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Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions). It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote: """ * 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster) * 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get) * 300…
Flagged. This has been posted multiple times in the last day. Stop making new accounts repeatedly to get around the rules.
While my account is relatively young (13 days), it's not one day old. You can also look into my comments over this time. So, the accusation is clearly off.
I have said it before, I will say it again: Own your infrastructure.
It's hard to "own your infrastructure" when you needs are so extreme. Part of the job of tech workers is to make things efficient so that the company doesn't end up with an outsized OpEx or CapEx. With all this hardware required, they have made it impossible to own their own hardware.
I have said it before, I will say it again: Own your infrastructure.
I don't see any sources of revenue that could fund the hosting described.
When I was at Tumblr they also overbuilt a huge amount of infrastructure just because they had the investor money - they dropped something like 1.4 million on two Cisco routers, each one could probably handle all the traffic in South America - but you need two of them, right? They dropped another half million a year on four network engineers to manage the two routers, and they had nothing to do most of the time so they sat around staging gladiatorial contests between a couple turtles and whatever the pet shop had that day. I’m sure the users would have been outraged and canceled Tumblr if they knew that was going on.
Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions). It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote: """ * 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster) * 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get) * 300…
Seems rather excessive for a mid-tier social networking website.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's hard to "own your infrastructure" when you needs are so extreme. Part of the job of tech workers is to make things efficient so that the company doesn't end up with an outsized OpEx or CapEx. With all this hardware required, they have made it impossible to own their own hardware.
Uh, is it just me, or does that sound like a hell of a lot of hardware for a site with only 15,000,000 registered users and an average of 2,300,000 active ones?