JerkyChew

Lifting and shifting an existing monolithic architecture to the cloud with zero modernization changes will result in a higher cost than leaving it in a data center.

Converting the application to use as much serverless and microservice-based technology as possible is where the cloud ROI is.

My Chia crypto farm at its peak had about 1.5 PB of plots, each plot was I think about 100ish gigs? I’d plot them on a dedicated machine and then move them to storage for farming. I think I’d move around 10TB per night.

It was done with a combination of powershell and bash scripts on Windows, Linux, and the built in Windows Services for Linux.

I’ve been a reddit user for at least 15 years. I’ve been a Lemmy user for a few months. Lemmy has a long way to go before it’s a “viable Reddit alternative”. Right now it’s barely usable.