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Dental and vanity surgeries aren't happening in a vacuum. There are baseline costs eg. anesthesia, recovery medications, medical machinery etc which are all bloated due to the rest…

Because insurance companies incentivize upward price momentum. The ones who innovate and bring the prices down are not rewarded for their efforts. Health inflation is higher than h…

This is very good use case of micro-transactions. If AWS makes $100 off Redis, they should be pay back X% to Redis project, from which the money is distributed to contributors base…

Wrote something on similar lines[1]. To understand a song completely I needed to dig deep in the artist's life & philosophy, the same with lyrics. I stopped trying to relate and ma…

Is that really a problem in Cloud environments where you would typically use a Cluster Autoscaler? GKE has "optimize-utilization" profile or you could use a descheduler to binpack …

Wouldn't the network cost be absurd in such case? Not only the pod-to-pod communication cost skyrocket, all the heartbeats, health checks, metrics, daemonsets pinging each other wi…

GKE Autopilot is pretty much useless, very few cases where it actually turns out cheaper than simply using Cluster Autoscaler + Node autoprovisioning. Not only is the pricing absol…

Datadog allows you to export all of this but I don't see how that's any useful. You can't really port Datadog dashboard to let's say Grafana easily. The query languages they use do…

> unless your a whale they give zero fucks about giving you any flexibility on price. Even the flexible pricing they offer ends up being a sham. It just seems better on paper but y…

> The company also noted that it'll offer 50% better multithreaded performance than an Apple M2, but didn't speak on single-core CPU performance. Single threaded performance - http…

How do you know the feeling(s) you are optimizing for are the right ones? A murderer is also optimizing for a feeling.

This is not a bare-metal vs Cloud comparison, the Cuber PaaS is supposed to run on anything including cloud based on their docs. So when they say "save 80% on cloud costs" I am ass…

> We had 100% uptime and we saved 80% on cloud costs. Is there a source on such bold claims?

GKE in general seems to be doing better than EKS though. They have a lot of things right and EKS seems to be playing catch-up. For example if you look at any Multi-cluster Kubernet…

It takes very long time for going from preview to actual production usage for anyone. We had T2D preview access more than a year ago, it took several months to get enough stock in …

Yes, I point this out in the article too. Which CPU will perform better is heavily dependent on your workloads, so I refrain from relying 100% on synthetic benchmarks and directly …

The dead thing is Intel (x86) and the successor is AMD (x86) as opposed to ARM in our case. Isn't it correct?

Cloud world is really slow. Imagine writing about Zen3 Milan in Aug 2023 when AMD has already announced Zen4c Bergamo. Actually we were "ahead of the curve" since we got access to …

Thanks, that's a really insightful article! > Since you are using Go and targeting a specific modern CPU, you may also get a measurable benefit from setting GOAMD64=v3 That's actua…

That is true. But in cloud our hands our tied, we cannot really switch from one one generation to another so easily. GCP has so far never launched a new chip while keeping the pric…

We did a migration from GCP's Intel based E2 instances to AMD's T2D instances and saw huge 30% savings in overall compute! It is similar amount of savings folks got from switching …

Would be better to use OpenTelemetry vocabulary. This seems to be RUM product - https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/issues/169

Were people using it as an actual ES replacement for logs? fluentd -> GCP log sink -> BQ can get awful if you need to work with it on daily basis

If someone is making profit does not mean you are making a loss. Both consumer and producer could end up making profits depending on the situation