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* Scaleway is totally painful/scary on data encryption at rest and in transit, does not feel like your infra/data is isolated from other customers * OVHCloud is good if you deploy …

Having done in the same day 6 hours of psycho-technical and psycho-motor tests at Air France to get into their "Pilote Cadet" program (4h in the morning then 2h in the afternoon af…

From what I understand, you still have to solve the usual hard challenges of HA: 1) Applications reconnecting to the new Postgres master and retrying queries 2) Persistent storage …

> 2) you are invisible From personal experience riding in the chaos that is Paris traffic for almost 10 years. I really scared myself maybe 3-4 times with bicycles running red ligh…

You a need a shitload more RAM for sure and this also forgets about plugging a SAN, and any SAN from IBM is super expensive on hardware AND licenses.

IMO it's quite following the same trends as the stock market. Elon Musk makes statements on Twitter about how Bitcoin is an environmental disaster and rolls back on accepting Bitco…

There are a few Teslas with over 500,000 miles! They have a leader board but I can't find an up to date version. https://twitter.com/TeslaMiles https://insideevs.com/news/339110/hi…

Why no one realizes developing software on MacOS/ARM and target Linux/x86 is a bad idea?

IBM mainframes virtual machines saying hello => "It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/VM

Have you ever worked on an IT infrastructure where there is no comments in the source code, no documentation, no normalization, no specs? I am not talking about COBOL itself, I am …

Until some COBOL developer publishes his pay slip, I will stick to reality, top IT salaries are at tech giants. From personal experience: BNP Paribas is one of the biggest bank in …

Disclaimer: lived in Paris for 20 years, specifically got my motorcycle license to avoid traffic jams and parking tickets 5 years ago. Quick facts about Paris: - there is motorcycl…

Last time I worked on mainframes in 2012 the price to have a legacy banking app running with around 300 transactions/sec on IMS or DB2 was just insane. IMO any "modern" architectur…

IBM missed the 21st century turn, and buying Red Hat will probably not save everything [1]. Mainframes are just too expensive, even with open-source software running from the Canon…

Side-note: you don't need to completely severe a cable to lose signal, you just need to damage enough the fiber core inside. Although recent cables are a lot more flexible, bending…

I only use CityMapper now in Paris 1) I don't want to feed the Google behemoth 2) It's very very accurate, even tells if you should get in the back/center/front to be closer to nex…

She's applying short sighted solutions for the declining 2 million of "rich" Parisians (aka her electors) in an area of 12 million. She's basically flipping the bird to more 80% of…

One day I have to take the time to write a blog post on how I started my engineering career at IBM working on mainframe at 21, then freaked out 6 years later in one of the biggest …