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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud by foobarbazetc on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:28PM (#15926644)
Yeah. The exact same thing happened at Evernote. They hit a sales slump, new “corporate” management, cuts etc -> GCP.

The Ops people there were pretty proud of their infrastructure, but they took it to a pretty extreme level. I think they were racking their own stuff and even running their own routers etc.

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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud by lykr0n on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:50PM (#15926900)
Racking your own servers and running your own routers is extreme? I don't know about you, but I haven't set foot in the DC in two years after initial setup.
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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud by foobarbazetc on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:25AM (#15930004)
Yeah I meant to put it in quotes. :) Hard to find B2C type SaaS companies doing that though (with the exception of Pinboard, who’s crazy :)

We actually haven’t had a hardware failure (apart from HDD that have all been replaced with SSD) in something like 7 years.

We don’t even pay big bucks for Dell, HP etc. Just cheap SuperMicro boxes.

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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud by amigoingtodie on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:51AM (#15930101)
What does your hardware and software stack look like?
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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud by bogomipz on Thursday December 14, 2017 @05:47PM (#15927991)
>" I think they were racking their own stuff and even running their own routers etc."

There is nothing "extreme" about any of that.

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