@scottalanmiller said:
Wow, I need to read a bit more... apparently skimming the article and the OP didn't help with comprehension.

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@DustinB3403 said:

A bit of an old post (2013) but apparently "Facebook doesn't virtualize its servers, because its software already consumes all the hardware resources, meaning virtualization would result in a performance penalty without a gain in efficiency."

Seems odd, but ok, and I assume their still using Spinning Rust too... (again I know the topic is almost 2 years old)

This is one of those odd situations. I had a 10K compute node (yes, 10K individual servers) cluster on Wall St. We didn't virtualize at the individual server level because the entire thing was treated as a single computer and virtualized at the cluster level.

This is what Facebook is doing. Those are not really individual computers, the virtualization is up the stack higher.

You can even do this at home with Maas and Juju 🙂

Not quite the same. That's just super efficient management of hardware. It doesn't turn the hardware itself into a cluster that acts like a single computer. It acts, more or less, like an autoprovisioning cloud, but not like virtualization.

I doubt that they will be making any "visible" Linux products for some time, at the least.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller posted an almost click bait worthy title claiming that Azure was down. Azure was never down and there was no outage. He lost access to services because Microsoft closed or deleted the account improperly.

That's still Azure down. To us and our customers, Azure was completely down. All servers offline. It's an outage same as any other. It's localized in its impact to an account based "region" rather than to a datacenter-based region or whatever, but it is an outage just the same. The system was supposed to be up, and it was down and Microsoft was unable to bring it up. Even to Microsoft's own technical team it was an outage that they could not fix (for half a day.)

They maybe tied to the admin account you had.

@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Around here they are near Virginia Tech and offer very low paying jobs so some of the poor support is expected.

They famously pay way, way under market in San Antonio. Pretty much anyone good working there can move on almost instantly making for high churn and the top 50% of the company attritioning out year over year.

Guess I should be glad they didn't call me back when I was shitcanned from the big red V. They were opening up a datacenter in Grapevine and were looking for Windows support goons.

Although it's kind of nice getting poached by another provider in the industry. 🙂

They have a reputation for paying half of standard industry rates wherever they are. I don't think you'd have been interested at all.