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We should totally have nice things. I hundred percent agree. But I have this nightmare that one day a cloud provider goes bankrupt because they can't understa
by phoehne 4y ago
We should totally have nice things. I hundred percent agree. But I have this nightmare that one day a cloud provider goes bankrupt because they can't understand why half their fleet won't boot. And as the go through the entire process, from the initial PXE boot to the full boot and so on, there are just too many ways things can break. They fix one 'issue' only to realize it wasn't the issue. Then the next, issue, and so on, but not coming up for days.
And the issue might even be completely out of their control in the proprietary, CPU vendor supplied blob, or the network OEM supplied blob, or the storage supplied blob, or the TPM blob, or the way they rolled certs (because everyone screws that up at some point), etc. etc. And the complexity isn't essential. It's a byproduct of short-term choices, compromises, lowest common denominator thinking, and a lack of risk taking on new approaches to the problem. This leads to systems we cannot reason over. Companies like 0xide computer are taking a stab at these kinds of problems.
- thwayunion 4y agoI do not have this worry about the biggest cloud providers, actually. I do have this worry about basically everything outside of the IT sector -- particularly the industrial and agricultural sectors.