{"id":10227,"date":"2021-11-12T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2021-11-12T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:09:38","slug":"random-short-take-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #63. It&#8217;s Friday morning, and the weekend is in sight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really <a href=\"https:\/\/pediaa.com\/difference-between-client-and-server\/\">enjoyed this article<\/a> from Glenn K. Lockwood about how just looking for an IOPS figure can be a silly thing to do, particularly with HPC workloads. &#8220;If there&#8217;s one constant in HPC, it&#8217;s that everyone hates I\/O.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s a good reason: it&#8217;s a waste of time because every second you wait for I\/O to complete is a second you aren&#8217;t doing the math that led you to use a supercomputer in the first place.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of things that are a bit silly, it seems like <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2021\/10\/29\/netapp-mounts-attack-video-assaults-on-pure-and-dell\/\">someone thought getting on the front foot with some competitive marketing videos<\/a> was a good idea. It rarely is though.<\/li>\n<li>Switching gears a little, you may have been messing about with <a href=\"https:\/\/tanzucommunityedition.io\/\">Tanzu Community Edition<\/a> and asking yourself how you could SSH to a node. Ask no more, as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ukotic.net\/2021\/10\/25\/ssh-to-a-tanzu-community-edition-tce-node\/\">Mark has your answer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of storage companies that are pretty pleased with how things are going, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weka.io\/\">Weka<\/a> has put out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weka.io\/press-releases\/weka-achieves-exascale\/\">this press release<\/a> on its growth.<\/li>\n<li>Still on press releases, <a href=\"https:\/\/imply.io\/\">Imply<\/a> had some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20211109005369\/en\/Imply-Introduces-Project-Shapeshift-the-Next-Step-in-the-Evolution-of-the-Druid-Experience\">good news to share<\/a> at Druid Summit recently.<\/li>\n<li>Intrigued by Portworx and want to know more? Check out these two blog posts on configuring multi-cloud application portability (<a href=\"https:\/\/portworx.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-a-multi-cloud-application-portability-solution-with-portworx\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/portworx.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-a-multi-cloud-application-portability-solution-with-portworx-part-ii\/\">here<\/a>) &#8211; they are excellent. Hat tip to my friend Mike at Pure Storage for the links.<\/li>\n<li>I loved <a href=\"https:\/\/wahlnetwork.com\/2021\/11\/07\/the-changing-landscape-of-project-heroics\/\">this article on project heroics<\/a> from Chris Wahl. I&#8217;ve got a lot more to say about this and the impact this behaviour can have on staff but some of it is best not committed to print at this stage.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I replaced one of my receivers recently and cursed myself once again for not using banana plugs. They <a href=\"https:\/\/avgadgets.com\/banana-plugs-do-they-make-speakers-sound-better\/\">just make things a bit easier to deal with<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #63. It&#8217;s Friday morning, and the weekend is in sight. I really enjoyed this article from Glenn K. 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