Ok, I’ll be so freaking jalous of whomever get this "Unix Pipefitter" job @ Akoha. My current obligation and futur plan prevent me of being able to do 9-17 "in-office" job, the max I could give is remote work and this isn’t as accepted from boss as people might think. Still, I’ll be jalous.
One cool fact this job offer show us is the integration of web services in Akoha network. Using Amazon for network scalability is so the way to go, but I seem unable to present this correctly to my client, they (almost) always say no…. This is really a good way to grow your computer power / storage without having to go through all those "This SAN is 40K$", "This load balancer should be operated by a Foundry Programmer", etc… I think they are afraid of the variable cost…
Amazon S3 + EC2 infrastructure will change the way you think about mass computing and this isn’t a sales pitch. If you are able to plan your network usage ahead, go for your own hardware + datacenter access, but if you need scalability, this is really the way to go… Been using the system for the last couples of month, as a "turn-on backup system". Every friday night, I start an instance of an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) which backup a couple of my hosts and turn down. Really, try it!
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