We utilize the KVM hypervisor to ensure that all resources are dedicatedly allocated to the virtual machine.
They are among the vendors we collaborate with within the United States. To reiterate what I previously mentioned to another user, our on-demand stock comprises a diverse range of resources obtained from multiple vendors. In addition to our own infrastructure, we leverage resources from these vendors to effectively address the increasing demand for our services.
A slight correction: FDP is the fourth largest power in Bundestag with slightly more than 10% votes it got in the last federal elections, and what is happening here is not called taking the goverment hostage but a governing party excercising its influence using the instruments given by the parliamentary democracy.
well... 10% votes with only 75% (60mio) people eligible to vote and 76% people voting makes ~6% support of actual voting people. And this was in 2021. I don't think they have that much support anymore.
And while they are "just" exercising their power, they also do so by going against the coalition agreement they signed before, while being obviously influenced by VW/Porsche guys. I'm not sure there is much democracy left in this case anymore.
I feel your friend little bit exaggerated the situation or simply had bad luck.
The staff of the doctor you usually go knows you and don‘t ask your statuary health insurance card upon each visit. They have it in your file.
Worst case you present a paper you download from your insurance provider‘s website.
As a last resort, you declare you are privately insured and you walk out. They send the invoice to home and you send it to your insurer or pay from your pocket. A simple GP visit does not cost more than 40-50 Euros.
People are helpful. Maybe the staff of their doctor was not that day.
Here in Germany, "Mandibular advancement splint"[1] is a popular device recommended by doctors for less severe apnea cases. I was diagnosed with a light apnea and now I am getting this device as my test results showed that a CPAP treatment would be overkill but this could help. I am afraid I can't share more experiences as I am waiting the device to be prepared after 2 hours of dentist visit where they took some measurements.
What kind of ARM machine should I buy if I want to self-host an ARM server? My not-that-recent look at the market shows everyone kind of doing their own thing; Amazon makes Amazon's ARM servers, Apple makes Apple's ARM chips, etc. As some random guy who wants to test on ARM, it's annoying. Maybe things have improved recently, though?
(I'm guessing self-host realistically means "get a VM on AWS", which is probably fine for CI if you already use AWS. A little annoying to have another monthly bill to pay if you don't, though.)
The ARM nodes which are exactly the topic of this submission could be a place where you can self-host your GH runners :)
https://github.com/actions-runner-controller/actions-runner-... works quite well with its autoscaling. You could create a zonal GKE cluster, which is in free tier, and create a small spot vm node pool with ARM nodes. It wouldn't be entirely free but it would cost quite low amount of money.
Your best options IMO are either 1) a Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM running a Linux VM or Asahi Linux connected OR 2) an Nvidia Jetson Xavier AGX; you can get the 32GB version for like $700 USD I think. (The newer Orin is a fair bit more expensive.)
You realistically want something with ARMv8.2 or better, these are relatively easy to acquire with the current supply chains, they're beefy, can be equipped with fast storage, and they are both small units you can put on your desk. Note that the Xavier will require you to fiddle with the usual Nvidia bullshit through their SDK but it's otherwise a standard Ubuntu machine. It should be possible to get another distro on there too. The M1 will almost certainly perform better overall watt-for-watt though.
The point is to not have to self-host. It costs money, is a pain because maintenance is required, and there are security issues with running CI for public pull requests.
First of all Cloud Run only provides the workload / container part of an application. SetOps also does more like managing databases, storage, backups, monitoring, network security, etc.
Also you have some potential for saving money by over-provisioning your workloads on the actual compute instances, which is, as far as I can see, is not possible with Cloud Run.
I have 3-node vSphere cluster with 36 cores, 300 GB of RAM, bunch of different disk options (magnetic, SSD, NVMe)
It is all powered by Ubiquiti networking gear.
VMware VUG is providing free and legal VMware licenses. I get to run VSAN, on top of it I deploy Kubernetes and I can decide if my pod wants to use poor performance VSAN disks (like EBS on AWS) or faster local NVMe‘s.
These are just couple of things I can make at home. Everything started as an experiment and it started to look like a replica of what we can have in a datacenter, but without a SLA.
First of all, all these stuff is extremely fun for me. Secondly, I won‘t go into details but as a cloud consultant, this thing I started as a hobby became one of the big boosters of my career. I never expected such an effect but I am extremely impressed by this.
PS: I see that your VMs are created in CoreWeave datacenters. I wonder the relationship between your company and CoreWeave. Are you just a reseller?