Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers

Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by marmaduke on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:48PM (#22005533)

as a one person platform team (bare metal cluster + hpc resources); this article while super impressive gave me a kind of anxiety attack. I can barely keep the fires out and geez, look how much better it could be. There's hope for some at least.

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Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by Aaronstotle on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:28PM (#22007006)

Being a one person team is tough, I wouldn't beat yourself up over that. Usually impossible to get heads down in a project while firefighting 90% of the time.

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Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by ckdarby on Friday January 10, 2020 @10:09AM (#22011432)

> Usually impossible to get heads down in a project while firefighting 90% of the time.

Put the phone away & magically there is time in the day. People have a lot more time than they're aware of but fill it by normally numbing out.

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Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by marmaduke on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:22PM (#22013415)

> put the software defined networking, software defined storage, kubernetes, docker, KVM, libvirt, Windows AD, FreeIPA, thousands of Python conda environments, annoying users, boss users, NFS shares, NFS servers which can't do v4.1, CIFS, iSCSI LUNs, ancient iDRAC, circuit breaker replacements for air conditioners, data migrations due to lack of quotas, quoats and ACLs over NFS on mixed domains, DNS A records, shot motherboard in high-density nodes, ........... & magically there is time in the day

fixed that for you

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Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by Pirate-of-SV on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:50PM (#22006268)

Don't be anxious!

Every company and team operate under different circumstances that might not be in their control. It's a company effort, not only engineering, to get in to a position where using public cloud or buy it of the shelf products is possible.

Having both skilled legal and sales + business colleagues is key but a luxury in these situations.

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Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by marmaduke on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:24PM (#22013441)

Thanks for the kind words! would love to use AWS or similar but we're runnign a clinical trial with human data so it's all on-premise stuff :)

I will keep an eye out for opportunities though..

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Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by siscia on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:42AM (#22010297)

I kinda work in hpc too!

Is there some place where we can exchange info and best practices?

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Re:Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by marmaduke on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:14PM (#22013275)

that's a good question. I've tried to pick up what I can from online communities like Spice, r/sysadmin, Linxu & CentOS forums, but the most important thing I've done is actually work on some of the Tier-0 systems (in Europe) where everything tends to be done really well, and then try to imitate that (with shoestring budget of course).

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