Dinesh Majrekar

CTO at @civocloud

Building the cloud and keeping the turtles happy

[Mark Boost @markboost]

Am I the only person who wants to publicly talk about hyperscaler cloud providers nickel and diming their customers?

Behind closed doors people constantly bemoan them, but publicly it seems as if nobody wants to criticise.

Years ago, when the concept of cloud was first devised, the promise was: lower costs and more flexible on-demand computing...a dream AWS originally sold to us!

In reality we've ended up in a world where a handful of giant providers lock businesses into their ecosystem. Once you're in, it's virtually impossible to get out unless you play by their rules...constant price increases, hidden fees, new charges for features that were previously free, and proprietary lock-in.

When will companies wake up to the inflated costs of hyperscalers and the damage it's doing to their business growth, especially when you add in the complexity involved in managing services with a hyperscaler.

Before the cloud, IT infrastructure spend was a mere fraction of the proportion that companies spend today. At the rate we're going, it's going to become a much bigger percentage than companies even spend on their staff – and it's all going to a handful of giant companies who globally pay low single figure tax % contributions.

Is this what cloud was meant to be?

At Civo, we're delivering on the original promise of cloud. We're committed to working for our customers and not with interests purely aligned to shareholders, no short-termism through nickel and diming to hit another quarter's earnings target!!!

It's about resetting the balance and delivering a cloud that is fair, equitable and open, which stays true to the original promise of the cloud, by supporting business growth and not hindering companies through escalating costs, vendor lock-in and other things that are taken from your control.

Change needs to happen...it's coming!

[Civo @CivoCloud]

We’re thrilled to reveal our keynote speaker for Navigate North America 2024 is none other than the Founder of Docker and now @Dagger_io, @solomonstre 💻

Save $100 on tickets by registering before Sunday with our early bird sale 👉 https://t.co/rnEMCI83yq

[Mark Boost @markboost]

BIG NEWS dropped this morning!

Check out my thoughts on the Ofcom report into anti-competitive practices in the cloud industry.

In particular Amazon and Microsoft have been called out.

[Civo @CivoCloud]

We have huge news! We’re excited to announce that we are coming to Austin, Texas, on February 20th & 21st, 2024, for Navigate NA 2024 🚨

To kick it off, we are now accepting CFPs! You can submit at > https://t.co/XhjSd7k3cs

We'll be sharing more info in the upcoming weeks 🚀

[Civo @CivoCloud]

We’re thrilled to reveal our latest keynote speaker for Navigate Europe 2023 is none other than Kubernetes pioneer, @KelseyHightower 💻

Save £100 on tickets by registering before Sunday with our early bird sale 👉 https://t.co/yXnC5Dp39g

[Civo @CivoCloud]

It's the news you've all been waiting for 👀

We can now reveal the full speaker line up for Civo Navigate Europe 2023. See who'll be joining us in London on September 5-6 👉 https://t.co/3JMsPCJEJ6

Save £100 if you register before the end of the week with our Early Bird sale!

[Civo @CivoCloud]

🤫 We have another keynote speaker ready to join us at Civo Navigate Europe 2023!

Do you want to make a guess at who it might be?
Here’s a clue…

This person has recently retired from a renowned tech company 👀

[Civo @CivoCloud]

🚨 Big Reveal! Our first Navigate Europe keynote speaker will be Pinterest's founding engineer & Reddit's first CTO, @MartyWeiner!

He'll be sharing his story and tech insights

Super early bird tickets end Friday, don't miss out

Click here to join us 👉 https://t.co/dMaHIEb1hk

[Civo @CivoCloud]

Ready for Civo Navigate round 2?

This time we are coming to London, England, on September 5th & 6th, 2023, to explore the latest trends and developments in cloud native technology

🔗 https://t.co/yXnC5Dp39g

Read on to find out more about the event 🧵

[Dinesh Majrekar @DMajrekar]

@AlexJonesax @alejandrojnm You can take it for a spin with Civo with this Kubeconfig. Just get your api token from https://t.co/07FMqnsorX

We’ll review the docs and make sure it’s clear how other providers can be added :)

Let us know how you get on!

[Civo @CivoCloud]

As we near the end of Civo Navigate, we wanted to say thank you to everyone involved in our first tech event in Tampa, Florida

We are grateful to all those that made this possible and created such a special event

Until next time, team Civo 💙

[Civo @CivoCloud]

On Wednesday, we will be joined by @markboost @DMajrekar & @SaiyamPathak as they discuss how you can reduce your cloud spend with any provider

Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from industry experts & gain valuable insights on how Civo can help: https://t.co/yZS7TUq0sH

[Civo @CivoCloud]

🚨 Get a Civo Navigate ticket for just $50 for Black Friday!

Be quick - this offer is limited to the first 50 code uses.

Add code "BLACKFRIDAYNAV50" when registering your ticket 👉 https://t.co/yXnC5Dp39g

[Dinesh Majrekar @DMajrekar]

@birthmarkbart @portainerio @ChristianLempa @DoKcommunity Thanks for the shout out @birthmarkbart

[Dinesh Majrekar @DMajrekar]

@ChristianLempa We heavily rely on PVCs and the automation that gives in our platform. The key thing we’ve found is to work with a tech / platform that has good support.

Shout out to the Mayastor project https://t.co/7Egg0zB45Z that we’ve run in anger and at scale.

[Dinesh Majrekar @DMajrekar]

@Marcus_Noble_ @CivoCloud @alexellisuk is correct, we upgrade the underlying k3s binary in place on each node in turn. Keeping an eye on node health along the way. Trade offs which ever way you go about it, so happy to take onboard feedback :)

[Civo @CivoCloud]

We've had a lot of last minute messages from people planning to submit a proposal for Civo Navigate, so we're extending deadline by a week.

The new CFP deadline for Navigate is October 18th! You can submit at > https://t.co/tR1LPYh92x

Thanks for all your submission so far!

[Civo @CivoCloud]

We’re thrilled to reveal our keynote speaker for Civo Navigate is none other than tech visionary and Apple co-founder @Stevewoz 🍏

We can't wait to see Steve kick off Civo Navigate in style. Find out how you or your business can get involved at https://t.co/yXnC5Dp39g

[Data on Kubernetes Community @DoKcommunity]

When it comes to choosing the right storage solution on K8s what comes first? Scalability, performance, or the right people to partner with?
Dinesh the CTO of @CivoCloud shared how they approached this issue and what factors influenced their decision.
Link-https://t.co/y7JfsPxFi7

[Dinesh Majrekar @DMajrekar]

@CivoCloud I can’t wait! This is going to be amazing