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I have built what was underneath — and then threw it away, because the managed-services vendor built it better, and the OpEx of paying them to manage it was les
by derefr 6y ago
I have built what was underneath — and then threw it away, because the managed-services vendor built it better, and the OpEx of paying them to manage it was less than the OpEx of paying myself to maintain it.
- o-__-o 6y agoThis has been the story repeated over the past 30 years
- airhead969 5y agoNot thirty years. 10-15. IT was a big industry that everyone did up until about 2010.
- o-__-o 5y agoI’ve been involved in IT for over 25 years, I’ve seen a lot :)
- airhead969 5y agoIt absolutely depends on scale. Smaller teams of better staff can sustain cloud infrastructure, especially if grabbing as many internal needs as possible so as to gather critical mass to make it pay for itself.