maybe you don't know that SoftLayer boasts about the amount of custom configuration you can do on their hardware - so much so that they move out of the definition of cloud and into custom hosting
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Replying to @marypcbuk @skeptomai
Which I've exploited to save costs over commodity cloud. I've also happily gone in the other direction... Again, how these are defined really isn't that significant any more IMHO...
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Replying to @darachennis @skeptomai
it's great that it works for you - just don't humpty dumpty the definition and call custom hosting cloud
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Replying to @marypcbuk @skeptomai
I didn't. Pretty sure any such definitions over simplify. Probably fine for your purpose as a communicator and journalist in the grand scheme of things
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Replying to @darachennis @marypcbuk
Wow, for the record, that response sounded douche-y. I was there literally at the birth of EC2 and I agree with Mary.
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Replying to @skeptomai @marypcbuk
? So, the working definition of cloud in operation here is EC2, AWS, CNCFs... happy to be corrected but please offer a definition. Not asking too much?
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Replying to @darachennis @marypcbuk
Nice passive-aggressive question. Now you are just trying to box people into a definition you can start a fight over. I'm not biting.
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Replying to @skeptomai @marypcbuk
I'm already humpty dumpty! Honestly not being aggressive at all, just confused as to how this escalated... Apologies if i seem douchy... my fault / my bad if so...
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Replying to @darachennis @skeptomai
over the years there have been north of 30 definitions of cloud but *none* of them involve specifying things that tie you to specific revisions of hardware and drivers; cloud is about abstracting away from that
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and you sounded *really patronising* so maybe consider how you phrase things next time
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Honestly didn't mean to sound patronising at all. My apologies again...
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