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Comment by bcrosby95

10 hours ago

The way I usually prevent having to scale out to a bazillion systems is never getting more than 10 users.

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steve_adams_86  9 hours ago

I wonder why Cloudflare didn’t think of this

  • kevin_thibedeau  9 hours ago

    This is Broadcom's business model

    • gerdesj  7 hours ago

      Quite. I was a VMware fanboi (25+ years, man and boy)

      I still look after a few VMware estates and a lot of Proxmox ones (that used to run VMware).

      Hilariously, VMware is described as "enterprise class", which I can only conclude means MVP and a bit wanky.

      Today I repaired a Proxmox HA + Ceph node using boring old normal Linux skills and as it turns out I have 30 years of those. Part way through a remote v8 to 9 upgrade I think I lost comms due to using OpenvSwitch for networking and despite using tmux for the upgrade session. Anyway, the Proxmox ISO was useless for rescue but the classic systemrescuecd worked nicely and I could run dpkg in a chroot.

      VMware "used" Linux and never really gave back. I don't miss fixing vCentres and all the other nonsense that "Enterprise" wankery has foisted on me over the years.

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forgot-my-pw  8 hours ago

The art of premature optimizations

  • smolder  1 hour ago

    The art is in knowing how to write software that doesn't perform like shit without doing all the work of measuring and refining. If you can save $100k in hardware costs in a couple days by just knowing what you're doing, that optimization is not premature.