For a second....
I misread the first line as "The fall of systemd is here" but alas, not today it seems...
Posts by Wowbagger42
7 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jan 2018
Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process
Graph databases to map AI in massive exercise in meta-understanding
There are DDoS attacks, then there's this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught
Windows Subsystem for Linux distro gets a preening, updated version waddles into Microsoft's app store
AWS will be the last big cloud to add Skylake as Azure turns 'em on
Tuesday 18th September 2018 23:40 GMT
Re: >Microsoft has announced its first Azure instances running Intel's Skylake silicon
Prostetnic TheVogon is right. Whenever our on-prem customers request provisioning & sizing parameters we start by asking what type of CPU they're currently running because that will impact significantly the response time you will get (we sell calculation intensive based software) and in 75% of the cases the customers has no idea. Most never really pay attention to the base freq / turbo freq / L2 cache etc and say something like "we've got 16 core CPU's" and think that by adding lots of vCPU's to a virtual server it will perform better while in fact it's really easy to waste 30-40% of overall CPU time just by over allocating vCPU's.
So yes, it really matters what type of CPU you are using for what type of workload.
The developers vs enterprise architects showdown: You shall know us by our trail of diagrams
Tuesday 2nd January 2018 08:48 GMT
Oh dEAr
When having a meeting with EA's my first question is always "have you ever worked or finished a project with xyz before?" followed by "do you wanna go tech deep or do you just want to go over some diagrams you made?".
Gets 'em tiptoe'ing instantly and you can seperate the idiots from the real EA's pretty quick.
It's always a pleasure to work with experts but since some years the EA field has been invaded with vendor-trained shills or pretty clueless body shopped PFY's. A real EA with proven trackrecord is hard to find, like one that figures out 443 is probably https... and working as a dev(/ops) with expert EA's there is never any friction but only cooperation towards a mutual goal.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
