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gVisor has basically re-implemented most of syscall api, but only when the host is also Linux.

I've see this happen to a number of friends. Most of them have enough saving that they can 'retire', but none of them wanted to retire yet. It often means moving away from friends …

As a customer of serverless, you do not have to manage any servers, that is provided by the platform. Even with a platform like EKS, the customer is still responsible for selecting…

Having worked on both AWS and GCP, my experience was that AWS had a much better organizational grasp on how to price services. They track the predicted revenue/costs compared to th…

aws cli cp can copy between buckets.

S3 explicitly changed their license to allow copying the S3 API. I forget the year, ~2010? I was working an S3 at the time and it was a strongly debated decision. Google’s initial …

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Some of the cultural issues around avoiding virtual came from hard lessons with v1.0. After shipping v1 they realized that there were a large set of security and compatibility issu…

Last I checked, Eucalyptus is missing an number of the APIs that customers really use once they are doing more than just hosting a few VMs. Access control, security, VPN... The ser…

Amazon and especially Amazon Web Services are hiring. Looking to work on a very large distributed system and the opportunity to impact a huge customer base? Come join S3! https://u…