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I 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 t
by georgyo 4y ago
I 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.