@GergelyOrosz: On Bending Spoons: I still think about when they bought Evernote in 2023, it had user data stored on 750 manually provi…
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Gergely Orosz highlights how Bending Spoons fixed Evernote's fragile legacy infrastructure, which ran on 750 manually provisioned GCP VMs and a Java 11 monolith, in about six months.
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On Bending Spoons: I still think about when they bought Evernote in 2023, it had user data stored on 750 manually provisioned (!!) VMs on GCP, sharded, with ongoing performance + reliability issues, running a Java 11 monolith (!!!)
Then they went ahead and fixed it in ~6 months https://t.co/ISnHfW1Tj0
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