DADavid Aronchickindistributedthoughts.org·May 8 · 11 min readFor Londoners, a Roman Bridge Still Determines Your CommuteAround 50 CE, give or take a few years, a group of Roman military engineers picked a spot on the River Thames and bridged it. They picked the place they did because it was the narrowest practical crossing downstream of the marshes that lined the rive...00
DADavid Aronchickindistributedthoughts.org·May 6 · 9 min readThe Permission ProblemLet's talk about Loudoun County, Virginia. If you don't work in infrastructure, you've never heard of it. If you do, this is THE place. Somewhere between 60% and 70% of the world's internet traffic routes through facilities sitting in this one Northe...00
DADavid Aronchickindistributedthoughts.org·May 5 · 7 min readThe Myth of Fungible DataGartner recently coined a new term: geopatriation. They're predicting that 75% of European and Middle Eastern enterprises will move workloads out of global clouds and back to local or sovereign environments by 2030, up from less than 5% today. The in...00
DADavid Aronchickindistributedthoughts.org·May 5 · 6 min readIn Cloud Native Compute, VMs Feel Like the Enemy (But They Aren't)A quick confession The first production system I was ever a part of, long before anyone said "Kubernetes," ran on a lovingly hand-tuned SunOS box at the NIH with 2 (TWO!) CPUs. We cursed at shared library issues, noisy neighbors, and slow disks, and ...00
DADavid Aronchickindistributedthoughts.org·May 5 · 6 min readWhy Single Machines (and Single Clusters) Are Not Enough: The Orchestration MindsetThe Orchestration Epiphany I joined the Kubernetes team in January 2015, and one of my first memories was a late-night chat with Tim Hockin. We were discussing the opportunity in front of us, and he told me about his first experience with Borg, Googl...00
