spinning

At that point everyone inside the company is spinning the cog and inertia takes over.

That just means spinning up a new container every time the user visits.

This required a lot of disk seeks on spinning disks and unfortunately file flushing could not be disabled..

Buying a box with spinning rust and modest display quality was a purchasing department decision.

The shifted perspective on that spinning product animation gives it a bit more impact.

If that's actually true, it's way more valuable than spinning off cash.

And my company is already happy enough with spinning up VMs.

And her discussion of Reddit is little better; spinning an employment dispute about which very little is known into, again, some sign of major change.

It basically alerts you when a service posts a status update so you aren't spinning your wheels trying to figure out what's wrong with your app.

In 2000, disk prices were circa $10/GB [1]; now we're looking at $0.50/GB of zippy SSD [2] or $0.03/GB of spinning rust [3].

Quite disappointed when I saw it was just colored bands spinning.

I would argue no - what would be the difference between him spinning up VMs and handing off the credentials and hosting a public web service on it?

A proper "spinning" backup is an immutable journaling system that can't be trimmed except via extremely secure methods (e.g.

Hard to get anything without a "server not responding" error or a seemingly-perpetually spinning wheel...

"there is a star orbiting the Earth, it will keep orbiting" and "the Earth is spinning near to a star, and will keep spinning"), as well as to all (computationally) complicated explanations (eg.

Turns out spinning up an idle "production" RDS instance costs $800/mo which I just found out when receiving my first month's bill.

Spinning hard drives, because of the seek penalty, have pretty poor random read performance but fairly good sequential read.