I stopped reading, frankly, at... > I’ve now worked with “The Cloud” for long enough to see that there’s still a long way to go before it becomes materially be

I stopped reading, frankly, at... > I’ve now worked with “The Cloud” for long enough to see that there’s still a long way to go before it becomes materially better than, say, the oldschool method of renting a couple of servers Lol, it takes a lot of hubris to assume you're the only person, or one of few persons, who understands how the rest of us have been conned. I'm not getting into a debate about the hundreds of ways our infrastructure on Google cloud is "materially better" than "renting a couple of servers." It ought to be sufficient for persons of humility and sense to know that we're also smart people with experience, and we continue to re-examine these decisions and run our stuff in the cloud because, yeah, it's materially better. And for those lamenting that software engineering is "fashion driven", welcome to humans. To some extent we're all stumbling forward in the fog, and the sound of other footsteps nearby is comforting.