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Would you mind giving an example of something that is easy in cloud but hard on prem (all I can think of is scaling up (down?) which seems kinda obviously hard)
by lifeisstillgood 3y ago
Would you mind giving an example of something that is easy in cloud but hard on prem (all I can think of is scaling up (down?) which seems kinda obviously hard)
- antonvs 3y agoScaling is definitely one, but another big category is just depending on other cloud services, whether it's message queues, managed databases, object storage, ML training pipelines, software-defined networking, whatever. In any of those cases, we either have a choice to implement and support some onprem alternative, require the customer to provide the necessary service locally (which is not particularly effective for all sorts of reasons), or simply disable features onprem. In the cloud, we get significant benefits from using managed services. Onprem, we not only lose those benefits, we have to pay an additional cost in terms of making our code support both environments and building out the deployment and support of the services in question. It's really exactly the same issues that make cloud attractive to businesses in the first place.