> The cloud is often just as complicated as running things yourself, and it's usually ridiculously more expensive. This was obvious to anyone who was willing t

> The cloud is often just as complicated as running things yourself, and it's usually ridiculously more expensive. This was obvious to anyone who was willing to do the maths from the beginning. One big reason for the success of the cloud that no one has talked about is that developers often have a disdainful view of the IT department and the operation people. So pushing DevOps, let them go around those people and have the instant gratification of getting all the computing resources they want when they want it immediately without going through the IT department and operation people. Ironically, some of those developers are starting to get sick of managing the operations and want to just go back to focusing on development. Thus, the pendulum swings back.