<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ike@blackskyresearch.net" target="_blank">ike@blackskyresearch.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey all,<br>
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So, a breath of fresh air:<br>
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Gitlabs, (revenue for Github), is apparently leaving the cloud for metal.<br>
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Their open-ish community input process is pretty cool, and their numbers and projections line up *exactly* with what I've presented before- (one order of magnitude cost savings over 3 years, with radically increased computing/network horsepower).<br>
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As if that isn’t cool enough, NYI is one of the two datacenters they are considering, (w00t!)<br>
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Their full breakdown and request for comments is here,<br>
<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/11/proposed-server-purchase-for-gitlab-com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://about.gitlab.com/2016/<wbr>12/11/proposed-server-<wbr>purchase-for-gitlab-com/</a><br>
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They posted a cost spreadsheet breakdown here,<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XG9VXdDxNd8ipgPlEr7Nb7Eg22twXPuzgDwsOhtdYKQ/edit#gid=894825456" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>spreadsheets/d/<wbr>1XG9VXdDxNd8ipgPlEr7Nb7Eg22twX<wbr>PuzgDwsOhtdYKQ/edit#gid=<wbr>894825456</a><br>
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And for the adventurous, a Hacker News thread,<br>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13153031" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/<wbr>item?id=13153031</a><br>
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Absolutely worth a read for those interested in the topic- even the comments, it's interesting to me to see so much good old marketing FUD being spouted by cloud fanboys. (Sounds just like Microsoft vs *NIX in the early 2000’s).<br>
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And regarding their actual spec, it’s pretty interesting too- straightforward, if not a bit too many bells and whistles going nuts with gear IMHO :) Even with the bells and whistles, their cost comes down to reasonable/sustainable levels- good stuff… After growing something as big as Gitlabs in AWS, I certainly guess they *deserve* to rock some bells and whistles.<br>
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Rocket-<br>
.ike<br>
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<a href="http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.nycbug.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/talk</a></blockquote></div><br>One thing I have noticed is that in the recent past, vendors and developers where quick to site the advantages of the cloud for the "cost of system admin". <br><br>However, cloud providers have began to target higher up the food chain. They are starting to produce software to replace vendor software. Suddenly the software vendors find themselves in a situation similar to the "the hangman". They were more or less complacent initially but now find themselves in the cross hairs. They shrink into smaller corners of work behind the logic of "cant amazon do that better then we can?"</div></div>