Cloud
GCP's somewhat limited move to drop "cloud switching" charges is aimed squarely at Microsoft.
“We have our low latency stream which goes into MongoDB; we have our main engineering pipeline, which goes to S3 and gets encrypted for GDPR purposes. Then we have a Spark stream, which pulls the data into Delta Lake..."
Cloud migration "impairment" writes off the equivalent to 81% of the Post Office's annual restructuring costs.
Warns users it will terminate affected tasks, but leaves a lacuna... (Fear not, we're here with details)
"A requirement to bring unmanaged and unsupported ICS devices under proper governance and control..."
“If Oracle Database just disappeared at companies, the whole planet would come to a standstill”
"If spot instances weren’t available, we had no way to tell Cluster Autoscaler to fall back to on-demand Instances, and we ended up stuck in a few loops…" others note.
Hammer down those AWS bills, chisel away at that scheduling latency; pick a carpentry tool, pick your clumsy metaphor...
Home Office CTO has highlighted a focus on “streamlining our technology and data estates and unifying systems” and “open source and cloud technologies that are scalable and maintainable.”