Posts by Convinient bug

Analytics are better with shared storage and not scale-out, says IBM

Re-inventing a need for centralized storage - all over again

AFAIK, the whole point of HDFS was to be distributed, redundant, fault tolerant and working with cheap drives that fail. Now they're trying to convince us to go back to SAN? I don't think so. We already passed that river.

You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do

Re: Productivity != Profitability

I remember a guy who had a bug in his code, and customer's site was generating a lot of ( network ) traffic ( too much ), which they had to pay for, ofc ( by request or MB or something ). He couldn't fix it because the traffic would drop too quickly and it would be to obvious that in previous months, we were overcharging them. So he had to make a special ( time dependent ) function that would "slowly" reduce trafic ( over months ), but in a less visible way.