throwawayacct4q

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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
I would love to see those training materials! I don't see any contact info, but maybe you could shoot me an email to the email in my profile?
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
Point well taken. But as many have mentioned in this thread, it is very hard to hire good people and the people I have already have deep knowledge of the systems and business and are good at what they do. Just from that efficiency perspecti
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
I have built multi-cloud, totally cloud-agnostic deployments at my previous company with terraform, for really interesting reasons. At least for tf even if you are spinning up a VM and installing something like postgres on it (cloud agnosti
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
Yes, 1000%. I have many friends who went to (and are now principals at) MBB and I hear all their stories and I would not under any circumstances use a large consultancy for this advice, I can guess their advice before even contacting them.
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
These are really helpful insights. Thank you. Position wise yes, high level newly-minted CTO-ish-type office sounds about right, sorry to be vague. Decision is made, implementation and vendor selection is the hard part. I have already moved
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
No. As an engineer myself, this is exactly what I'm working to avoid. I know we could terminate, but these people have built careers and have deep knowledge of the systems and business, I'm not letting them go without at least giv
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
You really have this completely wrong. I am a systems/network engineer and am newer to the business side. Asking here to get some upsight into the people side. Thank you for pointing out that things run on servers, that was news to me.
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
Maybe so, I haven't made this move before, which is part of the reason I'm asking here, as unlikely as it may be that "someone who is in this position would be asking on HN." Sorry for being vague on all of this. Regardl
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
I’m unclear why it was flagged. It’s a legitimate question and problem I’m facing. I totally recognize these improvements are better overall, which is why I’m doing it, just wondering a bit about the people side of it.
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
Best way to retrain without having to pay AWS a huge fee for all the certs?
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
Thousands, many close to retirement age. Think a company like UPS/Fedex that isn't at its core a tech company but with tech datacenters for logistics and billions in revenue.
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
Our business is an old, traditional business that happens to have lots of data centers for legacy reasons. Even though we spend $BBB on data centers, they're not the core of the business and a very small part of overall revenue. Realis
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by throwawayacct4q 8y ago
Actually the cost savings hinge on the massive cost savings from moving to a commercial cloud, laying off workforce would save more, but would prefer to save a bunch by moving to cloud and keep the workforce for other things.
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Ask HN: If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
181 points by throwawayacct4q 8y ago|142 comments