vivekl

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by vivekl 6y ago
Don't hold having an MBA against Jassy :). I have been in those ops meetings at AWS when Andy Jassy and Charlie Bell used to hold court. There wasn't much MBA-speak there. Jassy can burrow through deeply technical issues, spot fun
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by vivekl 6y ago
This problem would have been even more pronounced if running from a co-lo/non-cloud entity. Imagine getting a court-ordered shutdown or confiscation of servers for evidence etc. Frankly you would expect a "high"-profile/
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by vivekl 6y ago
We reported this issue back in 2018 to AWS! In our case it was exacerbated because of a NAT through which traffic to the cross-AZ loadbalancer would flow. As mentioned in the article, the client side is free to reuse ports as long as the de
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by vivekl 7y ago
While AWS has ruffled a bunch of feathers with their Elasticsearch and Kafka managed offerings which can be easily construed as attempts to steam roll the respective open source-first entities, I am actually quite impressed by the mechanism
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by vivekl 13y ago
I am an SDE with Amazon having worked across AWS and the retail side. I have done over a hundred interviews in the past 2 years for SDE loops. Each of these involved a debrief led by bar raisers. I have yet to experience a "veto"
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by vivekl 14y ago
With apparently 5 mn users, Microsoft just paid ~$200 per user... C.R.A.Z.Y. This just beat Instagram to a pulp as the yard stick for ridiculous valuation. When do I see an Oatmeal comic on this?
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by vivekl 14y ago
Watched the video. It appears MS is making a magnetic keyboard! ...And you get some sort of a tablet with it.
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by vivekl 15y ago
I think the problem also depends on what kind of virtual disk you end up using. Let me ellaborate: I dont think the problem is purely buffered vs. unbuffered IO. The guest operating system will have performed some block coalescing anyway so
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by vivekl 15y ago
Hats off to the Xen developers like Jeremy Fitzhardinge and others that persevered despite what was quite stiff resistance from the Linux community initially! Just to clarify, the major stumbling block was the Dom0 - Xen's privileged domain
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by vivekl 16y ago
Clearly you mean oracle here. Being an ex RH-er I can tell you RH sees great value in centos. It keeps small shops on the RH reserve even if they don't pay for a support contract - yet. Oracle has recently tried to position itself as an "en