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As a electronics/firmware engineer, is there a dummies resource than covers this concept of a "cloud"?
by person_of_color 7y ago
As a electronics/firmware engineer, is there a dummies resource than covers this concept of a "cloud"?
- teddyh 7y agohttps://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComp...
- pas 7y agoBesides the completely valid GNU link, the important bits are: - the cloud is just a bunch of computers, managed by someone. either you (on-premise private cloud) or by someone else as a SaaS - building, operating, managing, administering, maintaining a cloud is hard (look at the OpenStack project, it's a "success", but very much a non-competitor, because you still need skilled IT labor, there's no real one-size-fits all, so you need to basically maintain your own fork/setup and components - see eg what Rackspace does) - it's a big security, scalability and stability problem thrown under the bus of economics (multi-tenant environments are hard to price, hard to secure and hard to scale; shared resources like network bandwidth and storage operations-per-sec make no sense to dedicate, because then you need dedicated resources not shared - which is of course just allocated from a bigger shared pool, but then you have to manage the competing allocations)