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zsmith928

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About zsmith928

CEO of Packet. Payments and Cloud entrepreneur.

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    Comment #15806714

    awesome stuff! Great to see AWS pushing things around the baremetal problem set.

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    Comment #12964397

    we managed to get more online -- please go ahead and try again!

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    Comment #12961939

    Yes, we are considering a Type 0 ARM server, but we are still working through the proper design to enable full Armv8 (vs v7).

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    Comment #12961170

    FYI I'm from Packet. Agreed reliability is important (I'll let others comment on our own record) but I'd say there is significant workload via spot market, batch processing, etc th…

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    Comment #11816656

    are there any performance metrics for Tarus yet?

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    Comment #11816591

    what is the existing alternative for storage in distributed container environments?

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    Comment #11742546

    So $0.05/hr is pretty cheap, but agreed free trial is better. We made a little page with $25 on it if you'd like to try it out! https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/

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    Comment #11457293

    Howdy - Zac here from Packet. The clients of ours that leverage the by-the-hour model generally use the same devops tools (Terraform, Docker Machine, Ansible, etc) against our API …

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    Comment #11059386

    such an interesting thread, thanks for bringing this up! At Packet, we've been working to support CoreOS and their Distributed Trusted Computing ( https://tectonic.com/trusted-comp…

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    Comment #10765588

    I've met Rishi @ Tiingo a few times and the fact of the matter is he is super passionate about liberating financial data and tools. I think that his pricing model and generosity ar…

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    Comment #9359981

    awesome read, can't wait to see your results on performance, etc.

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    Comment #8914554

    @AndyNemmity I totally agree - the Ironic guys (particularly jroll) are awesome and were very helpful.

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    Comment #8636531

    Great read and really does an awesome job showing not only the tech of what NSOne has built, but the 'why' behind the 'how'. DNS is such a deceptively simplistic service, but I thi…