cloud infrastructure

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2019 by Julian Lemoine · across every show →

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Oct 16, 2019
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Algolia founders chose bare-metal hardware over cloud VMs at inception
“First big decision we took, it was in the very early days of the company, we were only two, we have not even fundraise, we have no salaries, so very, very early days of the company, we decided to use bare metal infrastructure and not use cloud infrastructure, …”
Julian Lemoine Oct 16, 2019 ▶ 4:14 Founder's Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks
Oct 16, 2019 negative
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Cloud infrastructure in 2012 lacked the hardware required for search engines
“Like search engines are very intensive in terms of CPU, SSD, memory, so we had to pretty much select a very specific machine, very specific hardware, to make sure we have the best performance of the market. None of that was available on cloud infrastructure at…”
Julian Lemoine Oct 16, 2019 ▶ 5:35 Founder's Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks
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