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Do you also grow your own food to avoid the overhead of paying farmer and grocer?
by lupire 4y ago
Do you also grow your own food to avoid the overhead of paying farmer and grocer?
- seydor 4y agoPeople do cook instead of eating out . Analogies are not problem-solvers, and it's a false dichotomy because owning is not the only alternative to the cloud
- solardev 4y agoMost home cooks and restaurants don't grown or transport their own food. Even at a farm to table type place there's often different people doing the different work. What's wrong with letting the specialists handle logistics so you can focus on business logic instead of basic piping?
- georgyo 4y agoI think growing food is the wrong analogy, and cooking is better. Growing food is more like designing and manufacturing servers. Cooking is more like taking these goods and putting them to use. There are plenty of places that host their own servers, including people that have these servers in their home or office. But far fewer produce these machines. You could also say that cooking food is dumb. What's wrong with having professionals chefs do it? But that also doesn't take into account the added costs which makes it unfeasible for most.
- mcspiff 4y agoThe major cloud providers are designing their own servers, so we’re back at “growing your own food”.
- mahkeiro 4y agoThey are not doing it because it provides an advantage to their customer but because it allow them to differentiate (and lock people).
- georgyo 4y agoMcDonald's owns their own farms. They are big enough that controlling their supply chain is very important. Facebook does not use cloud providers and designs their own servers. The very large compute uses and cloud providers have incentives to grow their own food. Doing so can save them a few percent at scale. That savings is both not passed on to you and even if it was is not significant at small to medium scales.
- seydor 4y agowhat 's 'wrong' is that farmers and grocers don't have AWS's enormous profit margins. So now the market is looking for more efficient solutions
- hotpotamus 4y agoAs far as I know, none of my farmers and grocers are building penis rockets and flying them to space, so they might be working with a bit lower margins than AWS.
- dntrkv 4y agoYou do realize there are billionares in the food / agriculture business too, right?
- forgetfreeman 4y agoSounds like the criticism is broadly applicable then.
- hotpotamus 4y agoCertainly, but none as rich as Bezos and so their metaphorical phalluses take less impressive forms. I'm sure he'll be happy to give them a ride at least.
- kavalg 4y agoyes, and not for the cost savings, but for the quality that I can't get at any commercial farmer