[Atlas-anchors-pilot] Provisional hardware specs for Atlas Anchors

[Daniel Karrenberg]

On 07.09.2012, at 11:18 , Randy Bush wrote:

>> I asked the team to spec a machine to run multiple services quite
>> possible isolated in VMs, but I could not say exactly which services
>> yet.
> 
> well, the latter probably explains a lot of the inflated spec.  with no
> constraint, they'll not want to fail, so will just spec the biggest
> feature-rich thing they think they can get approved.



Yes that is what I was saying. Thank you for repeating it.
Overspeccing in the face of uncertainty is not an engineering failure.
So no blame on the engineers. The failure is the too loose contraints set by management, i.e. myself.
Now with your input we can refine those constraints.

Daniel