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Restricting US companies from doing any business with Russia hurts the US economy too much.
No it doesn’t. Non-energy related trade is basically nil.
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I honestly don't know, what is vc backed, and how does that turn it's destiny into an exit?
They have taken money from venture capitalists who will expect a return on their investment via a sale. That is how the entire venture capital system works. This is all a matter of public record tho’ it makes uncomfortable reading for some. Those who fled Github to Gitlab when Microsoft bought the former might now find a critical piece of their workflow owned by Oracle!
Or, you know, an IPO. Which is precisely the exit they claim to want:
We want to IPO in 2020, specifically on Wednesday November 18.
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There are a few "cloud portability" companies, but the fundamental problem with this approach is that cloud providers don't offer the same APIs and pricing models. If all you want is virtual machines and block storage, you can do it, but the answer is that your site is going to be more expensive on any of the providers than if you built it for an architecture that fits your cloud. If you design for the strengths of,…
So, I would actually say that you can do it fairly easily with open source software these days. If you need apps to be hosted, something like Flynn can host the apps. If you need Lambda, you can rack your functions natively into OpenFaaS. The issue is that these systems aren't really 'multi-cloud capable'. I really tried to put together a 6 node Flynn cluster with 2 in AWS, 2 in GCP and 2 in Azure but the response ti…
The DIY approach is fantastic when you're interested in operating your own cluster on your own hardware, though - if you're mostly in a place where colo / datacenters makes sense to you, and you need a bit of something like Lambda, don't do a cloud migration just to get there.
Just as a sidenote: Gitlab may no longer be accessible any more from Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. From the article: NOTE to users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria GitLab.com may not be accessible after the migration to Google. Google has informed us that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for those countries. See this U.S. Department of the Treasury link for more d…
Just as a sidenote: Gitlab may no longer be accessible any more from Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. From the article: NOTE to users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria GitLab.com may not be accessible after the migration to Google. Google has informed us that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for those countries. See this U.S. Department of the Treasury link for more d…
This is very sad. We are using GitLab.com because the terms of use says: 21. Governing law [1] This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands. Is there a code hosting service in Europe or any place of the world that cubans can use? 1. https://about.gitlab.com/terms/#gitlab_com
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That would be a pretty awesome development. But Google buying a Rails platform would be kind of a surprise move.
I'd bet "being on the Rails stack" would carry little weight if they were deciding to acquire them.
php was pretty much a dealbreaker for google acquisition years ago. It pretty much means google might be happy to buy shares in the company as an investment, but won't buy the whole company and plan to integrate it into their own offering.
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They have taken money from venture capitalists who will expect a return on their investment via a sale. That is how the entire venture capital system works. This is all a matter of public record tho’ it makes uncomfortable reading for some. Those who fled Github to Gitlab when Microsoft bought the former might now find a critical piece of their workflow owned by Oracle!
> They have taken money from venture capitalists who will expect a return on their investment via a sale. Or, you know, an IPO. Which is precisely the exit they claim to want: We want to IPO in 2020, specifically on Wednesday November 18. https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/
Why is it that Microsoft are ok with serving traffic from countries under embargo but Google are not? As far as I know Amazon don't follow the embargo like this with AWS traffic either.
This might have something to do with how data on GCP will be encrypted at rest. US law treats encryption effectively as a weapon and restricts where products that include encryption can be shared.