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tt24 2 days ago

This is great, your suggestion to replace s3 and ddb is to run some VMs?

I don’t blame people for being skeptical

filleduchaos 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Projects like Ceph and Minio have existed for years, though?

Beyond that, I just don't understand your point of view at all. Do people unironically think there is some super special dark magic being done in the bowels of Amazon, as opposed to just...code that runs on (virtual and physical) machines? The open source community yielded Linux but it's just sooo impossible for it to yield an object storage service? What a strangely shackled view of the world.

rcbdev 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is great, your suggestion to replace our sovereignly hosted VMs is to run containers in the U.S.A.?

I don't blame people for being skeptical

tt24 2 days ago | parent [-]

When sovergienty comes at the expense of availability the latter will usually win over the former.

ApolloFortyNine 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yea, op just handwaved away all scalability. Guessing their response would be 'launch more vms'.

actionfromafar 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Scalability is great, when you need it. Most companies don’t need it.

izacus 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

VMs scale just fine.

hermanzegerman 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Why does the Dutch Central Bank need scalability?

lelanthran 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> This is great, your suggestion to replace s3 and ddb is to run some VMs?

Well... yes?

What do you think the AWS S3 and DDB is running on? Fairy dust?

tt24 2 days ago | parent [-]

No it’s using an army of extremely well paid engineers, something I guarantee the parent comment has no access to

lelanthran 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> No it’s using an army of extremely well paid engineers, something I guarantee the parent comment has no access to

That's a different argument to the one I replied to, and the reply to "they have expensive infra people" is "you have to have expensive product-trained people to use them anyway".

tt24 2 days ago | parent [-]

It’s not really a different argument

The suggestion was to replace DBB and S3 with some VMs. Presumably those VMs would be managed by the engineers part of the parent commenter’s organization. They do not have access to as many engineers as AWS, nor do they pay them as well.

Not arguing about cost effectiveness here. Just pointing out how silly it is to suggest that you can replace DDB/S3 with some VMs ran by a midsize organization

izacus 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's probably 5 juniors fighting fires in reality and not giving a crap for your service. :P