coolkil

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by coolkil 2y ago
Awesome!! Hope to see more companies go this route. I had the pleasure to do something similar for a company(lot smaller scale though) It was my first job out of university. I will never forget the awesome experience of walking into the dat
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by coolkil 2y ago
Or ask my colleague who is zos sysprog to run it on our own ;) Or just run on zlinux
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by coolkil 2y ago
Lol, big question is would it work on zOS as well.
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by coolkil 2y ago
Firstly I never knew Loc records existed… interesting to read something like this. Secondly I think cloudflare will see an (sizable???) increase in Loc records due to this article
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by coolkil 2y ago
Shame it is running ms sql. anything Postgress, oracle or db2 and it might have been a candidate for running on a IBM Linuxone might even be a valid contender for the cost it is currently running at.
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by coolkil 3y ago
Only for Linux guests. It is also possible to run kvm
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by coolkil 3y ago
I also think most cloud providers are at least a vendor lock-in and maybe a proprietary nightmare. This way you at least got your own iron and ibm comes to fix parts when they break. (Without disabling your system) I do agree it is debatabl
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by coolkil 3y ago
I worked on multiple LinuxOne systems. You can run z/vm and pr/sm. it will also run kvm if you like. Power consumption (of our box z13 based)is 3kwh regardless of configuration (give or take) but also consider you need a lot less
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by coolkil 7y ago
Could be interesting. Some kind of opensource zOS parallel sysplex or zVM single system image. Shame that the last update was done in 2010. Any other known alternatives?
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by coolkil 7y ago
You use it in an environment where you need an extreme level of data integrity and availability. Think banks, airports, government, etc. Due to io offloading to co-processors and a whole range of supporting cpu types you can set up a system
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by coolkil 7y ago
Most commonly z/OS, z/VM as a hypervisor or just native Linux(rhel, sles, Ubuntu or Debian) Depending on what model of mainframe you got you can use up to 60 logical partitions which are firmware level virtual machines. and can ex
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by coolkil 9y ago
I see dev-ops as a way a company has shaped its delivery process. This means a devops profession does not exist. In short it means that a developer has direct contact with an operator and tester or viceversa. Dev-ops focusses on short direc