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New comment by BaconPackets in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

BaconPackets — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:52:08 +0000

I'll need to look at the underlying data, but it seems that the job "classification/category" should be more important than the raw number. A boost in lower paid/service industry jobs does not mean that there wasn't a loss in a category where AI can be more easily dropped into existing businesses.

Data : https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

New comment by BaconPackets in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

BaconPackets — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:45:01 +0000

This is meaningless without context.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

BaconPackets — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:43:57 +0000

This is such a weird redirect. Biden seems to have pardoned a large amount of low level marijuana offenders.

So yes, there is a difference between what Trump is doing and what Biden is doing.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Writing an IaC Rosetta Stone"

BaconPackets — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:24:06 +0000

There is already a couple of options

https://github.com/multycloud/multy

But a multicloud wrapper creates a lot of abstractions.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Inflation is falling much faster than most people know"

BaconPackets — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 18:56:20 +0000

It’s a strange article. Really focused around gas prices and little about food/home prices.

People can’t eat gas. The impact of a 5% to 10% increase in basic food prices is extreme on most income levels. Especially when you consider families with children.

New comment by BaconPackets in "How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta"

BaconPackets — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:57:30 +0000

I would be really curious to drill down into one of these problems. Is super precise really the solution?

How are you handling infra/services/networking delivery with 100 silos/teams?

BaconPackets — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 03:08:21 +0000

Hey good folks!

My $job recently made some large scale cloud commitments - the usual big main clouds (3 of them, just because one wasn't enough!), big contracts and plenty of buzzwords.

Working within the cloud practice for about a month, we are faced with plenty of cloud/staffing/knowledge/flexibility/technical issues. Both due to our scale and the hard questions that such a large technical undertaking is forcing us to face.

I'm curious to hear about other folks how they are approaching infra delivery at scale?

- Do you deliver "empty" projects in the cloud providers and let the service team figure out the rest? Do you run this as a professional service and assist teams to design / deliver their services. - Do you have a happy/default path where everything runs in EKS/GKE/Openshift? What if a service team wants a FAT VM running Windows 2000 because some obscure business requirement? - How do you manage the vast technical domain of 500+ different services across cloud providers? - Do you enable all of the APIs of the cloud providers? Or do you restrict and have "safe/default" enabled? - Do you have a cloud placement matrix for the cloud providers? - How do you manage costs when you don't deliver the underlying services? - How do you deal with teams that are just starting their cloud journey / early maturity level? - How do you treat day 2 operations? Managed services / SRE? Push the ownership to the service teams? - Do you have a community of practice for the cloud? How is that effort structured?

I've had some interesting discussions with a couple of friends, but curious to expand my perspective.

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New comment by BaconPackets in "The West needs to grow up"

BaconPackets — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:36:07 +0000

That is my feeling as well. I am not sure how this is more than someone rambling and yelling at the cloud.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Ask HN: Would you pay for a service that reduces your cloud costs?"

BaconPackets — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:31:26 +0000

This is a very competitive space. You don't hear about a specific leader because there are so many pretty good options.

They mostly do everything you describe and more.

Cloudability is one.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Minimizing correlated failures in distributed systems"

BaconPackets — Thu, 26 May 2022 23:05:44 +0000

I'm really curious at how everyone is approaching scalability/reliability/redundancy at scale.

We are in the midst of a 10k VM migration to AWS and GCP and it's definitely challenging.

Balancing the speed of the migration itself VS not ending up lift and shiftong workloads is difficult.

New comment by BaconPackets in "I interviewed Max Howell, the creator of Homebrew"

BaconPackets — Thu, 19 May 2022 23:57:12 +0000

Ah yes, I knew his name sounded familiar. He's the one proposing that weird mix of NFT and cryptocurrency stuff with Tea.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Bubble Tea: fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps"

BaconPackets — Tue, 10 May 2022 22:23:08 +0000

We recently did a quick POC with py-cui for a TUI app. It worked pretty well but you quickly see the limits.

This looks really interesting and could be a fun way to get into the Go landscape!

New comment by BaconPackets in "MCC (Master Chief Collection) Server Incident Summary"

BaconPackets — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 01:54:30 +0000

The root cause is REALLY surprising. If it's really an unrelated change to the NAT/STUN relay server, it means that there was a pretty broad lack of change management framework.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Show HN: Usage, Cut your AWS Bill by 50%+ in 5 Minutes"

BaconPackets — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:48:59 +0000

To be fair, this is well covered with most enterprise scale Finops for CSP.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Thundernetes makes it easy to run your game servers on Kubernetes"

BaconPackets — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 22:01:46 +0000

It might be more expensive to run but you have savings in terms of time to deployment, orchestration and the overall maturity of the cloud itself.

Managing bare metal at scale is challenging.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello"

BaconPackets — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:54:16 +0000

:shrug: That's fine, I would always rather have a conversation. Thanks for your time!

New comment by BaconPackets in "Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello"

BaconPackets — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:19:15 +0000

Thanks! That gives me a bit more context.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello"

BaconPackets — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:40:40 +0000

I'm currently reading up on this, but I'm struggling to match a use case.

It's not Openstack. It's not VMware. It's not kubernetes. It's not proxmox. It's not Xen. It's not Anthos. It's not GCDE. It's not Outposts.

So who and what is it for? Where is the use case that none of these other products fit the bill?

Especially for an on premise use case.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus"

BaconPackets — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:05:22 +0000

That is interesting. Red Hat is a major player within the telecom industry. I do wonder how support will work for Russian Telcos running VNF on Openstack.

I assume that all contracts have some force majeure actions baked in.

New comment by BaconPackets in "Tell HN: If You Are in Russia"

BaconPackets — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:06:22 +0000

That's interesting. I'm not sure where the technicality resides. If that situation is the case, I assume that it would be quite catastrophic for anyone using non-Russian services for IT.