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Concourse is pretty sweet. I enjoy it more than my experiences with Jenkins.

FD: I work at Pivotal (but not on Concourse), the makers of concourse.

Actually, Azure is fully supported! Microsoft wrote the CPI adapter themselves.

FD: I work on Cloud Foundry

That's one of the problems we're trying to solve with Ufora.

Because it's so much more difficult to write "high performance parallel simulations", we want to make it so you can write whatever code you want, and let the platform figure out how to make it fast, parallel, and distributed.

Glad to hear you like it! We think it's pretty cool ourselves :-)

PM @ Ufora here. Happy to answer any questions you might have!

I find it concerning when project developers don't seem to know exactly WHY the product exists or how it compares to competition on the market.

If I'm spending a lot of time working on a product that has a clear competitor(s), I'd expect to know exactly why my product is going to be better than those competitors (ie. in which ways), and what their weaknesses are.

100% true on all counts.

So actually Hawaii has an incredibly high cost of living.

Turns out there are lots of people who are attracted to the allure, and a limited amount of space.

The metrics are often broken. Think about how you measure it...

Ideally, you want to pay the ad platform for sending you a user who will buy your product. So you say something like: "I'll pay you X for every user you send me who buys something".

Great, right?

Except now the ad can simply optimize for users who were GOING to buy your product anyway. So now you've spent money getting users who would have been there anyway.

What you really want is to pay for users "Who buy my product, but would NOT have bought it without the presence of the ad". And that's a much harder thing to measure.

And that attitude is why they have much more money than you.

Indeed this was running on RHEL, though our client is a RHEL customer, and so far we aren't.

Another great option. I'll try to get in touch with them today!

I can't figure out how they're "weird"... am I missing something?

EDIT: Yes, yes I am. Power8 architecture. Probably not best for attempting to reproduce client bugs :-)

That may be a winner! $150/week for a server that MIGHT get us a repro is a good place to start.