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We are probably looking at the new future in which Cloud computing == Mainframes of the 50s~80s and fewer and fewer people even know how to run the whole scene
by markus_zhang 5y ago
We are probably looking at the new future in which Cloud computing == Mainframes of the 50s~80s and fewer and fewer people even know how to run the whole scene on-premise. People who got into cloud computing early (mostly by luck) get to win big bucks and better life styles while others try to dispel the magic from left and right.
- walrus01 5y agoultimately, though, somebody has to own, house and run those mainframes, so it's just abstracting the work away to some other group of people. lots of people made careers out of running mainframes and minicomputers in the 1955-1985 time frame. in the case of things like aws, azure, etc, it's just a lot more centralized in a smaller number of gargantuan companies.
- markus_zhang 5y agoSince the future is pretty much set, I think it's more relevant to try to obtain skills (albeit more difficult to obtain because fewer companies have them) and jump into the wagon.