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This sounds like classic devops/cloud snake oil. I wonder what industry pays your bills? * The most businesses/always on reasoning appeals to executive decisio

This sounds like classic devops/cloud snake oil. I wonder what industry pays your bills? * The most businesses/always on reasoning appeals to executive decision makers and rolls down hill to the technical people who are best educated to make the decision. Many people who believe that you can cut cost by sizing workloads end up racing their own models when it doesn't scale financially or computationally over time. * What is so difficult about hardware? The cost of forgetting how to deal with it will be much higher in the long run. * Yes, monopolies are healthy.

pbalau 8y ago
> Yes, monopolies are healthy. Seems all 3 major cloud providers, aws, google and azure, are providing facilities to run docker containers. Seems Digital Ocean is getting there too. Hardly a monopoly, init? > What is so difficult about hardware? All of it. This is knowledge my company doesn't have and there is no point in investing in accuiring this knowledge at this time, since we have an easier solution. Not to mention that if we decide going bare metal is the way to go, we can do that later. > The most businesses [...] I think my english is failing me, I don't really understand this paragraph. > This sounds like classic devops/cloud snake oil. I wonder what industry pays your bills? Not the snarky remarks industry...
- romeisendcoming 8y ago
  Let me assist you with your English by being (over) explicit and adding overt punctuation to outline the objectionable excerpt. -- The '..most businesses/always on..' reasoning appeals to executive decision makers and rolls down hill to the technical people who are best educated to make the decision. Many people who believe that you can cut cost by sizing workloads end up racing their own models when it doesn't scale financially or computationally over time. -- All of hardware is too hard until (evidently) you run out of options from 'ze cloud' and you live in a PC bubble that doesn't like snark. Noted. You sound like a senior SV architect.

pbalau 8y ago

> Yes, monopolies are healthy. Seems all 3 major cloud providers, aws, google and azure, are providing facilities to run docker containers. Seems Digital Ocean is getting there too. Hardly a monopoly, init? > What is so difficult about hardware? All of it. This is knowledge my company doesn't have and there is no point in investing in accuiring this knowledge at this time, since we have an easier solution. Not to mention that if we decide going bare metal is the way to go, we can do that later. > The most businesses [...] I think my english is failing me, I don't really understand this paragraph. > This sounds like classic devops/cloud snake oil. I wonder what industry pays your bills? Not the snarky remarks industry...

romeisendcoming 8y ago
Let me assist you with your English by being (over) explicit and adding overt punctuation to outline the objectionable excerpt. -- The '..most businesses/always on..' reasoning appeals to executive decision makers and rolls down hill to the technical people who are best educated to make the decision. Many people who believe that you can cut cost by sizing workloads end up racing their own models when it doesn't scale financially or computationally over time. -- All of hardware is too hard until (evidently) you run out of options from 'ze cloud' and you live in a PC bubble that doesn't like snark. Noted. You sound like a senior SV architect.