matthiasb

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by matthiasb 2y ago
There are a couple points that resonate with me. I strongly believe there is a need to provide transparency and accountability to cloud engineers. How many cloud enginners know the exact list of resources they own in all accounts and region
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by matthiasb 2y ago
It looks interesting. Is the Basti EC2 instance deployed in a private subnet? Do you have a high-level diagram?
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by matthiasb 2y ago
I am working on eliminating waste in cloud resources. Cloud providers made too easy to start resources. But unless there is a stringent upfront process (that usually defeats the purpose of using the cloud), it is hard to keep track of who o
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by matthiasb 2y ago
I am working on a cloud governance and remediation solution. Our first product was a CO2 monitor for your AWS infrastructure https://www.li10.com/ The next logical step is to provide tools to reduce it (along with cost redu
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by matthiasb 2y ago
yes, but it will give you a misleading number (close to 0 for any workload you run in US or EU). So it is useless.
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by matthiasb 2y ago
I totally agree with you! There are so many layers we could optimize, with various level of difficulty and return in term of cost and co2 reduction. Legacy tech stack are especially wasteful: HW + OS + App running 24/7 regardless if it
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by matthiasb 2y ago
Shameless plug: we built www.li10.com to help companies using AWS cloud measuring and reducing their cloud carbon footprint. To measure it, we use your detailed billing data and local kWh carbon intensity. To reduce it, we are offering a cl
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Experimenting with Diffusion Models(codebazaar.blogspot.com)
1 points by matthiasb 3y ago|0 comments
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Can AI replace Captcha click farms?(codebazaar.blogspot.com)
2 points by matthiasb 3y ago|1 comments
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by matthiasb 3y ago
Hi there! I'm Matt. Leader in cloud technologies, with a 17-year track record in both the US and EU. As a Senior Director of Cloud Solution Architecture at NTT DATA, I lead the development of AWS serverless, SaaS, big data, and ML appl
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by matthiasb 3y ago
Most cloud providers already claim being carbon neutral for EU and US regions. Unfortunately, there is a lot of waste there too, so there goes the little bit of green energy we have.
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by matthiasb 3y ago
What you are saying makes sense. If you are running other valuable apps, then it isn't a waste. I am curious though, how did you come to 1.75kg per user? I calculated 20.9kg / user / year. 250/1000/1000 kgCO₂eq&#x2F
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by matthiasb 3y ago
Turning a service on/off makes a lot of sense for this kind of application. I sincerely didn't post my comment to shame anymore. Need for computing is growing fast and it is actually not negligible at all. See the link below, data
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by matthiasb 3y ago
An idle server still consumes energy. Energy consumption increases with CPU load, RAM consumes the same regardless of the usage. When Google manages your pictures, they don't have idle servers for each users. This is the main reason th
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by matthiasb 3y ago
Where did you get the carbon you exhale? Food. If you go by that logic, you might as well stop eating. The CO2 we exhale does not contribute to climate change because it comes from plants (and indirectly animals) that captures it back. If y
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by matthiasb 3y ago
I used an AWS instance with similar specs as reference. What kind of low power servers are you referring too?
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by matthiasb 3y ago
Yes, I assumed 1 user per server. If a family shares the server, then you can divide by the number of family members. The link I shared has the details of the calculation. The calculation assumes 50% CPU load which is most likely too high f
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by matthiasb 3y ago
The recommended spec is 4 cores and 6GB. Running this 24/7 for a year in US where the carbon intensity is about 400 gCO₂eq/kWh would produce about 150kg of CO2 per user per year. I appreciate the intent of this project, but it is
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by matthiasb 4y ago
Your answer is spot on. This makes me think of Yoichi Kaya's formula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaya_identity It shows illustrates the dependency between GDP, population, energy and emissions. Assuming we don&
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by matthiasb 7y ago
I agree both Hertz and Accenture share some responsibility here. I didn't mean to blame it all on Hertz. "They might have been better off building a team internally". For a business critical projects, building the team intern
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by matthiasb 7y ago
Here is my summary of the mistakes Hertz made: - hired the vendor based on a cool demo & vendor size - did not have a Hertz employee as Product Owner - tried to go big fast instead of taking an iterative approach - did not implement pro
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by matthiasb 8y ago
What was the best finding in your experience?
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Improve IT Operational Excellence with Game Days(blog.flux7.com)
18 points by matthiasb 8y ago|5 comments
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by matthiasb 9y ago
The best way I know to find new routes in my city is to join a local strava club and see where others are running. If I travel, I rely on the Segment Explorer but I agree it is not perfect.
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Encrypt Your MSSQL Database with TDE and SafeNet KeySecure, and Why(codebazaar.blogspot.com)
1 points by matthiasb 10y ago|0 comments
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by matthiasb 10y ago
Alaska Airline has great craft beer from Alaska if that helps ;-)
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by matthiasb 10y ago
I am curious to hear why the device you are looking for should be a compact and portable device. You listed it as your very first requirement so it must be a must-have.
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by matthiasb 10y ago
When you initialize your HSM, a key is created which is owned by you and stored in a smartcard/token. If you buy an identical HSM, you shoud need the token to restore keys into it.
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by matthiasb 10y ago
introduction: "we used a major vendor's HSM to protect our private keys" conclusion: "The whole industry is shit." You had a bad experience with one vendor, not with the industry.
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by matthiasb 10y ago
There was a thread yesterday where lots of people were complaining about HSMs ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13031155 ). I think this is an example where it would have helped to secure the private key in an HSM instea

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