The largest challenge was tuning the cards for best efficiency.
Next up is just tracking inventory, making changes to the system, etc... this is over 8k individual computers in multiple data centers.
We also added a different class of hardware which was blade based... which increased the individual computers significantly. Ended up with a very cool iPXE boot solution for that.
I also built some pretty cool software to manage it all. It runs on the concept that each machine is an individual worker that knows how to self-heal itself. Even just distributing the software to so many machines reliably, is a challenge.
Next up is just tracking inventory, making changes to the system, etc... this is over 8k individual computers in multiple data centers.
We also added a different class of hardware which was blade based... which increased the individual computers significantly. Ended up with a very cool iPXE boot solution for that.
I also built some pretty cool software to manage it all. It runs on the concept that each machine is an individual worker that knows how to self-heal itself. Even just distributing the software to so many machines reliably, is a challenge.
It has been a fun few years.