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How Kubernetes halved our cloud spend, saved $3.9M/yr
AWS

How Kubernetes halved our cloud spend, saved $3.9M/yr

We were burning about $6M/yr across AWS, Azure and GCP. We immediately cut this spend in half by repatriating workloads into a new Kubernetes-based private cloud, then saved even more as the private cloud grew.

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Neil Carson Jan 8, 2025 • 7 min read
Taiwan: The kitchen making tasty chips
Business

Taiwan: The kitchen making tasty chips

China will only reclaim Taiwan by force if their leader goes mad. Sometimes that happens to lifelong leaders and dictators (sometimes I worry about my own sanity).

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Neil Carson Jul 20, 2023 • 6 min read
Why we don't want just hardcore programmers anymore
Engineering

Why we don't want just hardcore programmers anymore

Today's software developer can't just have an interest in the machine, like what fascinated me when I grew up programming. He or she must be interested in understanding and solving actual problems for people and businesses, and be able to join the dots back to the underlying technology.

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Neil Carson Feb 3, 2023 • 5 min read
Opinionated musings on data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, SQL Engines
Yellowbrick

Opinionated musings on data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, SQL Engines

SQL engines aren't data warehouses. SQL tech is a fashion. In-memory analytics makes no sense. Data lakehouses aren't data warehouses. Neither was Hadoop.

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Neil Carson Jan 13, 2022 • 6 min read
Improving S3 performance from C++
Yellowbrick

Improving S3 performance from C++

How do we maximise S3 random IOPS throughput at different block sizes and queue depths?

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Neil Carson Nov 24, 2021 • 5 min read
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