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Companies embrace cloud tech because it turns large capital budgets into operating budgets, and prevents dental implant companies or soda distributors from havi
by idlewords 3y ago
Companies embrace cloud tech because it turns large capital budgets into operating budgets, and prevents dental implant companies or soda distributors from having to figure out how to hire competent sysadmins.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoThis is the important thing. So many people in tech think of these solutions in terms of tech, the ease of use of the tech, and the cost of the tech. But the ultimate cost in everything is the cost of labor. On-premise solutions require on-premise administrators, with full time salaries (who are mostly sitting around waiting for work or problems to arise). It is far simpler and cheaper to contract the work out to a cloud provider and pay hourly for a tech's time. If you are a highly competent sysadmin you probably aren't working at a dental implant company. So the kinds of people non-tech companies hire are usually going to be lower quality and get paid less, increasing security risks
- theshrike79 3y agoCompetent sysadmins who don't let the production DNS expire for example [0]? =) Companies use the cloud because then they don't have to hire a dozen sysadmins to manage their servers, they can focus on building the actual product. If I can choose between having 12 developers who can manage AWS and having a rotation of 8 sysadmins wrangling in-house servers in three shifts and 4 developers, I'll always choose the one with more developers. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29873306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29873306
- datadrivenangel 3y agoReplace all your competent sysadmins with even more expensive cloud architects!
- thrixton 3y agoCloud architectures can and should be relatively simple. It’s also a once off (kind of), and there are very established patterns to follow.