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You have to be able to beat the cloud locally to make doing so make sense. AWS et al. set the bar and it’s difficult to beat them with your local infrastructure
by colechristensen 3y ago
You have to be able to beat the cloud locally to make doing so make sense. AWS et al. set the bar and it’s difficult to beat them with your local infrastructure.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoThey have 10000 engineers working 50 hours a week to keep their cloud running. The thing works on the back of very hard work from very smart people.
- colechristensen 3y agoYou don't need that much to have a cloud with several 9's of uptime. If you've never done the work or been around it, the difficulty becomes a bit mythologized.
- thrixton 3y agoSure, but to a certain extent, that’s survivorship bias. It’s very easy to run something with several 8’s of uptime if you’re not careful. AWS has good patterns to guide you into the pit of success.
- peteradio 3y agoIf the thing you are trying to do isn't very complex then beating Cloud is not that difficult. Many small companies just don't need it and moving to it adds cost and complexity for what?