zsmith928

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by zsmith928 9y ago
awesome stuff! Great to see AWS pushing things around the baremetal problem set.
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by zsmith928 10y ago
we managed to get more online -- please go ahead and try again!
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by zsmith928 10y ago
Yes, we are considering a Type 0 ARM server, but we are still working through the proper design to enable full Armv8 (vs v7).
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by zsmith928 10y ago
FYI I'm from Packet. Agreed reliability is important (I'll let others comment on our own record) but I'd say there is significant workload via spot market, batch processing, etc that doesn't need uptime and is intereste
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by zsmith928 10y ago
are there any performance metrics for Tarus yet?
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by zsmith928 10y ago
what is the existing alternative for storage in distributed container environments?
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by zsmith928 10y ago
So $0.05/hr is pretty cheap, but agreed free trial is better. We made a little page with $25 on it if you'd like to try it out! https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/
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by zsmith928 10y ago
Howdy - Zac here from Packet. The clients of ours that leverage the by-the-hour model generally use the same devops tools (Terraform, Docker Machine, Ansible, etc) against our API to provision and orchestrate bare metal that they would agai
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by zsmith928 11y ago
such an interesting thread, thanks for bringing this up! At Packet, we've been working to support CoreOS and their Distributed Trusted Computing ( https://tectonic.com/trusted-computing/ ) for our on-demand bare met
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by zsmith928 11y ago
I've met Rishi @ Tiingo a few times and the fact of the matter is he is super passionate about liberating financial data and tools. I think that his pricing model and generosity are truly born from his genuine interest and love of the
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by zsmith928 11y ago
awesome read, can't wait to see your results on performance, etc.
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by zsmith928 12y ago
@AndyNemmity I totally agree - the Ironic guys (particularly jroll) are awesome and were very helpful.
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by zsmith928 12y ago
Great read and really does an awesome job showing not only the tech of what NSOne has built, but the 'why' behind the 'how'. DNS is such a deceptively simplistic service, but I think that's only due to the lack of