Tuesday Tweet thread time! Warning, because this one is *shameless* promotion and a very minor, but still crass, personal victory lap
. I'm going to compare the work it took at my former startup jobs that would now take ... oh, seconds, with EC2.
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At my last job, I built 6 multi-rack installations of servers. Most were SUN (RIP) boxes in Level3 (RIP) colos. Our biggest was in our own datacenter, which we converted from office space. Job before that I built out two room-sized installations.
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Anyway, at my last job (Joost), we were streaming video using p2p (until we abandoned p2p). We needed to build our own "Long Tail Sites" CDN. We couldn't use commercial CDNs, because we used our own protocol. That was very dumb, but there you go.
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Before we could build any sites, we needed to get colo space. We didn't have a lot of time for negotiating and getting through vendors, so we focused on vendors that could sign one contract that covered many sites. So folks like Level3 and Equinix.
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Still that took months. Meetings between me, our purchasing manager (Menno), our Lawyer (Melinda) ... just to get to good commercials. We ended up going with Level3 because they could *also* sell us bandwidth, which meant one fewer contract to negotiate.
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We had to do all of this too for which servers to buy. We ended up going with SUN hardware, though x86 not Sparc, because we wouldn't have people nearby the sites and they had an excellent reputation for reliability. Also Mads, one of our sysadmins, had a thumb on the scale.
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Oh also, the SUN boxes had a great ILOM (Integrated Lights Out Management) which meant we could actually boot and reimage the things remotely, which was important. We had a "Golden Image" deployment pattern.
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Replying to @colmmacc
Jumpstart? I had a contractor on my team working 100% building something like puppet or chef...
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