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I feel like even without this, there's a fair argument to be made that Google is better at running hardware than most little guys are.
by notatoad 9y ago
I feel like even without this, there's a fair argument to be made that Google is better at running hardware than most little guys are.
- andrewstuart2 9y agoAnd it's not necessarily a bad thing, either. Economies of scale means that everybody can win by putting all your chips in one basket. The obvious caveats apply when said basket stands to gain from serving its own interests once all the chips are there. One example of that might include patching your own hardware while waiting to offer the same capabilities to others.
- Spooky23 9y agoAbsolutely. My wife is an amazing and talented baker. But... any number of bakeries are better at rolling out a quality consistent product at scale. Ditto with datacenters.
- kriro 9y agoIt's a very interesting trade off one faces. On the one hand I'm very concerned with hosting anything in the cloud, especially with U.S. based companies because +3-letter agency here+ (especially for ERP software). But on the other hand the realistic view has to be that my self hosted stack is likely way more insecure than any cloud stack even if I made a conscious afford to keep everything secure (and that's probably also true for companies with a decent number of dedicated IT security experts) so 3-letter agancy would have an easier time getting to the data if they wanted.