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You definitely shouldn't be storing logs on giant PVCs; they should be injested into a log aggregator.

"For Basecamp, we take a somewhat different path. We are on record about our feelings about sharding. We prefer to use hardware to scale our databases as long as we can, in order t…

You're half right. The "bre" e is pronounced like pen or bed, not bray.

It's not.

I'd be incredibly grateful if someone could break this down for me.

Are you from 2018? Everyone running OpenShift is using CRI-O and that footprint is not small. We made the switch in our EKS and vanilla k8s clusters in 2021. Docker has now even ma…

Docker is heavier (and more dangerous) because of dockerd, the management and api daemon that runs as root. Actual process isolation is handled by cgroup controls which are already…

Up until recently, I was the steward of a large, distributed, and profitable app that used no containers. The infrastructure was managed with packages and puppet, and it worked wel…

Folders work perfectly in a pure hierarchical taxonomy. Many classifications defy this rigid of a structure, however. For example: Widget 1: it is A and B but not C, so tag it with…

That would be a hard link, though they can't cross filesystem boundaries.

Our current CloudFormation pipeline template is over 5,000 lines of yaml. That's probably on the high-end, but based on your statements, it sounds like you haven't seen a corporate…

I worked at a company that had Target and other Fortune 500 retailers as clients, and we had very strict SLAs with financial penalties if we broke them. There was absolutely the po…

>cloud is no panacea That is the subtitle of this article I wrote last month - https://medium.com/@rykrk/everything-is-just-build-vs-buy-d7... I note that the grandparent's premise…

Yes, TCO can be higher, depending where you are on the curve of capex, amortization, and staffing costs. Don't forget you still need at least Developers, DevOps, and Security. If y…

You're correct on staffing savings, but not on Ops savings. I delved into this pretty thoroughly last month - https://medium.com/@rykrk/everything-is-just-build-vs-buy-d7...

PassBolt comes to mind.

> I guarantee you they are not. I'm speaking from firsthand knowledge. How embarrassing for you to think that because you know some Private Equity folks (generally the worst people…

Nobody is arguing that a startup needs a datacenter; that is a ridiculous straw man. I'm well aware of the costs, having managed multiple colos as well as multiple cloud footprints…

Again, you don't need to build an S3 replacement; you can deploy it onto k8s. This is the same skill set whether in a public or private cloud. Agree, I don't think anyone is buying…

Don't forget Minio for S3. I took your previous comment to be about on-prem cloud technology. It exists and does not need to be "cloned". If you were taking about staffing resource…

> Most data center machines run at a tiny fraction of their capabilities; seeing a CPU running at 25% is definitely something that stands out. Are you familiar with VMware?

> cloning No need to clone; all of this already exists. Take a look at CNCF.

> who is going to pay for the person to patch it every week, or upgrade it to the latest version, or upgrade the SAN disk, or upgrade the hardware every 3 years, etc. etc. Let's ta…

and XSAN