msolson

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   by msolson 2y ago

   Ah yes. Instance store root volumes are what we originally launched EC2 with--EBS came along 2 years later, but as data volumes only at first, with boot from EBS I think a year after that. There's a lot less fragility, and really it&#x
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   by msolson 2y ago

   At least in the organizations I'm a part of this isn't true. We do look for both specialists and generalists, and focus on experience and how it could apply. It's difficult to innovate by just repeating what's been done
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   by msolson 2y ago

   Instance storage can be a good option depending on your workload, but definitely has limitations. There's huge value in separating the lifecycle of storage from compute, and EBS provides higher durability than instance storage as well.
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   by msolson 2y ago

   A picture can be worth way more than a thousand words, but sometimes you have to iterate through a thousand pictures to find the one that tells the right story, or helps you ask the right question!
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   by msolson 2y ago

   Thanks for the comment, and you're right, modern computers do have a much better architecture! As I was laying out the story I was thinking about what it looked like when we started. I'll clarify that in the image caption that it&