[dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi John:

Well of course you are not downloading the entire core with all the rigs and every version that will run on you smartphone up to a 3D Imax, of the movie just you can rip and view it on your TV but all that detail is saved.

What you have is an excellent application along with the biggest and baddest home computer anyone could assemble. That said, today, few individuals would ever consider that as an option for resolving their big data problems. Most system admins would move their needs off to the web (Cloud). It is basically cheaper, faster and easier...how much would you calculate all your hours times say $65 per hour... Add the price of components, assemble, shipping, self-training, ongoing maintenance and so on. What you database server look like to me is a beautiful, hand-built, high performance sports-car...a real thing of beauty.   

If you were starting from scratch today would you follow the same route?  You wouldn't necessarily have to move everything to a public Cloud. 

I would bet that with maybe ten beater boxes, not particularly tricked-out, connected in a single network, a single file-system, where all the systems work as a single entity, the same functionality (or far greater) could be obtained along with superior performance, far greater reliability and probably for a lot cheaper...right in your basement.

I have used this video before but it does lend its self towards the new way data is managed. It shows a IBM system but really what we are seeing is a system with a number motherboards, cores and memory all connected into a single entity. With all those cores, memory and access to a group of OSS programs (services) all abstracted and assembled through an application like Juju (https://jujucharms.com/ ...which is actually what Microsoft Azure uses.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBNoIwGEjo

Aside: I have been playing at this for a while with this tech with some success but given a combination of, my life is not my own and laziness, the progress has been slow. ;-)

Jim      

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Development in Visual Studio" <dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 10:51:47 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

Lol and I'm going to download a 26 petabyte movie over my 60 mb/s phone 
link with a 30 gb data cap....

Should take me oh... a few thousand years and a few billion dollars in data.

In the meantime I built a 16 core server with 96 gb of ram and 12 tb 
raid 12 and run a full on business from it.  6 VMs on a second little 
hex core server with a mere 32 gb of ram.

The fact that something can be done doesn't mean it should be done. Or 
that it makes any damned sense for that matter.  There's not a day goes 
by that new hacks don't surface exposing millions, even billions of 
personal records.  We now have systems in place where every dollar in 
your bank account can be drained from Russia or China, and you will 
never get it back.

 >As for the Cloud there are some things that just can not be done any 
other way.

You got that right.  Ain't technology wonderful?



On 11/29/2015 8:27 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> As for the Cloud there are some things that just can not be done any other way.
>
> Huge files and incredible high processing speed come to mind.
>
> One article, that discussed this comes to mind. In the old days a movie would easily fit on one of two rolls of "Nitrocellulose"...yes, it is as explosive as it sounds. Today that technology is all but gone. Movies are now digitized, are super high resolution, up to 64 frames a second but they take up a lot of drive space...and the media must be absolutely perfect...no data drops, not even a single pixel. Where else would anyone store the complete movie like "Gravity", that is 26 Pentabytes?
>
> Then the new super computers. They use to be something like a single Cray but today a Cloud farm of thousands of interconnected CPUs running as a single computer, running at over 33.86 petaFLOPS (per second).
>
> There is nothing that the Cloud couldn't do when it comes to bigger, faster and more reliable.
>
> This technology is not just limited to big players at extraordinary costs. The prices are continuing coming down, if someone wants to go commercial and any enthusiast (Geek) can set up a small Cloud system in their basement, using off the shelf computers and software.
>
> Jim

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