avifreedman

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by avifreedman 2y ago
Thanks! Like the human body the more you study the Internet the more amazing it is not that it sometimes breaks, but that it works at all. Especially for video/phone/etc. Glad the content was helpful, I have links to some of them
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by avifreedman 6y ago
As the others say in the comments, understand completely re: servers. And network. And some management overhead. I will write a blog post laying out our COGS at Kentik including all these factors, hope it'll wind up helpful.
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by avifreedman 6y ago
We're (Kentik) a SaaS company and one key to having a great public margin is buying and hosting servers. In our case, we use Equinix in the US and EU to host, with Juniper gear for routing/switching, and the customary transit, pe
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by avifreedman 6y ago
Unless that's capex for building, or includes server capex that they depreciate, that seems way high given Uber's scale. A pretty dense cabinet should only cost ~$1400/mo at wholesale (1MW+ rooms) rates, and $200M is 143,000
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by avifreedman 8y ago
Absolutely a believer in the power of single machine analytics on GB or TB vs PB datasets. But I've found that whether it's a new data system or just showing csv/tsv tool magic, if people aren't into data systems (for t
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by avifreedman 8y ago
Many of the alternates (including linux cli stuff) that are much faster require a re-thinking of attitude, don't work where there are tens to hundreds of people submitting queries, or require different skills. It's tragic to thin
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by avifreedman 8y ago
C5/C6 herniation about 10 years ago. Did the standard range of NSAIDS and PT. Useless and wound up needing prescription pain meds to get+stay asleep. Declined steriod injection because I wanted to debug. What fixed it (on first treat
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by avifreedman 8y ago
We do network analytics delivered as SaaS, selling to enterprise and service providers, but I'm happy to talk (for free, of course) about VCs and the funded life. I have felt like a cultural anthropologist in the land of VCs (mostly po
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by avifreedman 9y ago
Almost enough to make an old C hound not hate on Go all the time. (Full disclosure: Blake and I work for the same company)
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by avifreedman 9y ago
Have you checked whether any of your customers are connected to VCs? Enough of ours are that in our seed, A, and B diligence they found folks to talk about us that I didn't point them to. Re: selling vs raising, I would say it really
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by avifreedman 9y ago
At the late stage, investors usually want to see 3-10x vs 10-100x as a realistic range vs earlier stage (A round) investors. Usually they also look to there being a MUCH lower change of going completely to 0 - more like 10-20% vs well over
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by avifreedman 9y ago
If it's just the 2 of you, it might be easier for the company to buy back his shares at the issue price. Need to check with your lawyer, of course, re: valuation issues, but if it's just the 2 of you it may not matter, and future
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by avifreedman 9y ago
I used to be a Comcast wireless customer, but it cost much more than $45/mo, and was called Comcast Metrophone :)
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by avifreedman 10y ago
I read "typical worst-case pause time" in go and don't know whether to laugh or cry. We are seeing massively longer pauses in production and the suggestion is to go to 1.8, which is not ready. Reminds me of ruby - religious p
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by avifreedman 10y ago
Agree that bare metal is effective and doable at your scale, and can if done right give better SLA and much much much better control - especially of Internet-facing network performance than public cloud, or combos thereof). We are running a
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by avifreedman 10y ago
If you want to be local/in-office vs remote work: - Ping Jon Lehr @ the VC work-bench - Ping Kris Beevers at nsone, Zac Smith at packet, and other local CEOs who are hiring or know those who are Happy to connect you if you like - avi a
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by avifreedman 10y ago
Agreed - LeaseWeb, OVH, Hetzner, and even SoftLayer if you call and negotiate can all be great options and have been very stable for many folks for dedicated servers. Generally I recommend that people not make long term commits, as it give
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by avifreedman 10y ago
I think they can be pretty efficient and if a handle is kept on what's deployed on top, can be not that much overhead over the cost of the infra (whether it's owned or cloud). But that keeping a handle on things is key - starting
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by avifreedman 10y ago
Absolutely agree that collateral damage vs many small-mid-sized hosting providers is 0 in Amazon, though you do still have to deal with the normal 'noisy neighbor' problem by re-creating instances in a different neighborhood.
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by avifreedman 10y ago
They do manage those - though mainly for protecting themselves, not the point customer being attacked. In AWS the people I've talked to recently as well as historically say you'll get pretty uniformly rate-limited? vs. actually
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by avifreedman 10y ago
Yep, sorry if it didn't come through clearly enough. I was talking about (without trying to pick on any particular projects/vendors) infrastructure glue components - db, deployment/orchestration, storage, discovery, ... Maybe
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by avifreedman 10y ago
As to the specific advice, sorry you didn't think it was valuable. But re: it being a PR fluff piece - Nope... Not in this case, and I would bet against that being the case with First Round Review in general. I'd bet a reasonable
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by avifreedman 10y ago
I agree it's not something people are likely to hit int heir first year, but I do think some sensitivity to trade-offs at the beginning is good. Re: board dynamic - the interview was about things to watch for for people thinking they m
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by avifreedman 10y ago
PipelineDB can scale out to multiple nodes (for $).
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by avifreedman 10y ago
Sorry to keep being pedantic, but I think it's important to thinking about approaches to scalable and performant TSDBs, and I still disagree :) Your example re: Cassandra is a problem with a particular example of columnar based time se
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by avifreedman 10y ago
Great comparison, and I hope the state of the world keeps getting better for TSDBs so we don't need to build our own at some point - but I disagree re: ------------------------------------- Performing queries across billions of metrics
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by avifreedman 10y ago
We use SVB and luckily don't have this many transactions :) We once had a Bell Atlantic (that's Verizon now) phone bill delivered that took 1/3 of a UPS truck. 600 line hunt group that they broke so that instead of being a hu
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by avifreedman 10y ago
If you take outside investment to grow faster and are coming from a $300-500k+ job, you'll be getting less cash compensation for years unless you're in the VP Sales role or a senior seller. If you grow more slowly you can avoid mo
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by avifreedman 10y ago
Awesome! This was my goto magazine :) Much more code per issue than Byte, and easily modifiable games, which were great for learning. Thanks to the Archive for scanning! If there are any issues missing, I may have them and be able to help
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by avifreedman 10y ago
An old button said "Reading Usenet is like drinking from a firehose. Posting to Usenet is like shouting from a mountaintop. Archiving Usenet is like saving used toilet tissue." While there is truth to each claim, I'd also l

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