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Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

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Re: Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

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Post by odammit »

jazoom wrote: post #136
odammit wrote: post #128

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Literally has been used as an intensifier for a figurative expression since the 1800s and has been defined in the dictionary that way for quite a while. It was used in this manner by Charles Dickens, James Joyce and American authors as well. Although, it pisses me off when I hear it used that way.

Unfortunately that usage makes the word completely useless for its actual meaning. It could have been a very useful word.

And I suppose no one will ever be able to describe the act of walking quick in work out clothes again because of all the people “running” to the store.

Re: Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

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Post by mrkurt »

pyvpx wrote: post #125
mrkurt wrote: post #95

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I work for a company people use to build CDNs. Just another turtle. :D

like physical infrastructure or something else? a bit curious (having many neteng friends at many, many CDNs)

I have similar friends!

We the whole stack for most people, but also run our software on "private cdns" for some. We primarily target devs: https://fly.io

Re: Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

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Post by Twirrim »

nandhp wrote: post #58
Twirrim wrote: post #35

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For years Dell would let it "leak" out to the press that they were looking at supporting AMD chips. It would happen every year like clockwork. Then after a month you'd hear that Dell and Intel had come up with a new deal to remain Intel exclusive.

Hasn't Dell offered AMD chips for a long time? Dell currently sells AMD-based laptops, and was doing so back in 2008 as well. For example, this Ryzen laptop: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-...

Yes, but I've been around the industry a while. I specifically remember this happening during the late 90s and just in to the 2000s.

It was occurring at a time when AMD was fairly firmly beating Intel on a straight $/performance basis (~K6 era). If Dell had started shipping AMD based systems back then it could have been a big game changer.

The general narrative around the tech press at the time was that Intel knew this and were desperate to keep Dell as Intel exclusive.

Re: Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

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Post by cortesoft »

johnmc408 wrote: post #109
mrkurt wrote: post #95

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I work for a company people use to build CDNs. Just another turtle. :D

Adding my turtle as a CDN employee ;-)

I wonder how many of the people in this chain are sitting next to me.....

Re: Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

thebootstrapper wrote: post #86
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #60

My prediction is that by 2020 Netflix will move a significant portion of their IT to Google Cloud. Why? Most of their architecture is microservices / linux containers / serverless, and Google is simply way better positioned there (with Kubernetes as their crown jewel). They will eventually win. Source: no source, just my "expert" opinion (6 years at AWS, 2 at VMware's cloud, currently CEO at a startup).

Isn't Netflix invested heavily on Mesos than k8s for their container orchestration? for example Titus https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/tagged/titus Fenzo https://github.com/Netflix/Fenzo

I know both Kubernetes and Mesos quite well. To be frank, they're on two different levels - and I assume the smart(er than me) guys at Netflix know that as well.
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