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> but that was absolutely sufficient for many businesses. yes, but I am glad about how many job titles are obsoleted for many businesses due to how compute ins
by vmception 5y ago
> but that was absolutely sufficient for many businesses.
yes, but I am glad about how many job titles are obsoleted for many businesses due to how compute instances are managed.
much smaller organizations used to need a full blown database administrator or two, and other personnel dedicated to keeping the server up. or you were doing it all yourself and spending your time on that.
much higher barrier of entry than today where you have an untold number of computers spun up for you in an instant and a bunch of cached versions on yet more computers in the CDN and another process keeping those caches updated, with you just thinking its one single instance used because you're on the hobby plan.
- mywittyname 5y agoHonestly, it didn't seem to be that different back then than it is now. When I worked at smaller places, developers handled infrastructure and development. As the company grew, dedicated specialists came onboard to help. Today, at smaller places, developers handle the cloud infrastructure, and as the company grows, they bring on dedicated specialists to help. The biggest difference, I think, is that we have so many specialized products. We are no longer trying to figure out how to make a shoehorned relational DB scale, instead we start with a database designed for specific workloads.