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I wonder who tells the story that cloud computing has something to do with reducing complexity. In my world, cloud computing is a bout scalability and making th

I wonder who tells the story that cloud computing has something to do with reducing complexity. In my world, cloud computing is a bout scalability and making things as complex as they need to be to be scalable. This rarely means that complexity is being reduced.

didericis 6y ago
The simplicity of having one cloud based product rather than several native products built for different systems is an argument I’ve heard a lot.
- ratww 6y ago
  This is an advantage of the web platform, not exactly related to cloud. You can get this advantage with an on-premises web product, or with old school hosting.
  - didericis 6y ago
    Very true, just trying to explain the source of the “cloud reduces complexity” argument. There are a number of small operations that don’t want to manage all their own hardware, so cloud and web are conflated, and you get the web platform simplicity argument being used to justify a cloud platform.
twistedpair 6y ago
But doesn't cloud computing reduce complexity? I used to write my own SystemV boot scripts, service installation and discovery logic, round robin updating tooling, and much more to handle live app deploy/cut over. Now I have two dozen lines of YAML and GKE JustWorks™, deploying my services and taking care of everything I used to do with my bespoke scripts. My world is much simpler now.