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I worked at a place that had a large, underutilized data center. The DevOps team was stuck in the past and operated too slowly to provision capacity when it was
by tootie 5y ago
I worked at a place that had a large, underutilized data center. The DevOps team was stuck in the past and operated too slowly to provision capacity when it was needed so a lot of it was just fallow. They had spent months and months working with a vendor to get these into a k8s fleet, but I never saw the outcome. The devs teams in my office were just throwing shit up on Azure or even Heroku and just not asking permission. We got substantial increases in revenue and the incremental cost of hosting was negligible.
- krab 5y agoI've been there as well (modulo cloud brand to which we moved). I understand this reason for moving to cloud but it makes me sad. It worked like this - you had to fill a form to request a VM. After a few emails (and days because time zones), you got a few years old RHEL VM without root access, but also without any real support from the ops organization. They tried to provide the generic cloud experience with VMs and failed.