic