G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up

Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by throwaway011101 on Sunday August 28, 2016 @12:43AM (#12375338)

Worked on a software project built on top of Predix. It was like building software on quicksand how often predix and cloudfoundry would fail.

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by jacques_chester on Sunday August 28, 2016 @09:44AM (#12376465)

Does Predix track cf-release, to your knowledge?

We track it on PWS, meaning we're upgrading the whole platform live every week or two. So I'm surprised it's unstable for you.

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by throwaway011101 on Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:25PM (#12378347)

It might have been how shittilly our app was built and everyone I talked to was just shifting blame to the the Predix/CF team.

But, correct me if I'm wrong,...isn't predix and cloudfoundry all hosted on top of AWS instances at the moment?

All of our URLs were AWS urls. It was funny.

We were hosting on top of our competition.

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by devonkim on Sunday August 28, 2016 @07:50PM (#12379126)

Predix POCs were on AWS but have migrated primarily to internal datacenters after customers expressed little interest in running applications using Predix on AWS. Not sure if this is poor foresight by the Predix team or an unexpected change in customer sentiment.

I'd be surprised if anyone outside Silicon Valley in GE's LOBs wanted to consider AWS for production considering how many have likely invested greatly into their own datacenters as well as the general trends of non-technology companies to fear an external cloud first instinctively regardless of how poorly managed their internal IT is. This puts GE in a poor position potentially in that even if they create a great platform that their customers that are perhaps even more technology phobic will need to invest money as well into areas they historically have failed to generate much ROI from. But perhaps GE's dominance / position can help them here and these concerns are long addressed.

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by jacques_chester on Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:29PM (#12378370)

I can't speak for where Predix is hosted.

PWS is on AWS. But Cloud Foundry itself can be mounted on AWS, OpenStack, Azure, GPC is coming and others I've forgotten.

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by predix_worker on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:43AM (#12380054)

There are two.. AWS and hosted in virgina.. AWS is FAR better then hosted.. the hosted predix is 90% of the issues

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by twic on Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:34AM (#12376244)

What was the failure mode for Cloud Foundry? Going down completely, rejecting commands, etc?

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by throwaway011101 on Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:22PM (#12378334)

It was my experience it was just "Bye Felicia"

BUT it might have been how our app was coded we weren't taking advantage of some sort of built in failure hooks or something.

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by predix_worker on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:45AM (#12380061)

80% of the issues are caused by our shit infrastructure running on VMware.

CF is a pile of shit anyway. Its overly bloated and its hard to support and deal with

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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by predix_worker on Sunday August 28, 2016 @03:17AM (#12375635)

the running joke in the San Ramon office is if GE moved the building 20 minutes away.. 80% of the company would quit because their commute was too long

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