Projects

1. Noion Labs

Custom hosting: noionlabs.com. Bare metal or VMs, customized to you, with expert go-the-extra-distance engineering support, and prices that beat the big cloud providers.

2. Ox

What if docker was your API to the entire cloud?

We spend a lot of time, and a lot of complexity managing cloud deployments. Substantially this is because those deployments use the same mental model we had before the cloud. If you need more compute, you provision (and configure, and manage, etc) a new machine. If you need more storage, you need to attach a disk someplace and resize a partition, etc.

We’ve tried a few new things: serverless means no more servers! but oops, we are going to manage hundreds, thousands, or maybe tens of thousands of “functions” instead, and wire them together… AWS Aurora did better, but it is proprietary, expensive to get performance, and only for you database and not your code.

You could just go with a PaaS (Heroku anyone?) and they will manage and scale the machine equivalents for you, but then it feels like you running blind, with no view inside the managed black box.

So lets try a different mental model. What if the cloud is just one big docker host? That infinitely scalable compute isn’t “add another machine” but rather “add another CPU”, add another GB/TB of storage, add more RAM.

Oxpower.io →

3. Other Stuff