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Not OP, but I can answer - also was very happy with Linode for boxes, but there's a lot more than just boxes these days - queues, streaming, metrics, monitoring
by abofh 5y ago
Not OP, but I can answer - also was very happy with Linode for boxes, but there's a lot more than just boxes these days - queues, streaming, metrics, monitoring, containers, etc. Once an application moves from 'runs on a fixed number of boxes' to 'autoscaling, automatic healing/recovery and distributed databases', the overhead of DIY gets high (and I'm paid to do that!).
My clients pay a fairly high premium for AWS because it allows them to move _faster_, not that it's _cheaper_.
- dielll 5y agoare you a devops or SRE?
- abofh 5y agoDepends on the day of the week - literally. For one client, I wear the devops hat, enabling developers, automating CI pipelines, etc. For another, my role is more "experience in the room", telling you 'no, you really don't want to do that, here's your risks, here's your tradeoffs, here's a better way'. The jobs both derive out of a very similar set of tools and expertise, it's typically the client that decides what hat I'm wearing.