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The podcast is awesome. Wish they would continue with more episodes!
They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.
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What's kind of messed up, at least for tiny companies like mine, is that renting an ugly PC-based dedicated server from a company like OVH is currently cheaper than paying for the equivalent computing power (edit: and outgoing data transfer) from a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS, even though the hyperscalers are probably using both space and power more efficiently than the likes of OVH. My cofounder will definite…
> renting an ugly PC-based dedicated server from a company like OVH is currently cheaper than renting the equivalent computing power from a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS That's not surprising, you're basically paying for scalability. An idle box doesn't even necessarily "waste" all that much energy if it's truly idle, since "deep" power-saving states are used pretty much everywhere these days.
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I think the intention is that those people are better served with consolidated cloud providers? -- or even single digits of physical colocated servers. It would be nice to have a known pricepoint from a cloud provider which once exceed you ask the question: "Should we buy a rack and COLO it?" Even if the answer is "no" it's still good to have that option. --- The thing is: Datacenter technology has moved on from 2011…
What's kind of messed up, at least for tiny companies like mine, is that renting an ugly PC-based dedicated server from a company like OVH is currently cheaper than paying for the equivalent computing power (edit: and outgoing data transfer) from a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS, even though the hyperscalers are probably using both space and power more efficiently than the likes of OVH. My cofounder will definite…
They’re not reasonably equivalent. But I don’t doubt that Amazon is laughing to the bank still.
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> renting an ugly PC-based dedicated server from a company like OVH is currently cheaper than renting the equivalent computing power from a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS That's not surprising, you're basically paying for scalability. An idle box doesn't even necessarily "waste" all that much energy if it's truly idle, since "deep" power-saving states are used pretty much everywhere these days.
Sure, the CPU may enter a power-saving state, but presumably for each box, there's a minimum level of power consumption for things like the motherboard, BMC, RAM, and case fan(s). The reason why AWS bare-metal instances are absurdly expensive compared to OVH dedicated servers is that AWS packs more computing power into each box. So for each core and gigabyte of RAM, I would guess AWS is using less power (edit: especi…
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Possible better security/performance through better architecture?
From what I've seen so far the same architecture could be achieved on Linux (e.g. Firecracker or Intel Cloud Hypervisor). To get great performance you often need to get elbow-deep in somebody else's driver and that may be just as much work as writing your own drivers.
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Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!
No, you will hear back. We're trying really hard to keep to the 6 weeks thing but sometimes we don't succeed.
Also in my experience, a fabulous candidate is sometimes only available for a very short time window (they either have become available due to unforeseen circumstances, or they are snapped up by a faster mover).
Is six weeks fast in your opinion?
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The podcast is awesome. Wish they would continue with more episodes!
They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.
On one hand I'm excited at the new content but a bit weird they way they stealth shutdown the podcast and started the twitter spaces thing up without saying anything or updating their homepage. Even their twitter feed only mentions the twitter space a couple of times (and doesn't appear to link to the archive).
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They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.
Whaaaaaaattt. And I've been here waiting for a new podcast, like an idiot... when they had this... Thanks for the info!
Recommendations technical:
- Twitter Space 12/13/2021 -- The Pragmatism of Hubris
- Twitter Space 12/6/2021 -- Tales from the Bringup Lab
- Twitter Space 11/29/2021 -- The Sidecar Switch
Historical:
- Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph
- Twitter Space 7/5/2021 -- NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories
- Twitter Space 5/31/2021 -- Silicon Cowboys
- Twitter Space 8/16/2021 -- The Showstopper Show
All of them are worth watching.
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Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!
No, you will hear back. We're trying really hard to keep to the 6 weeks thing but sometimes we don't succeed.