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Human capital side would disagree with that I think. You're assuming the organization which owns this small/medium web app has the personnel already on staff to
by badams2527 5y ago
Human capital side would disagree with that I think. You're assuming the organization which owns this small/medium web app has the personnel already on staff to handle such a thing.
If you're outsourcing that, you'd likely have to pay a boatload just for someone to be available for help, let alone the actual tasks themselves. Like you said, if you're on-prem and something goes down, you can do something. But you've gotta have the personnel to actually do something.
That said, I think you're spot-on as long as you have the skillset already.
- Nextgrid 5y ago> Human capital side would disagree with that I think I hear this argument a lot, but every startup I've been involved with had a full-time DevOps engineer wrangling Terraform & YAML files - that same engineer can be assigned to manage the bare-metal infrastructure.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> I hear this argument a lot, but every startup I've been involved with had a full-time DevOps engineer wrangling Terraform & YAML files - that same engineer can be assigned to manage the bare-metal infrastructure. Bare metal infrastructure requires a lot more management at any given scale. I mean, you can run stuff that lets you do part of the management the same as cloud resources, but you also have to then manage that software and manage the hardware.
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- bcrosby95 5y agoDefine "a lot". We colocate about 20 servers and on the average month, no one spends any time managing them. At all.
- Retric 5y agoYou still need to pay someone to manage AWS infrastructure. It’s possible to save money using AWS, but things often get more expensive.
- nostrebored 5y agoOf SMBs I’ve worked with, about 5% had a dedicated AWS engineer
- Nextgrid 5y agoMaybe non-tech businesses which I’m not very familiar with. But most startups absulutely have a dedicated DevOps engineer.