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Counterpoint: These issues still exist, you just lose visibility into them by putting someone else in between. And usually, the someone else is big enough that
by ori_b 8y ago
Counterpoint: These issues still exist, you just lose visibility into them by putting someone else in between. And usually, the someone else is big enough that you're not a priority.
- nemonemo 8y agowith limited resource, you have to choose to balance between the stability or more control over your infra. IMO, small companies can't afford both, but also likely they would not need both at that size.
- rhizome 8y agoB.S. I was solo IT for a 50+ppl company, on a three-person team with a CIO/DBA and a data manager. I supported a full Windows/Exchange LAN with heavy printing needs, tape backups, internal/external infrastructural services and webservers with LOB java webapps, remote users, etc. Through all this I learned Perl from scratch, rearchitected the business systems (hardware) and reduced their production time by like 90% (two weeks to two days) with zero downtime (primordial blue-green, as it turns out), and wrote a completely new ETL flow with my new Perl skills. From four servers under a table to four racks, SaaS architecture is exceedingly simple next to all this, and the company spent probably around $10K/mo all told, maybe up to $20k while I was buying hardware. Maybe you simply haven't seen this kind of operation in action before?