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Also Gdash[1] and many others I agree with your sentiment though. [1] https://github.com/ripienaar/gdash

Try ordering a couple of thousand Rome servers from Dell right now and you might be surprised.

I wonder if your Heroku values, would be more widely known if it had a more generic name https://gist.github.com/adamwiggins/5687294 Again, like 12factor, it's a collection of them…

8x is close to the top end, somewhere between 3x and 10x depending on a number of factors, mostly scale. For the record I factor in: - Hardware depreciation (36mo) - Power - People…

Curious if you tested POC for simple COE?

Melatonin is now available from Chemists. You need to do a short online consultation but other than that it’s straight forward to buy

Looks great, would love and use something like this for GCP

Virtualised control plane is totally fine. Next step is containerised OpenStack.

Pros: - economy of scale, if you are large enough OS is very cost effective - OSS - No vendor lock in Cons: - Complexity - Lack of features and higher level abstractions v public c…

Definitely ahead of their time, Openstack wasn't formed until 2010

Absolutely. You get it. It's frustrating to read people comparing container technologies or worse container schedulers with OpenStack. Apples and oranges. If you are planning on ru…

Those folks that run their own private clouds, what services did you add on top of the basic IAAS to make your private cloud a success? High level abstractions or low level service…

In HTTP2 the opposite is true. Single domain will help you with performance

There are a few factors here. Depreciation: is typically three years for hardware purchased rather than leased. At the end of 3 years the item has zero value thus can be replaced. …

I love when the guys from Etsy present at conferences and they start with that joke: We are a monitoring company with a side line in being an online marketplace

CEPH is a volume service not an object storage service. SWIFT is indeed analogous to S3.

Dont you have to pay for an enterprise licence if you want multi region/datacentre/AZ?

It's very dangerous to assume the UK will get the same sort of deal as Norway. Norway has some unique cultural and exononomic attributes that are very different from the UK. Whilst…

In the context of a public cloud we need more users.

This news is a long time coming but I am super pleased that they got this announcement out before the OpenStack Summit next month. After the failure of the HP public cloud Openstac…

> It's actually not that much. Current consumer desktop hard drives top out at 8T (you can get enterprise RAID boxes of up to 48T now, but leave them out of the equation). 1P/day ~…

There is an nginx module for this.

My question is the reverse: "What's the worst culture you have been part of at a company and were you able to change it"

WAF are a bad idea imvho. They can give a false sense of security and the feeling that security is being taken care of. The reality is theta they are generally not very good at cat…

Twenty plus 1-1s, means twenty plus direct reports. No wonder the guy was burnt out. That number is simply not manageable in any worthwile way. The rest of the article just reads l…