* Posts by Kauppe

5 publicly visible posts • joined 20 May 2013

Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue

Kauppe

> 37Signals insists; a large team spent a lot of time doing the smartest deals they could.

I hope this large team was doing other work as well... as they aren't cost-free are they.

Often these problems with cloud cone down to "lifting and shifting" an on-prem (or colo) solution directly into apparently corresponding/equivalent AWS services. But that's not taking advantage of the modern cloud (although it's all you could do 10 to 15 years ago) in all its automated, serverless (sic) glory. For me a bit of a warning sign is when someone's cloud revolves around some unwieldy k8s setup for example.

Cloud isn't going to be for everyone I suppose, but when it's done right it's amazing value for money. You've got to have quite a different mindset about it. Not "what if we put this server on EC2, can we save some £?", but rather, "what is the business need that this server meets, is the process what we need today, and can we model a better process around microservices?"

A great advantage of cloud-done-well is that you can reshape your systems around changing business needs (including unexpected ones) much faster than investing in tin and buildings. That is, so long as you didn't just build a copy of your racks in k8s and stick that on AWS.

To take a slight issue with this article's main analogy, you don't really need to be a brilliant forecaster, because taking advantage of cloud means you can (or should be able to) respond to changing weather very rapidly.

Come to Five Guys, where the software is as fresh as the burgers... or maybe not

Kauppe

It is called

Apophasis

No more jaw-jaw, as PRS sues SoundCloud over music streaming

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Headmaster

products musicians offer, such as gigs or merchandising

You are confusing performers and writers. The PRS exists to protect writers; writers join and assign certain rights to the PRS in exchange for having royalties collected and paid out (less a small fee). Singer-songwriters aside, most writers don't put on these supposedly lucrative gigs of which you speak. Indeed, all a writer would see from a gig is their royalty, paid by the venue (who in turn usually deduct it from the performer's box office), and collected (natch) by the PRS.

Optical Express 'ruined my life' attack site wins Nominet takedown battle

Kauppe

Re: I married an eye surgeon

Yes, it happened in 1996 to a mountaineer named Beck Weathers.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Weathers