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Oh, have you ever worked at a traditional tech company? Bureaucracy, contracts, silly guidelines often lead to very stifled vendor lock in. Even if the whole te
by iforgotpassword 7y ago
Oh, have you ever worked at a traditional tech company? Bureaucracy, contracts, silly guidelines often lead to very stifled vendor lock in. Even if the whole tech department says. "hey we should go AMD" giving every manager involved enough time to make themselves important over the issue can cost you half a decade.
- endorphone 7y agoAt a pure tech company, moves across architectures and platforms is an absolute non-story unless the company is broken: Choose and implement hardware to achieve desired goals at the right price points. Reassess as the industry changes. That service you are talking to might be running on a Xeon Windows Server instance on vmware, or a Neoverse N1 Linux instance over KVM. Whatever was right. Cloudflare specifically say that they try to operate this way, and probably have since day, as does any competent tech company. It's more the tech-as-a-cost-center company that has such restrictions. The accounting shop or traditional bank where "We use X, Y and Z! We're an Intel and Dell company!", where the desktops are all running Windows 7.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoWe should maybe define pure and traditional better, but yes, I was mostly thinking companies which (heavily) rely on tech, but more as a commodity driving their actual business, and never tried to push the tech to its limits.