Why you cannot trust this model 101: because it's practitioners understand the value of the labor/product,
capitalize on the OSS ideal and then push it to the unsuspecting.
I don't know how many bait and switch
episodes from google I need to see but by 2008 I
was done with them -- for the first time.
Ad-nauseam.
If you boycotted and didn't use Google they would wither and die and stop being something to worry about: for immediate google specific free offerings that are sucker bait.
Also for self aggrandizing standards/inclusions and buying
the overt talent. But whatever. The HN community is full of dupes and buy ins, culture whores and fifth columnists. True belief in OSS died when everyone else took it and got rich.
You seem to be an absolute type of planner. I used to approach IT mgmt and provisioning that way some years ago before being confronted with the realities of small and large business. One size obviously does not fit all and
sometimes you take shortcuts..usually you pay for them later.
I agree with your cautions around supermicro resale but
the warranty support and build diligence are absolutely necessary for a small business. Having a good business relationship with a trusted provider of hardware that
always performs the first time is priceless.
You'll have to trust me that this examples hardware spec
and requirements are for a basic/base site.
You can thin the profile and increase the # of chassis, compromise on redundancy, etc...but experience has shown that this arrangement is most cost effective. Kinetic event
impact modeling system -w- RT data delivery -- that should answer your conjectures.
No large vendors used in this example - thinkmate or aberdeen supermicro re-brands for due diligence and warranty.
AWS is a feature factory and they are breaking their
own back. Today I had an issue where creating an AMI for an application feature set as a golden image (with a very modest price tag at t1.supersmall or whatever) does not scale into high end compute instances due to lack of support for ena. Never was the case before.
Rolled it back into KVM/QEMU in colo with a glue layer REST interface over virsh and will never look back.
Of course we don't use containers..they don't offer an overt benefit in HPC...and I don't think they ever will.
I think devops was defunct once the asphalt hit the hardpan.
Approaching 'generic' secure operational environments as programmable, iterable and contained is one of the great IT lies of the last 20 years.
God, I can empathize even if only at a much less prominent
vantage. The skills, will and effort involved are at a level far more than a 50+ can reasonably sustain into the early 70s (if that is the prospect).
I don't know. If this is really how software is written in large scale web service environments you will always have problems. It just seems like sh*t to me.
Create a user and env to run a one-off build + application. DJB cracks me up. He may have the right thing in mind but this type of prophylactic approach is no longer proof against anything.
I'm old school.
I look at containers as jails and all the work to isolate applications in containers as of indifferent value given a flat plane process scope with MAC and application resource controls in well designed applications.
That is I default to good design and testing rather than boilerplate orchestration and external control planes.
All containers have done (popularly) in my opinion is add complexity and insecurity to the OS environment and encouraged bad behavior in terms of software development and systems administration.
Kernighan is so nice to listen to compared to some of the the hot air balloons in software today. I use awk everywhere (and have for many years) and am deeply indebted to BK and AR for their work on and custody of that language.
I don't know how many bait and switch episodes from google I need to see but by 2008 I was done with them -- for the first time. Ad-nauseam.
If you boycotted and didn't use Google they would wither and die and stop being something to worry about: for immediate google specific free offerings that are sucker bait. Also for self aggrandizing standards/inclusions and buying the overt talent. But whatever. The HN community is full of dupes and buy ins, culture whores and fifth columnists. True belief in OSS died when everyone else took it and got rich.