Dutch expat in London. Principal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, QUnit project lead @ qunit , jQuery Infra Team @ jquery , W3C Web Perf WG. Avatar: I look up, raindrops bounce from the tip of my leather hat. Photo by Niek Hidding. Creative interests: linguistics, music, photography. Work interests: performance, web standards, design, privacy, security. # webperf # PHP # mediawiki # wikipedia # qunit # nederlands # fedi22 # foss # OpenSource # tech # technology # wikimedia # jquery
Dutch expat in London. Principal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, QUnit project lead @ qunit , jQuery Infra Team @ jquery , W3C Web Perf WG. Avatar: I look up, raindrops bounce from the tip of my leather hat. Photo by Niek Hidding. Creative interests: linguistics, music, photography. Work interests: performance, web standards, design, privacy, security. # webperf # PHP # mediawiki # wikipedia # qunit # nederlands # fedi22 # foss # OpenSource # tech # technology # wikimedia # jquery
Fastmail @fastmail@mastodon.social has been operating on bare metal for 25 years. Their planning and (over-)provisioning strategy reminds me of Wikimedia.
Situations where cloud renting is cost effective for medium or large companies are vanishingly rare, and always have been. As with so many big tech patterns, this is a myth held up by VC-backed startups and incentives.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/
#Fastmail #baremetal #sustainability #CloudExit #CloudRepatriation #selfhosted #SelfHosting
