The Actuator – May 20th

sqlrockstar over 3 years ago 1 minute read time

I don’t want to alarm you, but Memorial Day is this coming Monday. I know. It feels as if we skipped most of March, and all of April. But here we are. I hope you’re able to enjoy the coming holiday with family and friends in some manner.

As always, here's a bunch of links I hope you find useful. Enjoy!

Here's Who Just Voted to Let the FBI Seize Your Online Search History Without a Warrant
I don’t understand how anyone believes it is OK to allow law enforcement access to your data without a warrant.

Twitter announces employees will be allowed to work from home ‘forever’
Can’t wait for the updated job description “100% work from home, must live in Bay Area.”

Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
I’ve been hearing this statistic for a while now, but never in a public announcement. Now you know why Microsoft loves Linux.

Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models
Machine learning doesn’t work well when events suddenly no longer follow the normal pattern.

Elon Musk restarts Tesla production in defiance of county lockdown
I understand his frustration, but Musk is setting a bad example here.

An outbreak of Coronavirus trojans and scams
Raising awareness of the many types of scams floating around right now. Don’t let your friends or family be a victim.

DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage
Insights on how DoorDash, Grubhub, and Yelp operate.

It took us an hour to hike up to Goat’s Rock, but the view was worth the effort.

ecklerwr1 over 3 years ago

The above is despite the C2 Amazon cloud even. MS may have been a little later to the game but they're VERY quickly getting the right certification levels needed.
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ecklerwr1 over 3 years ago

You're right sqlrockstar this may finally be the year of linux! It's just a few years later than originally forecast. We initially did most cloud on AWS but it's looking more and more like our type of business actually fits better with Azure in a BIG way. A lot of this has to do with the type and security requirements for the data. From what I can see it looks like Azure is actually more secure than AWS although I'm sure some would argue that's not the case but just look at who's certified for what.
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ecklerwr1 over 3 years ago

I think some people may stay working from home now though. In fact some companies may look at this as a test for way to move out of some cities and have employees support their businesses remotely now instead. In this way it could be one silver lining in this disaster.
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ecklerwr1 over 3 years ago

One thing is for sure... in hindsight shutting the country down has been a mistake but now people need to go back to work. The longer people sit around and not going to work the worse things are going to get. No one seems to be reporting on the increase in suicide, depression, and other side effects. We didn't really know at first so looking back won't help now but prolonging the agony is only going hurt everyone in the long run.
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gfsutherland over 3 years ago

Linux in the cloud. Considering the explosive growth of cloud services, Linux would be the obvious choice. Easy to deploy, less overhead, massive open source solutions and it scales reasonably well. As a user of cloud services, if it is secure, and functions well, and saves me money. I'm in!
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