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So before we had an IT team that would maintain the bare metal servers. Now we need "Cloud Engineers" to maintain the cloud infrastructure working properly. I d

So before we had an IT team that would maintain the bare metal servers. Now we need "Cloud Engineers" to maintain the cloud infrastructure working properly. I don't know if the argument of externalize the maintenance of the servers is valid since the complexity of the cloud services is just increasing everyday.

jononor 7y ago
True for those that go for Kubernetes etc straight away. If you just have a few apps to run and put it on a PaaS like Heroku, things are pretty manageable as a side-thing for the regular software developers. No dedicated team, or even person, needed.
- jrumbut 7y ago
  When your infrastructure is too simple, you have simple regrets. When your infrastructure is too exotic, you get exciting, bleeding edge regrets. This is my view based on the work I've done. I like the ability to dispense with capacity planning or dealing with power supplies and fire suppression you get from cloud hosting, but when in any doubt I set up what I need using VMs (be those droplets or EC2 instances or whatever). I like to imagine that I've avoided wasting weeks by wasting a few hours here and there.