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> Eh, everything can be automated just as well on bare metal. Right, but that's not free. Anything can be automated to match the level of commercial cloud pro
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> Eh, everything can be automated just as well on bare metal.
Right, but that's not free.
Anything can be automated to match the level of commercial cloud providers given sufficient time and money, but it's far from free.
It's easy to underestimate engineering costs when they're hidden behind a fixed annual salary, but once you're looking at the cost/benefit analysis and actually accounting for all the time spent managing bare metal, it's not a good tradeoff for small or even medium size companies.
- colechristensen 5y agoPeople universally build big complicated systems around cloud providers which are equally not free. Unless you are doing something extremely basic, this is what gets done, with a good deal of experience it seems the complexity of what people do to manage and automate cloud providers is more or less equal to what they do to manage bare metal hardware well.