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This hit me when moving from a start-up to a FAANG. There is effectively an infinite amount of work for me to do on any given day, so at some point I just have to decide to stop - …

Solving storage at the tens of TB scale with commodity hardware is fine to a point (I have a ZFS NAS at home) but has much more ongoing maintenance burden than S3 and you need at l…

> Are you saying we should stick with AWS because most stick with AWS? Broadly speaking yes - there is a lot of value in having a deeper pool of skilled people to hire from, and th…

I have heard too many horror stories about Ceph (and OpenStack) to be confident about that. I certainly don't think I can truly beat S3 on cost or performance at the terabyte scale…

Those are fair points - I have seen truly spiky workloads like that very occasionally, but more often those spikes are a precursor to more sustained usage in a similar manner and s…

As an addendum to this: if you absolutely must use cloud, stick with AWS. Using Azure is (IMO) a fucking miserable experience and their only advantage (InfiniBand) is better served…

I work in HPC for a cloud provider, and fully endorse this move. Anonymously, of course. You can make an economic argument for or against cloud in practically every IT domain, but …

Anything by Rooster Teeth is worth a try for comedy; not to everyone's taste, but if you like the main RT podcast there is a long backlog worth listening to. Skipping back 200 epis…