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Re: Lessons learned from a year of Elasticsearch in production

Aneel — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:03:25 -0000

Great post! We found moving from the field data cache to doc values was a huge benefit for us over the last year. https://signalfx.com/scalin...

Re: what aws is not - blog.aneelism -

Aneel — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:25:25 -0000

Thanks! That was a good read.

Re: technology analyst 101 for startups - why - blog.aneelism -

Aneel — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:26:56 -0000

Thanks!

Re: The Depth of Amazon’s Ambition

Aneel — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:19:14 -0000

If you're Amazon-- that's their problem, not yours. So the same strategy applies.

Re: The Depth of Amazon’s Ambition

Aneel — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:58:14 -0000

How you behave towards the ecosystem is not quite the same as how your behave towards the competition. :)

AWS steadily cannibalizes it's ecosystem. Just fast enough to keep the moat between it and competitors big but slow enough not to starve the ecosystem of oxygen.

Kinesis is the first ostensible departure from that tactic. But I have my doubts as to whether it really is.

Re: The Depth of Amazon’s Ambition

Aneel — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:45:21 -0000

It's the "fundamentally dominate and own" part that I don't believe is the same and that makes the difference. If that's your goal, you aim to defeat others and become competitor-oriented in product. That is distinctly *not* how Amazon behaves. It's an expression of Bezos's personality as much Oracle is an expression of Ellison's.

Re: fvc - cumulus - blog.aneelism -

Aneel — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:08:59 -0000

I'd completely forgotten about them!

Re: fvc - metacloud - blog.aneelism -

Aneel — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:23:34 -0000

:) I really don't think it's OpenStack that is the thing with the potential--but rather the new operating model(s) for "systems of engagement". That's the wave OpenStack is riding, as much as so many co's are trying to ride the OpenStack wave.

Re: Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece

Aneel — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:00:10 -0000

Horizontal platforms, vertical products?

My world is all big enterprise. Specific "solutions" always win over general ones. But building specific solutions on a general platform is a way to create a diversified portfolio of revenue streams that's conceivably sustainable in the face of a lot of challenges (see what Palantir is doing).

Re: Fun Friday: Where Do You Get Your News?

Aneel — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:20:56 -0000

NPR's Morning Edition streamed in the AM and All Things Considered + APM's Marketplace streamed in the PM. Yes, radio. I like listening to the news while I churn through email.

Then throughout the day whatever comes through twitter (@econbizfinance, @theeconomist, @clusterstock, @mktplaceradio) and gothamist (via feed).

Re: v0dgeball Glory

Aneel — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:11:22 -0000

We. Shall. DOMINATE.

Re: What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)

Aneel — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:34:17 -0000

Thought: what if you had a non-prof co-funded by the city and VCs that went around to raise awareness with campus job centers, participated in official on-campus recruiting events, and ran awareness/recruiting events at all the schools putting out engineers where the startup scene in NYC is simply unknown?

Re: What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)

Aneel — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:45:07 -0000

RE 2) FWIW, there's a hell of a lot of web design talent in NYC that's locked up in advertising. Many of these folks don't know that startups are an option or that there's a ready market for their talent outside of the grind of agency work.

RE 3) Totally agree regarding the marketing problem. I got a CS degree upstate, didn't know there was a NYC startup scene, was subsequently brought to the city by IBM, and didn't even discover the startup scene until years later.

Re: Do I really have time for Google+ ?

Aneel — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:35:06 -0000

I'd ignore the content publishing aspect.. and focus on the huddle & hangout. I don't need another thing to publish too, either.

Re: Variety Cafe in Brooklyn

Aneel — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:25:06 -0000

I'm not nearly that cool. :-)

Re: Social Media's Secret Weapon - Email

Aneel — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:42:22 -0000

Email kinda serves as a makeshift Growl for socmed apps dealing with a distributed, mobile user base.

How many things will any one person be willing to tap on to check a notification of some kind? There seems to be a much smaller upper bound to that then to the actual number of apps that that same person may be willing to use. Based purely on friend circle anecdotal evidence.

Re: http://fredwilson.vc/post/4164466583

Aneel — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:04:38 -0000

You'd be surprised at how few companies there are that run and manage airports. Corporate decisions. Comfort only to a point.

Re: mulling qfabric

Aneel — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:01:42 -0000

Lookin' forward to it!

Re: http://irq.tumblr.com/post/2626072521

Aneel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:59:49 -0000

Actually, not so much.. I'm looking for things that're a little off the typical-beaten-path for a place like Cisco. :)

Re: Talent and Bandwidth

Aneel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:14:53 -0000

I graduated from RPI (2003) upstate (Troy), hellbent on coming down to NYC. IBM offered me the job and location. Like Benjamin, I didn't even know there was a vibrant startup-scene with jobs aplenty in NYC. The word certainly isn't getting out in the region, either.

Re: http://fredwilson.vc/post/2384265263

Aneel — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:07:52 -0000

Cairo's a blast. Have fun! A couple of restaurant suggestions, if you're looking: Sequoia at/on Zamalek and Nubian Village at the Grand Hyatt.

Re: http://fredwilson.vc/post/1350747306

Aneel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:22:59 -0000

Booooo! Love this place. Hope it's back soon.

Re: Network Design – Creativity and Compromise

Aneel — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:51:02 -0000

I don't think network design needs any significant amount of creativity, unless there are complex/odd/etc problems to be solved. The greater the said property of the problem, the greater creativity needed to solve it.

I've had the [un?]fortunate luck of having had to design my way out of very complex requirements challenges.. out of which I came to to a creativity methodology spectrum. At the larger networking technical services practices, there's a lot of methodology that institutionalizes lessons learned, ways to solve problems, questions to ask, etc. The methodology codifies past creativity for large scale application. The more methodology and the more applicable that methodology, the less all out creativity you need to apply.

However, you need to be able to identify when the methodology is insufficient and apply your creativity levers to a challenge. And this is something that must be constantly evaluated against all the things you mention.

Re: http://fredwilson.vc/post/792940484

Aneel — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:08:52 -0000

Maybe suggest it to the folks at http://www.porchettanyc.com/ ..? They make the best damn porchetta in this city.

Re: http://irq.tumblr.com/post/614378187

Aneel — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:32:46 -0000

Points! I had that same question when I first saw this. AFAIK: they don't care so much.. not their job. Or at least, they can't do a lot about it without some kind of cooperation with the dc net vendor at a given site. They can only solve the inbound connections going to the right dc + host part. I've seen various ways of dealing with the triangle routing issue and the outbound connections going out the right gateway issue. Horizontal traffic having to go x-dc isn't going to go away unless you move over not just 1 vm but the entire collection of vms that make up an app stack / workload.