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Finding people who can run infra at Spotify scale isn’t easy. Even if they could find those people, it tough to leave aws (by design). They could’ve been more

Finding people who can run infra at Spotify scale isn’t easy. Even if they could find those people, it tough to leave aws (by design). They could’ve been more careful about avoiding lock-in by building more on something like kube but most startups don’t have that foresight, and the expense of moving to on-prem is compounded even more when they have so much wrapped up in the aws ecosystem.

dijit 3y ago
They've already managed a switch from AWS to Google Cloud once in their past.
mrweasel 3y ago
> Finding people who can run infra at Spotify scale isn’t easy. You won't get any argument from me on that one, but it's worth remembering that it's also hard to find people who are able to run systems in the cloud cost effectively.
shiftpgdn 3y ago
TikTok found all of those people very quickly, they famously don't use a public cloud provider. Infra isn't magic.
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- hiddencost 3y ago
  TikTok has 100k employees and shoes shits money.
  - dijit 3y ago
    Not sure what "shoes shits money" means, but contextually they had $9.9B in revenue for the year 2022 and an operational expenditure of $9.4B. I believe this means they generated $500m for bytedance, but I can't find a good citation, bytedance itself generated $6B in profits though for the fiscal year 2022 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342785/bytedance-key-quarterly-financial-figures/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342785/bytedance-key-qu...
- cbozeman 3y ago
  > Infra isn't magic. No, but you're definitely dealing with the Arthur C. Clarke quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.