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I hope the world realizes that clouds are not just fluffy white things in the blue sky, but can create destructive storms too, with wind, rain and so on. Make
by justsaysmthng 11y ago
I hope the world realizes that clouds are not just fluffy white things in the blue sky, but can create destructive storms too, with wind, rain and so on.
Make sure your infrastructure is ready to weather such storms - have local backups and fallbacks, make sure your code is available even if github (or the Internet) goes down.
The more I hear 'cloud', the more I try to depend only on tools that work offline.
- eric001 11y agoMetaphors like that only makes it even more confusing. It's a marketing scam, let's call it for what it is. Servers. They are servers.
- blowski 11y agoThere can be difference between hosting on bare metal boxes and hosting on cloud providers. If you are connecting different services (message queues, databases, storage, transcoding), and spinning up and down instances based on current demand and spot prices, then cloud hosting is totally different. On the other hand, if you are just renting a couple of dedicated cloud instances, then yeah - they're just (virtualized) servers.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYeah. The problem is, "cloud" now means both of the things you described and then some. Probably the best definition corresponding to present usage of this word would be "not on localhost". (Because yeah, if I host a Dropbox clone on my Raspberry Pi sitting on the wardrobe, I have my files "in the cloud" now.) We need a new word for automated, dynamic allocation/deallocation/management of remote instances for various services. Something that would differentiate it from buying a VPS.
- blowski 11y agoAgreed. Amongst non-technical people, 'in the cloud' just means 'somewhere on the internet'. For example, if I backup my iPhone onto iTunes on my laptop then that's not on the cloud, but if backup to iCloud then it's on the cloud. I guess it's frustrating that cloud means quite different things depending on the context, but I guess that's true of a lot of language.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIt's one of the most successful marketing scams I've ever seen - the whole tech world bought it, and here I was thinking at least engineers are mostly bullshit-proof.
- rootlocus 11y agoWe have a sticker for this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVKwDixXAAAmRaI.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVKwDixXAAAmRaI.jpg
- taneq 11y agoCloud have silver linings. They also evaporate or blow away without warning.
- robodale 11y agoWell, then you need RainCloud.io™!! It's the cloud-based offline tool storage platform that gives you access to your offline tools...from the cloud!!