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AWS, Apache, Crypto, Irish Music, Haiku, Photography

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    1. Andrew Mulholland‏ @itwasntandy 28 May 2019
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      It wasn’t tivoli, but it wasn’t much better. IBM GPFS. Was sold as being supported on Ubuntu. Discovered after signing that they only supported RHEL or SuSE. Ran into a fun fstab limitation where volumes larger than 2TB could be created but then post reboot wouldn’t be seen...

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    2. Andrew Mulholland‏ @itwasntandy 28 May 2019
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      ... this was the transcoding data store. Had 100TB of storage ( in 2008 this was quite a lot), and had a fun 24h period where we thought most of our media assets had gone. We had dozens of nodes interconnected over infiniband to provide that 100TB ( gpfs is a cluster fs)...

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    3. Remco van Bree‏ @blikkie 29 May 2019
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      Most assets were gone. All that remained were small originals and conversions if I recall correctly. Good thing Joost went out of business before we needed to re-encode assets to a higher quality.

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    4. Andrew Mulholland‏ @itwasntandy 29 May 2019
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      Memory is foggy, but pretty certain that was a separate issue that arose later from a gpfs metadata corruption bug... after we had moved it onto a “supported” OS. All told it was a mess, had performed well in tests prior to procurement but wasn’t fit for purpose at the time.

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    5. Thom May‏ @thommay 29 May 2019
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      I (dis)honestly think we could have written our own distributed fs for less than the time and money we invested trying to make gpfs work. And then we could've pivoted Joost and got bought by RHAT.

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    6. Andrew Mulholland‏ @itwasntandy 29 May 2019
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      well with the benefit of hindsight, the requirements for the storage were batshit. I mean they were batshit at the time, but looking back they were utterly insane, and ruled out pretty much all the normal storage vendors… I regret not pushing back harder there…

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    7. Andrew Mulholland‏ @itwasntandy 29 May 2019
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      …Not that that any of that would have saved Joost. but it might have made some things easier.

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    8. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 29 May 2019
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      When I reflect on how we could have done better at Joost, it's always about how we could have wasted less money, time, and shut down sooner. Content owners

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    9. Mads Toftum‏ @quasi42 29 May 2019
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      Replying to @colmmacc @itwasntandy and

      Indeed. Even when I left at the end of the first year, it didn't look like the magical content fairy would ever arrive 🤪

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    10. Usul@mamot.fr (I prefer Mastodon)‏ @lhirlimann 29 May 2019
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      At some point the content was fine - but some people felt it wasn't enough. Then we ended up having shitload of shitty content and couldn't find the proper/fine content anymore.

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      Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 29 May 2019
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      Replying to @lhirlimann @quasi42 and

      We had March Madness live, and Big Bang Theory - literally one of the most popular shows of all time. Those aren't small potatoes. But Netflix, Amazon, Hulu showed you need a lot of content diversity to be sticky.

      12:17 PM - 29 May 2019
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        1. Simon_Lucy‏ @Simon_Lucy 29 May 2019
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          And continuous churn of content. A lot of the good current content was CBS US but we had no marketing spend. Stop picking at the scab...

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        1. Andrew Mulholland‏ @itwasntandy 29 May 2019
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          Oh god. March madness is a whole other thread.. Also going global from day 1 was one of the worst decisions (there were many) which resulted in an inconsistent experience which sucked E.g. We had Big Bang theory in the US but not EU. And we had Premier league, but only in UAE...

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        1. Mads Toftum‏ @quasi42 29 May 2019
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          That's at least some improvement over 2006 :) When the big content owners were all thinking about doing their own service, it was always going to be difficult and/or expensive to get the popular content.

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