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I think clouds have been trying to fool developers into thinking that cloud is easy. Don't feel bad, building a reliable infrastructure is incredibly hard. Ther
by f6v 6y ago
I think clouds have been trying to fool developers into thinking that cloud is easy. Don't feel bad, building a reliable infrastructure is incredibly hard. There're ton of services, some of them are redundant, and it takes a lot of time to discover all the nitty-gritty.
- jmchuster 6y agoMaybe it's messaging intended to be for grizzled old veterans going "look how we've taken the old complicated thing and given you powerful tools to allow you to manage it more easily with less steps" but then gets interpreted by neophytes as "look how easy it is for a complete beginner to come in and set up a complicated system".
- gk1 6y agoGreat observation. A lot of messaging for cloud products is comparing against legacy or dominant solutions. A beginner doesn’t have that reference point.
- ethbro 6y agoMessaging is written by marketing and sales departments. Employees there usually don't have depth of technical expertise or experience to draw from, and are incentivized to make the product sound as easy to use as possible. This combination results in {really complicated thing} -> {simple abstraction}. Ultimately, everyone internalizes this and starts forgetting that {simple abstraction} is actually {really complicated thing}. Happens with any popular technology. Networking, DB, cloud, ML. Unfortunately, this flies because the primary buyers are also non-technical.