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Well, if you bill by the resources used, you really have no incentive to run an operation where building clean and resource-effective applications is easy, or w
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
Well, if you bill by the resources used, you really have no incentive to run an operation where building clean and resource-effective applications is easy, or where migrating to another platform is painless.
- throwaway894345 4y agoI mean, Amazon does a pretty good job of helping you write reasonably resource-efficient applications, and I’ve migrated from AWS to GCP and there wasn’t any particular lock-in that one wouldn’t have experienced in moving between a cloud provider and on prem or vice versa. Moreover, as it pertains to this post, AWS provides dozens of high-quality SDKs so you never actually have to know about this stuff. I’ve been using AWS for a decade and I’ve never known about how requests are formed.