The real estate is usually purchased only after the following requirements are assured, and there are many: Local and regional power grid robustness which includes: ability to service long-term capacity commitments, whether the developer will need to invest in and build substations themselves, and the legality and availability for on-site power generation (natural gas or electric). All of those requirements generally come after an assessment of local and state government appetite and willingness to cut red tape for such deals and provide favorable environmental policy.
Very handy. We've developed an industrialized variant of this in RelayKit designed for fleets of fielded devices at scale with Anycast, mTLS, multiplexing of services through a single tunnel, Bring Your Own PKI and some other fleet management features that together become a somewhat smarter pipe: https://farlight.io
Ben is eminently and deeply talented, but it's just a different aesthetic that is mostly very literal and conventional. Brian Wilson's songwriting and production technique was a one-of-a-kind imprint.
Datacenters retail space, power, and cooling -- sometimes bandwidth. Data privacy is up to the tenant, but datacenters have a process just like any ISP to facilitate the execution of legal warrants.
My view is that you don't get to have the privilege to know that much about me and benefit from my personal profile without a commitment to privacy and a clear data lifecycle guarantee. You have to start with that.
Yes. The entire platform -- hardware & software -- is just a mess. I bought an MDC phono module for my digital amp only to discover it wasn't supported by its firmware. I waited 18 months to be able to actually use it. I experienced the same non-persistent configuration problem you described and also very sketchy things like the power button simply not working. Unacceptable by any measure and at any price point as far as I'm concerned.
It's the worst reason to end up there, because you have to really want to work there for some qualitative reason to have any hope of adapting to and succeeding in that culture. I always felt so bad when I helped onboard a new hire who said they just wanted to experience working at a FAANG.
IIRC water in earth's mantle is magnitudes greater than the volume contained in our oceans. I think only part of Earth's H2O story is illustrated by this graphic.
Most people don't directly query or otherwise operate on raw CSV, though. Large source datasets in CSV format still reign in many enterprises, but these are typically read into a dataframe, manipulated and stored as Parquet and the like, then operated upon by DuckDB, Polars, etc., or modeled (E.g. DBT) and pushed to an OLAP target.
Yes. AWS enterprise support costs a minimum of USD 15k/month. You receive a dedicated TAM and account SA for more strategic projects or problems, as well as faster live-help response through the ticket system.
I like it, too, but the "What is this?" text should be displayed on the home page, not after clicking. It would assuage most of these types of concerns.
Texas and Taiwan share very little in common in terms of history as political states and entities in the world economic system. It's a strange analogy you're asking us to make with negligible equivalencies.