jhefter

4 karma · joined July 14, 2011

I'm the founder of Neverware. Tech interests include robotics, artificial intelligence, and anything indistinguishable from magic. Outside interests include rescue work and the English language.

jhefteron Looking for partners for a start-up

Partners for what? What space are you working in? What is your domain of competency? Are you the product visionary guy, the business execution guy, the technical execution guy? Is there a particualar location you need to be in? Is there anything you've done in the past that indicates you've got the right DNA for your role and the space you want to be in? So to review: 1) What? 2) Why? 3) And why with you?

jhefteron Why Virtual Machines suck when you run them from BTRFS files system

This problem is similar to (and exacerbated by) the IO bottlenecks VMs experience when using traditional hard drive disks, due to high levels of random IO operations. For this reason, many new virtual setups are using solid state drives, which have no seek time. This keeps the high level of random IO operations from significantly impacting performance.