I think this sums it up: "a lot of the work you end up doing is not programming." Programmers will happily hire a lawyer or a receptionist, but will code thems

I think this sums it up: "a lot of the work you end up doing is not programming." Programmers will happily hire a lawyer or a receptionist, but will code themselves into a fury and invent programming languages to avoid admitting they suck at ops and should hire someone. Let's just call it what it is: the cloud is ego driven outsourcing. Nobody wants to admit they need an ops person, so they just pay for 1 millionth of an ops person every time someone visit their website.