My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
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Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
#2Not sure if it’s just me but I get an invalid SSL cert warning and can’t load the page (DDG mobile browser)
Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
#3Where I work we have a 10K a year server budget but used to just use free Heroku instance
Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
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Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
#5Where I work we have a 10K a year server budget but used to just use free Heroku instance
Yeah, but this article is about keeping backups, and Heroku deletes data from paying customers without notifying them first.
Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
#6Not sure if it’s just me but I get an invalid SSL cert warning and can’t load the page (DDG mobile browser)
Works for me on a random old android browser (that wraps around standard webview afaik), using Android 10 or 11 not sure
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Well, then you missed the story. It's more like a life insurance policy that kills you when you turn 67, and pays out when you turn ninety.
Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
#8My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.
Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
#9The author makes a good progression in their reasoning but then somehow arrives to the wrong conclusion:
> So when someone says that Amazon has invested a lot of money into security I think about the fact that Ubisoft spent $1M on a backup solution that didn’t work for the game that would have had the best use of it.
The missing point here is thst ubisoft is/was spending money for something outside of its domain of expertise, and managed to make a suboptimal decision. Amazon however is spending money on two of its core domains of expertise: building and managing datacenters and building and operating web services.
Not to mention, aws is very clear and explicit about what is their responsibility and what’s your responsibility (security of the cloud vs security in the cloud).
Sad to see such a nice post ending like that.
Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
#10My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.
Are they planning on hiring more reports?