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Start by building a business that isn't differentiated by how many 9s you have. Something customers want so badly that a few hours of inconvenient downtime doesn't move the needle …

> I like the power that we see with cheap commodity hardware, but we mustn't forget that it's crap. Google grew up (early days) using cheap white box consumer PCs while "best pract…

I think it's more an architecture question. If one box works, stop building on services that force horizontal thinking, and pricing, from the get go. You can solve one box availabi…

> 2. Unidirectional end-to-end latency only applies to streaming data. Agreed that his "across the world" example is a bit silly. Because he doesn't take into account the connectio…

I do something similar with stripe. I add two items to the subscription. A base unit that charges a fixed price up front and monthly thereafter. And usage based second item that bi…

I do something similar with stripe. I add two items to the subscription. A base unit that charges a fixed price up front and monthly thereafter. And usage based second item that bi…

New billing primitives. Cost per invocation on functions and edge requests where it used to included in GB/h and bandwidth. Cost per cache read and write instead of lumping it all …

Making stuff faster is relatively straightforward engineering. Optimisation is a favored past time of many engineers. Getting stuff that people value enough to pay for, to make mon…

> 2. The founder doesn’t understand that the value in a startup isn’t the idea but the ability to execute and build on that idea. The best startups have both. You can execute, grea…

I've seen such title inflation work for people. Recently watched a relatively young person parley a position at a small company with a VP title that resulted in a slot at a regiona…

> it's not like you're going to realize equivalent margins by running your own little server I get even better than their margins. In the neighborhood of 100x cheaper. It's not roc…

AWS spends tons of engineering time on features you don't need. There is a lot more than 30% on the table.

The cheap instances are ipv6 only and only a couple of their regions have them. Atlanta, I think, does. But yeah, it's a teaser that isn't realistic. At least for me.

> nobody measures such metrics: size, bloat, speed... Have you ever looked at the bloat of linkedin web? I've had tabs over 1GB memory use. Most bloated site I've ever used with an…

Apparently I don't understand. If the code isn't poor, why throw it away for a new even more complex system? I don't know how code isn't poor, yet is indecipherable. Regardless, th…

Sometimes API calls make 5-10 queries to the database. So it's 600ms to setup TLS and make a call at the origin server and the number of db calls is irrelevant. Or a quick TLS conn…

You could solve this other ways. Build a new better monolith and have a reverse proxy route between them and slowly update and move routes over. You will get through a rewrite slow…

If your database is a long ways off an edge connection could end up with a worse latency situation than TLS setup. Distributed database is usually painful.

> Fewer IT staff for systems mgt This hasn't been my experience. Replace sysadmin with cloud engineer/architect, salary bump, no reduction in quantity. This assumes you are mildly …

> 1:1 lift and shift is always obscenely more expensive. Is it? Managed services cost a lot more than a vm. Re writing software cost a lot more. Where are the savings?

> first of all, ahrefs discounts the "people" cost, but that's a huge cost to ignore! It's the hardest to compare. Cloud has a significant people cost too, particularly in the comp…

> You save money by re-architecting and using more managed services. Managed services are more expensive, not less, per unit compute, per operation, etc. How exactly does that make…

Modifying the base alphabet is simple if there are a couple of problem characters. I use 85 in json just fine without escaping overhead. Never tried for URLs or XML.

For your trouble, you save some extra bytes with 85 vs 64.

Rumors are of mainline support pretty quickly. But the proof will be when it actually happens.