pwarner

Last fall I had the chance to fly SFO to LHR on an A380 and return trip on a 747. Such a smooth journey. Post COVID, I strongly suggest finding one of these for a future flight, if there are any left flying post COVID that is...

wenc, do you folks in your organization use the channel messaging part of Teams? Aka the teams chat part, or do folks tend to use the one on one or small group chat. We see folks actively avoid the channel based messaging in teams. Like 99.5% of messages are in chat.

I assume AWS will start using graviton for their S3, EBS, ELB etc services aggressively?

Yeah Teams may be the best "do it all", but Zoom and Slack are far better at their focus. Slack makes it very well known they don't use the calling built into Slack, they use Zoom.

The channel or team messaging part is unusable. You can't leave channels, you can't ever get the right people in a team. Everyone just ends up using group chat, which is way more closed. For channel messaging it does not compete with Slack.

I am not sure Teams does anything well, but it does many things! Actually, I take it back, it is the best interface into SharePoint!

I think this is the Zoom response to that one: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/03/response-to-resear...

As I read it they accidentally routed some data to China based servers for a month (Feb 2020) due to a config mess up during their crazy fast scaling period. This is since fixed.

I think the admin always has the power to see things in all tools unless it's true E2E encryption which I think is very rare in corporate environments, or even non existent?

I think Azure also has more regions than AWS, but yet a smaller overall capacity probably, so it's gotta be harder to keep space capacity. It's notable the shortages are isolated to specific regions. They were possibly small to start and so it probably didn't take as much to hit capacity there? Just a guess.

Yeah Slack themselves use Zoom. Slack is a channel based messaging tool, it integrates with best of class video tools like Zoom and file storage tools like Box or even SharePoint.

Teams does it all OKish, although the channel based messaging is probably the worst part.

It's sort of wrong to look at Teams as a Slack replacement. Well, it is for who just want chat, and don't care about channel messaging.

AWS spot prices are rising last 3 weeks.

Oh, I see Azure is struggling more indeed. They have smaller overall size, and way more regions so that must be a really hard combo to maintain proper spare capacity.

Thanks for confirming. Let's hope this is all we see. Signed up for your newsletter!

> Azure offers a large number of configuration options that can be tricky to get right

That's basically the summary of Azure. I think all that complexity ends up hurting more than it helps, not just on the end user side, but in terms of lower reliability from the provider side.

I don't think we need symmetrical, but could we get 4:1 ratio instead of 20:1 please? PIN fiber that Verizon FiOS uses is 4:1 at the physical layer, or it was with BPON and GPON standards. I did not follow. I imagine they can sell symmetrical since most people don't use much upstream. Oversubscription is standard and works great in almost all cases.

Tony Macgee of Lagunitas has a full on book on this. Fun read. Henhouse and Lagunitas are basically across the street from each other and both have great beer. Bonus they are next to my office!

https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Start-Brewery-Lagunitas/dp/1...

Except MS is countering with MS Teams, which is truly enterprise ready in the same sense as the Twitter thread describes.

It's very possible there are politics at play here, but the NWS forecast sounds like something we won't get every year? Although we had it in 2017 in the North Bay and 2018 in Butte county, so maybe it is going to be common?

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&issuedby=M...

Wouldn't we focus on taking it out of most other things first? Solve electricity and land based transport first and figure out sea and air later? I not read the article so down vote they explain why we should focus on this when we are so far from solving other easier problems.

Yep

HPE cloud at least

Of course there is https://www.ec2instances.info/ or if you are into Azure then https://azureprice.net/

3rd party services offer this for sure - https://www.cloudhealthtech.com/ - https://cloudcheckr.com/

And several others.

Teams video and audio is the best part of Teams. Teams was launched as a Slack killer, but in reality I think it's closer as a replacement to Zoom than Slack.

Good point but The battle continues with Google, Amazon, Facebook taking the corner of the Netherlands. They run massive networks and definitely do it differently than the Bellheads

It's sad how bad bay area air is at night. Fireplaces seem fun, but really don't work in California valleys.

Redwood tip beer available in the bay area: https://moonlightbrewing.com/beers/working-for-tips/

I have still not tried it, but want to.

They can carpool to work.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-kurian-twins-won-the...