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Why we ask where your data lives
It sounds like a simple question. The answer usually involves a database, object storage, backups, logs, notifications and a search index.
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Notes from the work.
Occasional posts about how this is actually done. No announcements, no industry news, nothing written to rank for a search term.
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The cloud is somebody else’s computer — and that is sometimes exactly what you want
Technically true and practically incomplete. The useful part is precisely that somebody else owns a great deal of difficult infrastructure.
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Why we run the machines ourselves
Reselling someone else’s capacity is cheaper to start and worse to answer questions about. Here is what running the machines ourselves actually changes.
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What actually happens when a server dies?
Good infrastructure is not designed to stop servers failing. It is designed around what happens next.
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How much server do you actually need?
Shared, virtual, dedicated, private cloud. The list looks like small, medium, large and enormous. That is not what separates them.
Tell us what you are trying to run.
Describe the workload or the system you have in mind and we will tell you what it needs, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it.