Posts by John Slater

Eviden/Evidian

"called Evidian (initially it was branded Eviden)" - it's the other way round. See eviden.com for, errm, evidence

"Controlling and reducing Kubernetes costs is not inherently different from managing other kinds of IT costs, but the abstraction it offers perhaps makes it easier to miss the detail of the resources consumed. There is also the challenge of scaling appropriately to the demand, with over-provisioning all too easy."

This misses the point completely. Kubernetes offers auto-scaling in response to demand, and is part of the solution here not the problem. Once a cost model per unit of business value is established, the challenge of cost forecasting moves from IT to the business, where it belongs.

hyperdiverged infrastructure?

Love that logo. The binary translates to "FinCEN"

Roses are red,

Headphones are wired.

This has no socket,

So it won't be acquired.

Does Office 365 go down for 24 hours every February 29th?

Resale value

I've been a happy user of a used Oneplus 3 for the last 10 months. However, the battery life started to go. And Oneplus won't sell consumers a genuine battery.

So I looked at buying a used Oneplus 5 or 5T on swappa.com (my site of choice for this sort of thing). But the prices were not that much less than a brand new Oneplus 6, so that's what I ended up receiving last weekend.

This week's lesson learned: unlike with cars, it appears to make sense to buy newer phones and sell them after a year or two. The used Oneplus 3 I bought last summer for $290 should net me north of $200 when I sell it next week. And the 6 I have now will probably sell for only $150 or so less than I paid for it when I replace it with a 7 or an 8 in a year or two. Net cost of about $100/year for latest tech with a fresh battery is hard to beat.