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Last comment This was a bit back but not to far back. Took a significant pay rise. elsewhere and got to work with some other ex atlassian colleagues.

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Yeah it's odd as some very clever talented people have passed through there doors, some very mixed feelings towards them. The JVM is just getting warmed up load testing for that sh…

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It does not, I've lost alot of time profiling Kafka perf issues against clusters on the exact same hardware with exact same traffic but with a 3000% throughput difference. The root…

I'm the same. Happy with current functionality and the current price. It doesn't need to be the only product or have the most users it only needs to be functional and make enough m…

Effectiveness of daytime motorcycle headlights in the European Union, 43 page report https://www.swov.nl/sites/default/files/publicaties/rapport/... . In the summary section it say…

There was a lot of debate about this when daylight running lights where made mandatory on all new motorcycles in the EU. Most of it was on the lines of if every vehicle had lights …

The UK vs US salaries are not even in the same ball park. Sure they can't afford $1M but in general you are lucky to get $110k+ in the UK even if you have 10 years behind you, even…

The intetesting bit they miss detail on is why they are running k8 at the edge in restaurants. The only reason i can think of that is they get to push point of sale software out by…

"When strong commercial encryption becomes illegal"... criminals and terrorists will continue doing illegal things. They will not say "oh shit, encryption is illegal I better stop …

There is absolutely no reason other than the overhead you need to self manage the service like you would self manage any other internal service. If you are comfortable at operation…

I am a long time 1Password user, purchased Mac licenses, IOS and Android over the years. I was annoyed when it changed to being subscription based, the price wasn't an issue I thin…

Docker as in package internal services as a container then having them deployed to a cluster which handles orchestration for you great. Your internal service, microservice if you w…

You can but even in TB's of data never mind PB's it can take weeks to sync across. Also running two clusters to handle large volumes of data, it's big money. Even a small modest cl…

I've used LVM in AWS to present a single volume to Kafka >16TB which is their max EBS size. They report you can attach up to 40 EBS volumes. Growing LVM with XFSs has worked well, …

Not my experince. I'd say the majority of big data is unethical both in capture and use trying to sell you something or sell someone else something on you, a small amount is for ge…

Kafaka you get topics and partitions. Topics is a grouping of data, normally having a common schema. Partitions allow parallelism spreading the data across multiple brokers. Data o…

I get the Apple lock in eco-system but if it supported bluetooth pairing it opens itself to a far larger market and then they can up sell if you want the extra features, HomePod ap…

No. I completly agree with, it's far easier than debugging what configuration has been applied due to specfic annotations used.

B2 is great as a backup store. I use it for backup. I wouldn't use it for non backup object storage, as it's in a single data center. S3 and Google Cloud are completely different, …

I agree there is no clear winner. I mainly use Evernote. I'm trying my best to use org-mode more and sync with Google Drive as Evernote is subscription based and it comes down to d…

As I'm in a similar situation with Crashplan I've researched this a bit more (have just under 2TB so was originally just going to pay up for the business plan so cost wasn't to hig…

Is it possible to spin up a VPS then restore crashplan to that then seed Backblaze? Should be able to get max throughput and cost will be minimal if only have the VPN for the time …