Pick n Pay moves its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services

Benedict A55h0le said:
Since when? And this is just 1 type of cloud service. If it was possible to do this locally then why is all Checkers` AWS stuff in Ireland and Germany? No, the better choice is to use the full blown Azure cloud that have been up in JHB for years already. Even has local fall over to Azure CPT.
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Jirre when you talk kak, and double down - even when you're told you're just plain wrong.

AWS has multiple DC's here and has had them for a few years AND before you tell me that I'm ignorant - I used to work for them.
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
You are talking about mobile native apps, that is not 1st choice today. Think more in terms of a mobile browser app, caching is limited, and products should probably not be cached very long, if ever. PnP is targeting people that mostly don`t have the latest mobiles with lots of memory to burn.
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For someone who claims to be a cloud architect, you continue to prove to know exceedingly little..

There is this service called CDN, that allows you to cache stuff locally, close to your users, all while having your actual compute located geographically elsewhere AND, get this, NOT have to cache anything locally.. Yes, I know this sounds crazy, but it's completely possible to cache things close to your users without having to rely on their mobile devices for that cache store..

Amazing, right...
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
You can not just refresh the local CDN, this does not seem correct as a strategy to reduce the effect of latency and is not feasible to do for ecommerce where product inventory info must be real time.
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Actually, yes, you can just refresh the local CDN to pull in new content and purge the old.. it's really just that simple..
 
Cloud architects always have their head's in the cloud. :ROFL:

...... I'll show myself out now.
 
2022 said:
They might have started their project before AWS South Africa met their needs.

AWS in South Africa is limited in other ways as not all the AWS services are offered to in South Africa. So it's a smart choice to run where all the services are available.

I believe fargate was delayed being ready in South Africa for a while, as well as AWS Marketplace having region restrictions with many images.
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Why would anyone torture themselves with Fargate?
 
Gnome said:
Microsoft is starting to innovate a bit more but AWS I believe is still considered the market leader by reputable research such as Gartner, so they are probably the company to watch for "new developments".
ie. They started the whole cloud computing craze, created S3, EC2, EBS, Lambda, etc. (basically copied as is by other providers and the trend of just copying AWS is still continuing)

So if it is just about know what is available, I'd definitely keep my eye on them.

That said, I think a lot of this stuff is a bit of trying to start with technology and make a company work for that technology.
I'd really start with how the company works, see how I can migrate them as is and then adapt their workflows to these new services being offered as optimisations after getting everything migrated.

For a Microsoft shop (ie. .NET, Windows Server, etc.), I expect Azure can make a lot of sense.
For other setups, AWS (in my biased opinion), makes a lot of sense.
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Gartner and “reputable research” ha ha ha ha.

They pay big $ for every single person doing said “research” and reviewing products they’ve used.

It’s as biased as it comes, the only real benefit is that they at least verify every person as a real one.
 
Pho3nix said:
Why would anyone torture themselves with Fargate?
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I've never "productionized" on Fargate, I've only played around with it for a couple of days in my personal capacity.

EKS is always the goto because K8s.
 
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