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> the shift from old-school servers to rented cloud storage has made it tougher than ever to fund upgrades They do know that it's still possible to run old-sch
by missblit 8y ago
> the shift from old-school servers to rented cloud storage has made it tougher than ever to fund upgrades
They do know that it's still possible to run old-school servers, right? There must be some upside or need to switch to cloud computing, either that or people just get blinded by buzzwords.
Hard to say from the article. Anyone know why governments may switch to cloud despite the issues in the article?
- gambler 8y agoI don't know about governments, by at my last job the transition to cloud was driven mostly by: 1. The desire of some people to have AWS stuff on their resumes. 2. The optimistic belief that the same people who couldn't figure out how to manage normal servers in 10+ years will figure out how to design good serverless apps in a few month.
- coldacid 8y agoBecause they are very much blinded by buzzwords, and want to look like they're "with it" by choosing whatever seems the most advanced even if it would actually detract from the job at hand.
- linuxftw 8y agoGovernments are mostly administrative. Running your own servers is 'real work' which mostly gets contracted out. Used to be necessary to have your own servers because that's where the software your administrative people used ran. The government could build it's own power plants, and hire the employees to run them. Probably cheaper/easier to contract that out (eg, buy power from power company).