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Cool, so you can hire one additional engineer. Are you sure your bare metal setup will occupy less than a single engineer’s time?
by 4death4 3y ago
Cool, so you can hire one additional engineer. Are you sure your bare metal setup will occupy less than a single engineer’s time?
- VBprogrammer 3y agoI'm not so sure it's a zero sum kind of thing. Yes, it seems likely that they are paying at least one full time employee to maintain their production environment. At the same time, AWS isn't without it's complications, there are people who are employed specifically to babysit it.
- 4death4 3y agoSure people need to babysit AWS resources, but those resources still exist and need babysitting. The bare metal approach is purely additive. E.g. if you need someone to babysit EKS, then you also need someone to babysit your bare metal k8s setup, but likely the bare metal k8s setup is even more work.
- r2_pilot 3y agoHa, while I'd work for that salary, even half of it would almost double what I make as a sysadmin. I guess I work here for the mission. Plus I don't have to deal with cloud services except for when the external services go down. Our stuff keeps running though.
- 4death4 3y agoI’m including overhead in that number. FWIW I know many ICs earning over double that number, not even including overhead.
- r2_pilot 3y ago>FWIW I know many ICs earning over double that number, not even including overhead. Keep rubbing salt lol I live in a low cost area though. It's even pleasant some times of the year.
- dzikimarian 3y agoAWS was operated by holy ghost I assume?
- byyll 3y agoThey can fire the "AWS engineer".