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Contino
Company blog · contino.io/insightsprogrammingbusiness
Contino is the company blog at contino.io, writing about programming and business. Since 2017, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Who's Using AWS?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Contino's "who's using AWS" insights page as a list of companies publicly known to use AWS, cited in threads about AWS and Amazon. Its job listings also appear.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Contino helps large, heavily-regulated enterprises to become fast, agile and competitive
Most-linked posts?
- Who's Using AWS?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-01
- British Airways: Why Production Releases Are Dominated by *Fear*2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-02
What Hacker News says?
They are much harder to avoid than google: Look at this list: https://www.contino.io/insights/whos-using-aws Amazon, and their primary revenue stream (AWS) is *immune* to boycott because it's so diversified. The fact that a company is immune to boycott is alarming.
Comment linking /insights/whos-using-aws
on “Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B”Submitted Monzo Lost £6.7M Last Year: And This Should Terrify Traditional Banks as a story · 17 points
HN discussionContino (contino.io/join-us) | London, New York, Sydney (ONSITE) | full-time | DevOps Engineer | Cloud Engineer| Software Engineer Contino are an industry leading digital transformation consultancy with a particular focus on emerging technology across DevOps, Cloud, Containers and Big Data. We're ensuring enterprise organisations worldwide can scale, ship code and deliver to their customers at pace. We're looking fo…
Comment linking /join-us
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted British Airways: Why Production Releases Are Dominated by *Fear* as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMaybe a few here would cause some concern. Also note that not all companies/governments using AWS just let everybody know that they are, so they aren't listed and you can only know when the service goes offline. > Adobe, Airbnb, Alcatel-Lucent, AOL, Acquia, AdRoll, AEG, Alert Logic, Autodesk, Bitdefender, BMW, British Gas, Canon, Capital One, Channel 4, Chef, Citrix, Coinbase, Comcast, Coursera, Docker, Dow Jones, E…
Comment linking /insights/whos-using-aws
on “Lyft Files S-1”Submitted Enterprise Site Reliability Engineering [pdf] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHi Carlos! Yes we were one of them. Hashicorp was a big part of our success ( https://Contino.io ). Hashicorp were nice to work with. Congrats guys.
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on “HashiCorp IPO today”Submitted A Docker Captain Goes to DockerCon 2017, Part 1: The Moby Project and LinuxKit as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt is actually based on the ec2 instance type you decide to boot, and generally the bigger the instance the more ENI's you can attach. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-en... The EC2 k8s network driver they wrote essentially will attach/detach extra ENI's on the fly and pre-allocate IP addresses to your EC2 host to allow for fast pod spin up/down. I found this article pretty helpful to explai…
Comment linking /insights/kubernetes-is-hard-why-eks-makes-it-easier-for-network-and-security-architects
on “DigitalOcean VPC”Submitted Monzo Lost £6.7M Last Year and This Should Terrify Traditional Banks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA good majority of media takes advantage of AWS; From [0]: > Here are the names that are on record publicly as using AWS: > Aon, Adobe, Airbnb, Alcatel-Lucent, AOL, Acquia, AdRoll, AEG, Alert Logic, Autodesk, Bitdefender, BMW, British Gas, Baidu, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canon, Capital One, Channel 4, Chef, Citrix, Coinbase, Comcast, Coursera, Disney, Docker, Dow Jones, European Space Agency, ESPN, Expedia, Financial T…
Comment linking /insights/whos-using-aws
on “Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion””Submitted Guide to Becoming a DevOps Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAccording to this, both Twitter and Facebook use aws: https://www.contino.io/insights/whos-using-aws There have been a lot of livestreams and general calls of hate and violence on those social media sites from all political spectrums. Where are their bans? That's why theres an uproar. New York Times, A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myan…
Comment linking /insights/whos-using-aws
on “AWS repeatedly warned Parler about posts urging murder”Submitted How to Get the Most Out of Google Cloud Next: OnAir as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who's Using AWS? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is OpenFaaS and Why Is It an Alternative to AWS Lambda? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating the Best Environment for DevOps Transformation in The… as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Make a Strategic, Value-Driven Business Case for Your DevOps… as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top 3 Terraform Testing Strategies for Ultra-Reliable Infrastructure-As-Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Production Releases Are Dominated by Fear as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Go Faster, Securely: The DevSecOps Paradox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey Engineers, You Need to Take the DevOps Conversation Past the Technical Crowd as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Challenges to DevOps Adoption as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Treat your Terraform code as an app for others to use as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Wish List for re:invent 2020 – “day one Cloudformation support” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get the Most Out of AWS’ EMEA Online Summit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One of the best posts on why cloud native architecture matters to real people as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Game-Changing DevOps and Cloud Trends (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Things Every CTO Should Know About Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Donald Trump Meets DevOps and the Cloud as a story · 1 points
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