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Who is Elmo?
Elon Musk, Twitter/X CEO, went to the data center and started unplugging things. You can’t make this stuff up! https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-... Why “Elmo”? https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-insiders-users-calli...
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Ya, in the past the messaging was more like "get the ergonomics of the cloud with the economics of owning your own hardware", I think it's confusing to just call it a "cloud computer"
Yes - that makes loads more sense to me. It's cool that you can spin stuff up and it's all integrated with the hardware - having seen fairly large VMWare installations and all the faff it takes to make them work, this seems really useful. I just don't think it's the same as the cloud, and the article seems to discount the main reason for the cloud: opex, letting you get started (and stopped) quickly and cheaply.
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It may be a limited market. You need to be large enough for a private cloud to make sense, but above a certain size it also should be a no-brainer to have a competent ops team making you less dependent on a singular infrastructure provider.
Maybe 37signals type businesses, SMB tech startups with a serious, stable, non-high growth business model and a tech savvy team. If you're selling $500k boxes you don't need to sell a TON of them to make a hundred million dollar business. Unless their VCs expect Oxide to be a billion dollar company with a broader market.
Although I am not too sure if DHH will play well with Bryan.
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Hey, nice resources, man! Thank you. No worries that you can't decide on the amounts, it's OK :)
My employer takes cost of living into account by multiplying your salary by the numbeo factor for where you live. Base salaries are all calculated for Cologne (HO) and then adjusted by the relative cost of living factor for your locale. (we're entirely remote)
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My employer takes cost of living into account by multiplying your salary by the numbeo factor for where you live. Base salaries are all calculated for Cologne (HO) and then adjusted by the relative cost of living factor for your locale. (we're entirely remote)
What happens if you move to Hawaii mid way through your tenure?
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Even more galling about that 20-30%: it is really, really hard to measure. Believe it or not, you can't measure the draw even in fans in a traditional rack-and-stack server enclosure (that is, they are either not on their own voltage regulators or not regulators that have PMBus support, or the PMBus support is not plumbed through the BMC -- or all of these). And these aren't the only fans! In a traditional rack-and-s…
I worked on designing computerized machinery in the past, and having sensors for as much stuff as possible just seemed like a good idea. We had quite a few current sensors for various components. Then we could do stuff like log in to the unit remotely when a customer had an issue, and diagnose based on if something was using too much current or zero current, and that beats having to send out a technician to go poke a…
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Dell's VxRail has been very popular and successful. Not perfect, but pretty good, and I think the market leader. HPE Simplivity has done well. Also, Nutanix.
VxRail's the market leader? Last I touched it, it was a mountain of integration faults and vendors pointing fingers at each other. Maybe it's easier in larger or more traditional environments, but I'd be apprehensive of hyperconvered if VxRail's the best available
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Dell's VxRail has been very popular and successful. Not perfect, but pretty good, and I think the market leader. HPE Simplivity has done well. Also, Nutanix.
These seem to solve the ‘host your own cloud’ problem, but are still standard server blades requiring a ton of surrounding hardware and maintenance. Oxide is entirely integrated.
Oxide is entirely integrated with their own custom (though based on OSS?) networking via Tofino based switches and software. Could be good, but a lot of subtle bugs can occur at this layer. It's a risk.
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What happens if you move to Hawaii mid way through your tenure?
Then your salary is recalculated - it's something which is explained by default during the interview process (as it invariably comes up)
I always had a feeling that Bryan and people around kinda took the tech first approach and it never really came to a proper fruition. I think the ambition behind the engineering marvels they did over time was certainly bigger. Dtrace, Fishworks, Joyent, then this... so why is that? Perhaps the fierce refusal of joining the mainstream side (Linux)? Fingers crossed, but...
All of that said: thank you for keeping your fingers crossed. ;)