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Re: Live Journalling a Production Migration to Serverless

abnerg — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 19:51:06 -0000

Very cool. I love your decision matrix. Let me know if we can be of assistance at Stackery. We’ve worked with a few customers through refactoring and we make the rollbacks and environment management super easy.

On re-architecture:
https://www.stackery.io/blo...

Chipping away at the monolith, a Stackery customer journey (also part 1)
https://link.medium.com/0aS...

Re: I Already Miss Brian

abnerg — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:48:04 -0000

Thanks for writing this. For me, Brian was the guy you tried to sit next to at an analyst conference because he was full of adventure and always on the lookout for another. Paris, hang-gliding, parasailing, photography, and so much more. Chances were also good you would learn something about communication systems along the way. I too will miss him dearly.

Re: Takeaways From the ServerlessConf 2017

abnerg — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:08:00 -0000

Great writeup. Now I'm even sadder I missed this event.

On the monitoring and debugging front, this is an area we have been working on for a bit at New Relic and we definitely want more feedback and input into what's needed. This post on combining AWS Cloudwatch and X-Ray trace data from Lambda explores some of our more recent findings on performance and what drives cost. https://blog.newrelic.com/2...

Re: Why Firewalls Won’t Matter In A Few Years

abnerg — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:08:07 -0000

Re: #4 - Alex assumes exactly the opposite. I inferred his point to be firewalls can't scale to meet the realities of a modern browser based or mobile app... especially since writing secure javascript and the backend infrastructure around it is super hard. This means securing these apps (L4+) needs to part of the development process and toolset and not (just) an extra layer in the form of a physical or virtual firewall.

Re: Monitoring Survey - Demographics

abnerg — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:51:32 -0000

When people sign up for New Relic, we let them choose DevOps as a role along with a few other roles that roughly match your question. While I agree with John that DevOps is not a role, when we offer it in a survey it seems like those who choose it do so out of a desire to signal they are not "old school ops" (another crappy term). It's also interesting that your data indicates the role was chosen across multiple company sizes. We see the same in our data.

Re: Vail Resorts buys Park City Mountain Resort

abnerg — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:45:51 -0000

Epic pass is nice, but PCMR had family friendly youth season passes. Epic youth passes are 2x the price. Those Sochi golds came from somewhere.

Over the next few years, I expect to look forward to a new Motherload lift and to mourn solitary hikes and runs down Pinecone ridge.

edit: punctuation

Re: China Product Counterfeiting: Using UDRP To Shut Down The Website

abnerg — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:46:07 -0000

This looks like a good option for companies dealing with counterfeit physical goods. Any thoughts on counterfeit web services where the offending site has copied a service, but not a domain name?

Re: The Enterprise Mobility Problem

abnerg — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:25:44 -0000

YES. To put this another way: If your mobile strategy is BYOD, you are only playing defense and cost reduction at best. If your mobile strategy is to figure out how to upend your relationships and capabilities, then you are onto something.

Re: In mobile, everything is still wide open

abnerg — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:56:26 -0000

Go look at the work done by Austin Hill and co. Public identities always have several attributes that shouldn't be shared everywhere and are dependent on who the actors on the identity might be. I've been tracking this problem since ~'98 or so and the only consistency are people who wrongly think they've solved it.

Re: Apple Retires Snow Leopard Support, Leaves 1 In 5 Macs In The Dust - by Lauren Orsini

abnerg — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:31:10 -0000

Perhaps if managing videos, large files, and back-ups in iPhoto wasn't so brutal, it would be easier to have the hard disk space to upgrade. I just bought a new hard drive for a 2010 macbook pro that is a pre-curser to upgrading. Nice to hear from others that 10.6 doesn't suffer from the vulnerability. One would think that would be in the release notes somewhere.

Re: Cisco's SDN defense takes a hit

abnerg — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:21:42 -0000

Agree that a broader dissemination and details in the Deutsche Bank paper are needed. After spending a good chunk of Tuesday at the OpenCompute event in San Jose, I'll say that the interest in OpenCompute networking extends far beyond Facebook. It is also fair to assume that the business models and pricing of network software hasn't changed for many years. Change is most certainly coming.

Re: Musing: VMware Pays More for AirWatch for VDI than Nicira for SDN

abnerg — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:52:40 -0000

Agree. Half a snapchat doesn't buy what it used to. Also consider that while the post acquisition investments for integrating both of these are significant, Nicira is likely to be larger in the long run given the need to go out and make a new market.

Re: Benedict Evans

abnerg — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:09:28 -0000

Solid move. Welcome to the valley!

Re: Cisco/Insieme ushering in hardware-defined networks

abnerg — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:10:07 -0000

Both actually. From an ops view, network automation today is where sys admins were 5 years ago. The big difference is that the most broadly deployed operating systems in enterprise data center networks force automation through screen scraping. Junos doesn't do that, which is one of the reasons we've been so aggressive with native support for Puppet and other IT automation tools.

Network virtualization and IT automation get you DevOps agility. Fabrics get you app performance.

Re: Cisco/Insieme ushering in hardware-defined networks

abnerg — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:22:44 -0000

"the dynamic nature of applications has changed the paradigm, rendering many old practices redundant." THIS all day long.

That said, with 65 to 70% marketshare in DC networks, that overly complex environment is mostly Cisco inflicted. Network architectures in the DC failed to evolve with apps from client-server to the distributed apps of today. DC architects now have SDNs to logically match to distributed apps and various fabrics to physically get apps to perform.

Re: The Biggest Myth About Talking To Your Customers

abnerg — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:07:56 -0000

Cool.

Re: The Biggest Myth About Talking To Your Customers

abnerg — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:07:19 -0000

Not sure what the overlap is with the ReWired Group, but the "Jobs to Be Done" concept is discussed deeply in Clay Christiansen's writings. I completely agree that understanding that concept is critical for all marketing prefessionals.

Re: (via Dyn Research: Where Do Companies Host Their... - Abner's Net Net

abnerg — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:42:05 -0000

Now that IBM is officially acquiring Softlayer, it should be noted that this chart tracks DNS resolution, thus it is a direction indicator of where the server is, not an absolute locator - which is why Cloudflare shows up.

Re: Cruft

abnerg — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:35:24 -0000

My condolences. I love that tribute pic.

Re: This is why big data is the sweet spot for SaaS … and here are 5 reasons why it is Not

abnerg — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:34:52 -0000

You are assuming that the majority of the data relationships I want to test are contained in my own data. In certain areas this is not the case. The balance of whether the bulk of the data is mine or from elsewhere will dictate whether SaaS works or not for a Big Data application.

Re: Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore

abnerg — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:22:40 -0000

I'm impressed you made it this far. I still feel ill about sunsetting the service we built that pales in comparison to what you built. My condolences. All the best in your next adventure.

Re: Seeing Both Sides: Dave McClure Misses An Additional VC Trend...Outside Silicon Valley

abnerg — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:59:01 -0000

Also this is the role that the Private Equity folks used to/want to play in. They have often been relegated to turn-around situations, but it seems these mega funds have a very different role to play than the role the two of you play. I agree the sustainability of that model feels suspect:
http://abnerg.tumblr.com/po...

Re: Apple devices only? That's not BYOD

abnerg — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:33:43 -0000

Just to be clear there is a difference between getting full support for all apps and can I use X device for certain applications with a minimal level of service. I work at Juniper and for a bunch of apps, I could use pretty much any device using secured via Juniper's Junos Pulse product. That user experience, however, is not always ideal or sometimes it's fine depending on the app/platform mix. Bask has made the decision to add Apple to enable full support (as in I can ask his team for help) so that my app experience on those platforms is great. It's not that I can't use Android, it's just the level of support I can expect to receive is less. It works. (Note: I'm just a user who works at Juniper and certainly not an official spokesperson for Bask or Juniper in this case)

Re: Corporate IT adoption visualized

abnerg — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:58:50 -0000

It's worth noting that Greg Ferro of Packet Pushers fame posed a counter argument.
http://etherealmind.com/res...

Re: Software Defined Networking Wakes Up: Analysis of VMware, Nicira, Oracle, Xsigo

abnerg — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:57:53 -0000

Generally agree with what you've written, but you lost me on the notion that since I/O virtualization makes SDN easier, you agree with the declaration that Xsigo is an SDN solution. Simplifying and virtualizing the network I/O (or the 8 other different ways you virtualize the netwok) all help make an SDN easier, but that doesn't make it an SDN - does it?