My first job was building out the first mega-datacenters.
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@thomasjwebb I've been meaning to write a blogpost for a long time. Sounds like it's time to write it!
Please do!
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My first job was building out the first mega-datacenters. 2005-2007, I was a datacenter assistant monkey working from Google working somewhere in the Chicago suburbs, swapping out hard drives and ram and writing shell scripts, as myself and my friends unknowingly laid down the prototype for the kinds of datacenters we all see today.
And so it is with some significant expertise that I say:
Fuck datacenters. Datacenters are an anti-pattern.
there is this character/mask of turin, part of the commedy of art, name is gianduia (which is also as gianduiotto a typical candy) ...
he is famous for hiding money in somebody elses pockets ...
i think of it every time i hear the word cloud ...
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@cwebber that's an interesting point of view. I mean, of course the current datacenter craze is complete madness, but it seems you consider an anti-pattern the concept of datacenter itself. Why is it so? What do you suggest as an alternate solution to the problems data centers try to solve?
@farfalk@toot.community @cwebber@social.coopWhat do you suggest as an alternate solution to the problems data centers try to solve?
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