There is something satisfying about the bounds of the cloud metaphor being reached (a cloud can't fill the sky).
A trip to Scotland will change your mind, fast...
That's a bit harsh, we've had at least 3 days this year where it wasn't raining!
Azure Appears to Be Full
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Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a pretty common model in many industries... If every gym member visited the gym at the same time, they wouldn't all fit. Only a small fraction of the members use the gym at any one time, so it works. Banks would crash if everyone tried to withdraw their money at the same time, but they don't, so the bank can loan the money out.
As a matter of fact, I cannot think of a single industry that can serve a full service to the entirety of their clients at a discrete point in time.
Garbage collection. As in the people who pick up your bins. They do this on a weekly basis.
Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a matter of fact, I cannot think of a single industry that can serve a full service to the entirety of their clients at a discrete point in time.
Garbage collection. As in the people who pick up your bins. They do this on a weekly basis.
But if all their customers want their garbage picked up today, or everyday, it won't work.
Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Garbage collection. As in the people who pick up your bins. They do this on a weekly basis.
But if all their customers want their garbage picked up today, or everyday, it won't work.
On any single day, they only have a set list of customers. This is part of the contract.
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#45Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. I have no particular info on this, but I did read the article _yesterday_ over breakfast, followed links to complaints, etc., and would like to point out two things: 1. This appears to be a UK-centric thing (and those datacenters don't have the full Azure portfolio, as can be seen here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/serv... ) 2. The very last paragraph on th…
We're having problems creating VMs and databases in West Europe and North Europe, so it's not just a UK problem.
Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#46This is a bit like the financial crisis in 2008. In 2008, the idea was that if you bundle up a large bunch of mortgages, then the bundle will have low risk because the chances of everything failing at the same time is low. The cloud is designed so that resource usage spikes of individual customers can always be served because one customer is very small compared to the whole infrastructure. However, in some cases, the…
It's a pretty common model in many industries... If every gym member visited the gym at the same time, they wouldn't all fit. Only a small fraction of the members use the gym at any one time, so it works. Banks would crash if everyone tried to withdraw their money at the same time, but they don't, so the bank can loan the money out.
> Only a small fraction of the members use the gym at any one time
Only a fraction of the members use the gym at all. If every member of the gym wanted to use it there would be no reasonable schedule to make that possible. ~50% of gym members use it less than 100 times per year, and only ~25% use it consistently.
For banks depending on legislation they have to keep 0/3/10% in reserves, depending on the size of the bank. Which is far worse than most clouds or gyms would ever offer.
Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a matter of fact, I cannot think of a single industry that can serve a full service to the entirety of their clients at a discrete point in time.
Garbage collection. As in the people who pick up your bins. They do this on a weekly basis.
Garbage collectors, like clouds, have usage based pricing, and cannot handle everyone spiking at once. They can handle everyone at normal baseline usage, but that's just like saying a cloud provider can handle everyone using the same number of reserved instances they’ve purchased on a long-term basis.
Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Garbage collection. As in the people who pick up your bins. They do this on a weekly basis.
But if all their customers want their garbage picked up today, or everyday, it won't work.
More relevant to the cloud analogy, if all their customers wanted to purchase a large extra pickup (beyond their normal baseline) on their normal day, which is part of garbage service offerings, they wouldn't be able to accommodate it.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if all their customers want their garbage picked up today, or everyday, it won't work.
More relevant to the cloud analogy, if all their customers wanted to purchase a large extra pickup (beyond their normal baseline) on their normal day, which is part of garbage service offerings, they wouldn't be able to accommodate it.
Aha, thank you for finding the flaw in my example! I lounge corrected ;-)
Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#50Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. I have no particular info on this, but I did read the article _yesterday_ over breakfast, followed links to complaints, etc., and would like to point out two things: 1. This appears to be a UK-centric thing (and those datacenters don't have the full Azure portfolio, as can be seen here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/serv... ) 2. The very last paragraph on th…
P.S.: Thanks for the downvotes, I needed a reminder of the HN reaction to pointing out things people gloss over in articles...