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Don't hold having an MBA against Jassy :). I have been in those ops meetings at AWS when Andy Jassy and Charlie Bell used to hold court. There wasn't much MBA-speak there. Jassy ca…

This problem would have been even more pronounced if running from a co-lo/non-cloud entity. Imagine getting a court-ordered shutdown or confiscation of servers for evidence etc. Fr…

We reported this issue back in 2018 to AWS! In our case it was exacerbated because of a NAT through which traffic to the cross-AZ loadbalancer would flow. As mentioned in the artic…

While AWS has ruffled a bunch of feathers with their Elasticsearch and Kafka managed offerings which can be easily construed as attempts to steam roll the respective open source-fi…

I am an SDE with Amazon having worked across AWS and the retail side. I have done over a hundred interviews in the past 2 years for SDE loops. Each of these involved a debrief led …

With apparently 5 mn users, Microsoft just paid ~$200 per user... C.R.A.Z.Y. This just beat Instagram to a pulp as the yard stick for ridiculous valuation. When do I see an Oatmeal…

Watched the video. It appears MS is making a magnetic keyboard! ...And you get some sort of a tablet with it.

I think the problem also depends on what kind of virtual disk you end up using. Let me ellaborate: I dont think the problem is purely buffered vs. unbuffered IO. The guest operatin…

Hats off to the Xen developers like Jeremy Fitzhardinge and others that persevered despite what was quite stiff resistance from the Linux community initially! Just to clarify, the …

Clearly you mean oracle here. Being an ex RH-er I can tell you RH sees great value in centos. It keeps small shops on the RH reserve even if they don't pay for a support contract -…