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Work for a 30bn market cap company, all our stuff is built on AWS. Offices all around the globe. Not a single electrician on payroll. YMMV.
by shadowtree 3y ago
Work for a 30bn market cap company, all our stuff is built on AWS. Offices all around the globe. Not a single electrician on payroll.
YMMV.
- betaby 3y agoYou may call your company arrangement `electricityless` even! Like `serverless` - we don't use servers.
- mschuster91 3y ago> Not a single electrician on payroll. Directly, yes maybe. Many companies don't have in-house experts (and get shafted by vendors as a result, as they're lacking the competence required to assess the quality of work). But indirectly, they all have. In Germany, at least, you're required to have electrical appliances inspected by a licensed professional (an electrician or otherwise qualified person) at least every two years - most companies opt for using dedicated external companies, but you can also train someone for that task. On top of that come all the electricians hired by the landlords - the ones dealing with complaints and remodels, or servicing lifts, escalators, HVAC, datacenters, ...
- shadowtree 3y agoUtility is just an old term for "as a service". Electricity as a Service, which includes payments for expert maintenance. Thread is about AWS and merits of in-sourcing, which is not how the world operates. Anyways.