Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by grumpydba on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:36AM (#19061904)

Windows operating systems are just a gigantic bloated and underperforming mess.

Server 2019 is no exception.

At the company I work for IT ops deliver VMs as a service. The windows ones have huge disk footprint and take at least 3 times as long to deliver. Moreover dsc is not featureful enough compared with ansible. So it's also a pain to script/automate for. The failure rate is higher. And let's not forget the need to put antivirus on them.

Lots and lots of reasons to escape from that platform, I could go on for a while.

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by pjmlp on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:13AM (#19062214)

Unless you are deploying Solaris into production, how are those kernels handling asynchronous loads.

Still plain old select(), poll() and AIO?

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by grumpydba on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:43AM (#19062705)

Yes, and they are plenty fast. The API could be more elegant, but it works fine. Mysql for example uses io_submit. So do oracle, sybase. It's just a matter of developer comfort. They work around it for us. Deployment-wise, linux runs circles around windows.

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by pjmlp on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:28AM (#19062873)

Having worked in several Java/.NET shops not everyone on our IT would agree with that, specially how easy it is to manage cluster deployments with AD.

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