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Physical servers (or devices) are next, obviously! IT is cyclical.

theRealMe 3y ago
Speaking of cyclical IT, my estimate is going “forward” to the terminal/mainframe-esque concept of simple and cheap “terminals” aka laptops that you use to log into a much beefier “mainframe” aka cloud workstation. I’m at a FAANGMULA and I’ve been using a cloud workstation from my cheap laptop as my daily driver for months now. The VM is so much higher-spec’d than what they would have bought me for a desktop. Just don’t look at the price if you plan to run it 24/7…
- ghaff 3y ago
  And for the mostly browser-based stuff I do, outside of multimedia and some development, I'm pretty much on a terminal (except we call it a browser) which I run from 2015-vintage Macs.
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- cranberryturkey 3y ago
  > FAANGMULA killin' me smalls.
  - jadtz 3y ago
    > FAANGMULA Only somebody who does not work at FAANG uses FAANGMULA, so why not just go with MULA.
MaanuAir 3y ago
They already are: with these on-prem versions of the common public clouds.
RobotToaster 3y ago
Wouldn't surprise me if RPi style single board computers do start making headway as "microservers". Instead of renting a VM or running docker containers you rent a small physical server for each service.
herbst 3y ago
Just recently moved all my services that don't need a 100% to a dedicated server instead of several cloud VMS running containers. It's cheaper, less overhead, simpler to configure and works just as well (so far)
ianai 3y ago
Clearly riscv servers you design from the CPU up (with some very helpful software). Only to be replaced by the N types of computers that typically wind up being designed somewhere around years 3-5. To later be replaced by those same systems in the cloud. Or of course world war 3 happens and the latest, greatest thing going in IT is “I mean I’m still alive, whatever that’s worth.” And making anything usable from whatever is found. Even a blinking LED becomes either neat or a way for a roving warboy to find/kill you.
Calamitous 3y ago
“Locally hosted cloud infrastructure!”
- screwturner68 3y ago
  Greenlake?

Speaking of cyclical IT, my estimate is going “forward” to the terminal/mainframe-esque concept of simple and cheap “terminals” aka laptops that you use to log into a much beefier “mainframe” aka cloud workstation. I’m at a FAANGMULA and I’ve been using a cloud workstation from my cheap laptop as my daily driver for months now. The VM is so much higher-spec’d than what they would have bought me for a desktop. Just don’t look at the price if you plan to run it 24/7…

ghaff 3y ago
And for the mostly browser-based stuff I do, outside of multimedia and some development, I'm pretty much on a terminal (except we call it a browser) which I run from 2015-vintage Macs.
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cranberryturkey 3y ago
> FAANGMULA killin' me smalls.
- jadtz 3y ago
  > FAANGMULA Only somebody who does not work at FAANG uses FAANGMULA, so why not just go with MULA.

MaanuAir 3y ago

They already are: with these on-prem versions of the common public clouds.

RobotToaster 3y ago

Wouldn't surprise me if RPi style single board computers do start making headway as "microservers". Instead of renting a VM or running docker containers you rent a small physical server for each service.

herbst 3y ago

Just recently moved all my services that don't need a 100% to a dedicated server instead of several cloud VMS running containers. It's cheaper, less overhead, simpler to configure and works just as well (so far)

ianai 3y ago

Clearly riscv servers you design from the CPU up (with some very helpful software). Only to be replaced by the N types of computers that typically wind up being designed somewhere around years 3-5. To later be replaced by those same systems in the cloud. Or of course world war 3 happens and the latest, greatest thing going in IT is “I mean I’m still alive, whatever that’s worth.” And making anything usable from whatever is found. Even a blinking LED becomes either neat or a way for a roving warboy to find/kill you.

Calamitous 3y ago

“Locally hosted cloud infrastructure!”

screwturner68 3y ago
Greenlake?