> software janitors don't understand what is required (and how little) to run on metal Quite. In the middle of lockdown a client needed to spin up some virtu

> software janitors don't understand what is required (and how little) to run on metal Quite. In the middle of lockdown a client needed to spin up some virtual machine instances to demo a product to a potential client. Previous boss had been pushing a cloud-only strategy using Azure and was itching to retire all the physical servers. Problem: can't spin up any kind of VM due to lack of Azure capacity. me: "Well, we have that [physical] dev server which we still have, we could spin up the demo stuff on that..." new boss: "Oh, cool. Great lateral thinking!" me: <wtf?> Demo done. Potential client happy. Boss happy.