Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS
by Melatonic on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:18PM
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That also just sounds like Uber had hired crap talent....
Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS
by GauntletWizard on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:49PM
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And crap management to lead them. Uber hired plenty of people smart enough to do better, but let the crap take the reins and management failed to lead on anything.
Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS
by humanwhosits on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @03:46PM
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and they had trouble moving workloads to the cloud because bringing up new capacity was a giant set of circular microservice dependencies
I'd like to remind everyone about Uber's experience: no EC2-like functionality until at least 2018, probably even now. Teams would negotiate with CTO for more machines. Uber's container-based solution didn't support persistent volumes for years. Uber's distributed database was based on friendfeed's design and was notoriously harder to use than DynamoDB or Cassandra. Uber's engineers couldn't provision Cassandra instances via API. They had to fill in a 10-pager to justify their use cases. Uber's on-rack router broke back in 2017 and the networking team didn't know about it because their dashboard was not properly set up and what the funk is eBPF? Uber tried but failed to build anything even closer to S3. Uber's HDFS cluster was grossly inefficient and expensive. That is, Uber's productivity sucked because they didn't have the out-of-box flexibility offered by cloud.