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How to convince your bearded IT manager to switch to Amazon Web Services
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoWhat is this? Why does it presume all young developers would be so naive as to think the cloud is the de facto correct approach? Why does it (offensively) characterize “long beard” IT managers as brittle and seemingly incapable of basic cost-effectiveness and feature value analysis to inform trade-off evaluation? > “VP Bob has tasked you with convincing Long Beard to switch to AWS for their flagship product.” Why is someone “tasking” someone with “convincing” someone about something that should just be a dispassionate, brass tacks decision made through the analysis of trade-offs? I guess young hipsters wearing collared shirts are better at mature trade-off based decision making for investing in tech infrastructure than people who have built whole careers on constantly staying sharp on all the latest new hype to ensure they can keep making good trade-off decisions? I guess “Long Beards” can’t do basic unit cost arithmetic? I guess never, ever in the history of computing infrastructure did anyone devise a way to dynamically respond to spikes in traffic other than by using AWS, which apparently always saves you money?