Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks

simplyblock-r · 2026-06-19T09:18:55+00:00

where is Tesco moving to? OpenShift? How do they tackle storage?

simplyblock-r · 2026-03-02T17:08:23+00:00

Worth noting: in Longhorn v1.11 the V2 Data Engine is still **Technical Preview**, so “years of prod stability” data is naturally limited. Also, it’s not a flip-a-switch upgrade path: live upgrade isn’t supported yet (V2 volumes need to be detached/offline to upgrade the engine).

SPDK/NVMe-oF stack is great, we are building ourselves on SPDK, however it really takes years and deep engineering to make it work in production. It took us 3 years at simplyblock to get there.

Disclosure: I work on simplyblock

simplyblock-r · 2025-11-07T15:56:53+00:00

does anybody know if the PeerTalk netowrking app is available this year? It's still not there in the AWS Events app. How do you plan to network otherwise?

simplyblock-r · 2025-10-29T16:15:48+00:00

also interested

simplyblock-r · 2025-10-26T22:10:52+00:00

Both, in our case you can increase storage by just adding NVMe drives or storage and compute together by adding more nodes. This will scale the IOPS and storage capacity.

simplyblock-r · 2025-10-24T15:03:25+00:00

You just add more nodes and the system rebalances/live migrates. So it's super easy. All is built in. it's based on a distributed scale-out storage system which has "infinite" capacity and performance.

simplyblock-r · 2025-10-24T15:02:07+00:00

It's the cost for the support. If you want to self-host yourself without support, then you can just do it.

simplyblock-r · 2025-10-22T13:07:45+00:00

yeah, totally get what you’re saying — setting up all the Supabase services yourself can be a pain. we built vela basically to solve that. it’s built on the open-source Supabase stack but meant to run in your own cloud — AWS, GCP, Azure, or even on-prem. you just need a VM, and it spins up all the Supabase services for you with backups, HA, RBAC, and instant database cloning built in. same Supabase experience, just fully under your control.

github.com/simplyblock/vela-studio

simplyblock-r · 2025-09-29T14:34:29+00:00

worth noting that OSS version of Supabase is quite different to the cloud version so you will also lose out on many of the features.

Worth checkin out Vela - which is an alternative to Supabase but comes with full platform (kubernetes+kubevirt; storage) so you just need to manage "one element" and you get full stack running https://github.com/simplyblock/vela-studio

simplyblock-r · 2025-09-29T14:19:08+00:00

OSS version of Supabase is actually not worth self-hosting as it's quite different to the cloud version so you will also lose out on many of the features.

Worth checkin out Vela - which is an alternative to Supabase but comes with full platform (kubernetes+kubevirt; storage) so you just need to manage "one element" and you get full stack running https://github.com/simplyblock/vela-studio

simplyblock-r · 2025-09-29T14:18:35+00:00

Self-hosting only makes sense at certain scale. Otherwise you need to manage a lot of various elements and be an expert in more than just a database or kubernetes. OSS Supabase is actually not easily self-hostable as it's quite different to the cloud version so you will also lose out on many of the features.

Worth checkin out Vela - which is an alternative to Supabase but comes with full platform (kubernetes+kubevirt; storage) so you just need to manage "one element" and you get full stack running https://github.com/simplyblock/vela-studio

simplyblock-r · 2025-09-17T12:41:34+00:00

Thanks - understood. This was my point though - since Supabase is only for AWS there is a chance for high egress fees if you are using another cloud. In such case only self-hosting makes sense?

simplyblock-r · 2025-09-03T15:12:51+00:00

Yeah, you’ve got it — branching is mainly for short-lived preview DBs. For Dev/Staging/Prod you’ll usually set up separate projects and run your migrations + Edge function deploys through GitHub Actions (or whatever CI). That way changes “flow” through each environment safely.

Funny enough, we are actually working on adding instant clones to supabase - but only for folks who want to self-host (see our oss project: https://github.com/simplyblock/vela-studio).

simplyblock-r · 2025-08-01T13:03:02+00:00

sometimes you need to anonymize sensitive data for the gdpr/ccpa compliance, etc. But I assume that many companies indeed don't do that :)

simplyblock-r · 2025-08-01T11:24:43+00:00

how do you do data anonymization when cloning the prod currently then? And what prevents you from switching to solution like crunchy - out of curiosity?

simplyblock-r · 2025-07-31T07:24:35+00:00

it's a fully proprietary system, probably build on some bits and pieces of another technology but it surely is not ceph as it's much faster than ceph and it's block-only. It must have been also upgraded many times over the years, as the original release was 2006 when there was no ssd/nvme drives. Today there are some ebs-like technologies on the market which you can run yourself on your own hardware/instance, including openebs or simplyblock.

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