>> I think there's a missing angle from the engineer's point of view... I'd always want to work on Plan C - cloud providers as suppliers of standard commodity i

>> I think there's a missing angle from the engineer's point of view... I'd always want to work on Plan C - cloud providers as suppliers of standard commodity infrastructure. Possibly in a managed way... tbray did address this point with a different question: So if I'm in technology leadership, one of my key priorities... is something along the lines of "How do I succeed in the face of the talent crisis?" I'll tell you one way: Go all in on a public-cloud platform and use the highest-level serverless tools as much as possible. You'll never get rid of all the operational workload. But every time you reduce the labor around instance counts and pod sizes and table space and file descriptors and patch levels, you've just increased the proportion of your hard-won recruiting wins that go into delivery of business-critical customer-visible features.