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Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud

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Post by goldenkey »

echelon wrote: post #214
roel_v wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I'll never click on" Doesn't matter, impressions are valuable to marketers as well. "or be persuaded by ads" Yes you will, you just think you don't/won't.

> Yes you will, you just think you don't/won't. That's a really blanket statement. I'm rather minimalist, and I typically form negative opinions of the things I see in ads.

So the ads have an impression on you... dun dun dun.

I saw a comment about the north korea pics earlier yesterday. It was referring to propaganda. Apparently the purpose of censored speech and propaganda wasnt so much to sway opinion and be cloaked as truth, rather it was an irresistable pleasure for rebels to decry and thereby reveal themselves. You might think that a deliberate attitude toward advertising can defeat it but the subconscious does not answer to your control :-)

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Post by olavgg »

jamwt wrote: post #39
riobard wrote: post #37

> Measuring only one-and-half-feet by three-and-half-feet by six inches, each Diskotech box holds as much as a petabyte of data This number is very interesting. Basically Diskotech stores 1PB in 18" × 6" × 42" = 4,536 cubic inch volume, which is 10% bigger than standard 7U (17" × 12.2" × 19.8" = 4,107 cubic inch). 124 days ago Dropbox Storage Engineer jamwt posted here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10541052…

The difference to get even higher is our system supports host-managed SMR disks that come in 10T and 14T sizes.

What interface and protocol do your drives have/use? Is it SATA, SAS or a custom interface/protocol?

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Post by driverdan »

jimbokun wrote: post #128
barkingcat wrote: post #72

The word "cloud" loses all meaning in this article. "The irony is that in fleeing the cloud, Dropbox is showing why the cloud is so powerful. It too is building infrastructure so that others don’t have to. It too is, well, a cloud company." Wait ... so using AWS is "cloud", having your own servers is "cloud" too. Everything is cloudy!

Was discussing "in the cloud" with my wife yesterday, and I said "It just means on some company's servers." Which suddenly de-mystified the whole concept for her.

Your comment takes on a whole new meaning with the cloud-to-butt extension. "Was discussing "in my butt" with my wife yesterday..."

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Post by driverdan »

echelon wrote: post #171

Unrelated to the content of the article--I've never seen the oft talked about "anti-adblocker interstitial" before. I was surprised to find that the website blocks viewing of the article entirely because I'm running Adblock. It's an interesting subject. I'll never click on or be persuaded by ads, so they're not really gaining anything by showing me ads. I'm essentially worthless traffic to them no matter how they cut…

Switch to uBlock Origin. I didn't see any such message.

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Post by Spooky23 »

tschellenbach wrote: post #179
Spooky23 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at all. I work at a decent size enterprise... Buying off the shelf hardware providing an s3 style API saves us a significant amount of money, and while our scale is large, it isn't a fraction of what Dropbox is.

I think this is only true at mid sized usage. Too small to negotiate with AWS (and have an impact on their numbers) and still big enough to matter to your budget. Dropbox should have been able to get a better deal.

Use case matters too. S3 is the "gateway drug" for the rest of the AWS services.

If you're not going to adopt wholesale, the outbound network costs make it very expensive.

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Post by yberreby »

max_ wrote: post #225

whats the "brand new programming language" the writer meant ?

It is Rust[1]:

> So, in the middle of this two-and-half-year project, they switched to Rust on the Diskotech machines. And that’s what Dropbox is now pushing into its data centers.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4adabk/the_epic_story... for more information.

[1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/

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