Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2...
by crucialfelix on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:40AM
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Also important: turning over a finished project to a client who just wants to run the workload and doesn't want to hire full time sysadmins.
Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2...
by pepemon on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:21AM
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Noisy neighbors tracking can be automated and partially solved then. With cloud you gain access to the provisioning API and with Terraform/Ansible stack (as for example) you are able to build up and manage infra quickly, efficiently and declaratively. Bare metal provisioning can also be automated (as via private cloud solution, for example) but you need dedicated team for that (and nice OpenStackers aren't cheap). I was solo managing 500+ hosts once on public cloud, there is no chance you can do this without what you call "hipster tech" and modern devops toolchain.
Of course, cloud is overpriced, slow, and suffers from noisy neighbors. And keeping things running in the cloud is about the same amount of work as keeping it running on bare-metal. But for customer-visible things, I want to use cloud so that someone else has to get up in the middle of the night when apache crashes.
Sleeping peacefully makes it worth for me to pay $5,000 monthly to Heroku when 2-3x $100 bare metal servers would do. Plus I can cheaply insure against supplier negligence, whereas insuring against employee negligence would be much more expensive.