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Most of my European clients fall in two categories: 1. Ain't nobody got time/care to move out of AWS/azure but we can consider alternatives on new stuff. 2. We moving all to European cloud vendors and gonna mail them to ditch US hardware as well. The first group is bigger than the second. One wish to say trump has done damage, but he was voted and he's doing exactly what he said he would do so it's hard to treat this…
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Do Europe need AI datacenters to survive? AI is immature technology that is not yet critical to anything.
Define 'survive'. Given Europe's productivity gap with the US, they appear they are becoming even further a vassal. They will survive, but they further lose their leverage with each year. We see this in international politics as the US pivots away from Europe and towards Asia. (Although Russia's decline has also made it less necessary too) If you want Europe to rejoin 'great powers', as 'survival', yes they need AI.
However what is mostly practical is to avoid building on their proprietary layers and stick to relatively portable tech. Just treat it like highly flexible servers / generic services provisioned through APIs. It's a battle to stop "cloud experts" from cargo culting "best practices" which invariably involve everything they can find at the extreme end of the proprietary stack.
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I've been using DNSimple for ages and I'm looking to switch; not because of geopolitical reasons (I'm American), but they're just damn expensive for the simple dns and domain management stuff I use them for.
Are there other good ones with such a nice API?
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> why Europe should start treating us like Russians. I don't know, maybe because your president is a dangerous lunatic? I really enjoy these "are we the baddies?" moments.
Was that not an imperative statement agreeing with your cathartic comment? A little weird there isn't an explicit "this is why", but asking questions with a poorly conjugated why along with bad punctuation isn't usually a native speakers habit.
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My theory is that 80% of workloads on AWS/GCP/Azure are pure waste. They sell complexity-as-a-service. 80% of startups and enterprises could run on a single beefy baremetal server (or two). AWS/GCP/Azure are the result of hype bubbles and VC-funded waste culture, it's not necessary for Europe to recreate that to compete.
I once had a working program, running on a 4 GB RAM virtual server with MongoDB. Everything was fast and testing and deploying a new version took me some minutes usually. Existing users were happy as far as I could tell. But then some corporate IT guy mandated everything had to be using managed AWS services in some three tier dev-test-production setup, despite having no prior experience with that on either side. Cost…
I would love to write an email that start with "I can reduce cost 25 times by doing thing X" (the tricky part is hiding the fact that "X" is what you were doing before.)
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The massive sanctions he's placing on Russian oil make that impossible to believe.
Those can also be explained by favouring usa/venezuela oil while still supporting Russian politics. For example: in the Ukraine war he is constantly seeking ways and arguments to support putins position even though he is one of the few leaders worldwide who do this.
The fact that you can divine pro-Putin things from his speech means nothing compared to him performing massively powerful economic action against Putin.
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The massive sanctions he's placing on Russian oil make that impossible to believe.
You must be one of the few who still believes what Trump says to the media after nearly 100k proven lies.