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I literally had one of the heads of a crucial flight system project loudly exclaim to me in front of the senior managers. "It's serverless - there is no server!
by ionwake 5y ago
I literally had one of the heads of a crucial flight system project loudly exclaim to me in front of the senior managers. "It's serverless - there is no server!"
To which I honestly, just kept my mouth shut and stood aside.
- dec0dedab0de 5y agoTo which I honestly, just kept my mouth shut and stood aside. I can never keep my mouth shut in these situations. Sometimes it leads to promotions, but I suspect it puts a ceiling on how high I can climb the corporate ladder.
- ionwake 5y agoI just figured there was some "short term" misunderstanding. As always I looked like an idiot but hey in a good place with good people youll all just move onto the next topic and know the details will work themselves out regardless who is right.
- ncphil 5y agoSpent the first 10 years of my IT career driving towards greater control over the systems we managed, because "the reason the service is down is that someone else (usually a vendor) didn't do their job" was never an excuse. The last 5-10 years I've found myself ceding more and more control to cloud service vendors (like Microsoft). Less work for me ("raise a premium case"). Less stress too ("they're working on it, nothing for us to do"). Now I finding myself hoping I'll be retired before the pendulum swings back again.
- kazen44 5y agoeverything old is new again. cloud computing is basically batch processing in the mainframe of yesterday from a functional standpoint.
- navaati 5y agoMaybe what he meant is "there is no server that we are responsible for", which is where the benefit lie for them. (not commenting on the "serverless" name for what used to be called "mutualised services"…)