We are cloud FinOps experts, helping our customers to reduce cloud spend using innovative commitment trading techniques. We have several internal products, and a customer-facing web portal.
We are proud of our culture of openness and transparency, with an emphasis on learning. We operate autonomous self-organised teams, and we value everyone’s ideas and opinions. We do a lot of pair programming to share knowledge and experience. We currently work fully remote, with occasional visits to our London office for collaborative work that helps us get to know each other better.
We seek enthusiastic developers who either know or would like to learn Clojure. We currently have a diverse team of nine full-stack devs, but we have plenty of front-end and back-end work, so we can accommodate people who have a preference.
Burning the propane takes you back to CO2, which you then turn back into propane again and repeat? If your napkin maths is correct, and the process is net energy positive, doesn't this violate the principle of conservation of energy?
It must take at least as much energy to turn carbon dioxide into propane as you generate when you burn that propane to generate carbon dioxide.
You are correct, you cannot sell Convertible RIs on the RI Marketplace.
I think it is going too far to say that RIs are a trap: the rules are pretty transparent. I agree with you that if your infra is elastic or evolving then you need to be very cautious about making large or long-term commitments.
That used to be true, when AWS only sold AZ-specific RIs, but for a long time now AWS have (by default) sold region-level RIs instead, and these do not include a capacity reservation. You can now purchase Capacity Reservations [0] on their own.
It is great to see articles like this, as Reserved Instances are a fantastic way to save some money, and they are widely misunderstood.
I work for a company [0] that specialises in Cloud FinOps, and I helped write our in-house billing system, which has to deal with _all_ of the intricacies of Reserved Instances, so I know very well how deep this rabbit hole goes.
This article opens by categorising RIs as "one of the most complex but crucial AWS offerings", but I think it perhaps glosses over some of that complexity, which might cause people to get burnt. For example, it suggests that you can safely sell your way out of trouble on the RI Marketplace, but in many cases you can't: there are 5 products you can buy RIs for (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and Redshift), but the RI Marketplace only lets you sell EC2 RIs, and only Standard EC2 RIs at that, not Convertible.
I don't want to take anything away from this article, nor do I want to frighten people away from buying RIs, but please take care. If you aren't sure, I encourage you to use one of the many companies operating in this space to help you out (and you certainly don't have to give away 20% of your savings to do that).
We are cloud FinOps experts, helping our customers to reduce cloud spend using innovative commitment trading techniques. We have several internal products, and we are currently building a new customer-facing portal.
We are proud of our culture of openness and transparency with an emphasis on learning. We operate autonomous self-organised teams, and we value everyone’s ideas and opinions. We do a lot of pair programming to share knowledge and experience. We currently work fully remote, with occasional visits to our London office for collaborative work that helps us get to know each other better.
We seek enthusiastic developers who either know or would like to learn Clojure. We currently have a diverse team of nine full-stack devs, but we have plenty of front-end and back-end work, so we can accommodate people who have a preference.
Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't considered fly fishing, but I grew up learning fishing from my father, and the kids have already been out on his boat a few times. I think you are right that fishing encompasses a wide range of skills.
My eldest had her first lesson at 9 weeks. The younger one had to wait a bit longer due to lockdown. Babies take really well to the water, and I think it is a great bonding exercise.
A single malt is not made from a single cask, and each cask behaves slightly differently. The distiller therefore has a lot to work with, and will very carefully blend multiple casks to create the desired single malt product before bottling.
Strategic Blue are a small company (11 staff, tech team of 4) working in financing for cloud compute: currently re-selling, but we are getting enough customers now to start spec trading, which is where things get interesting.
Looking to hire one or two experienced devs, not necessarily with any Clojure experience, but decent general development ability, and some exposure to XP practices.
We have a decent package to offer, and you will have plenty of opportunity to influence the business.