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Cloud providers have done an incredible job creating an entire generation of people who have no knowledge of such things. $0.09/GB? I guess that’s just what it

Cloud providers have done an incredible job creating an entire generation of people who have no knowledge of such things. $0.09/GB? I guess that’s just what it costs. Expected when you’ve never looked at, considered, or even heard of things like peering and buying transit or even co-location. Enter 95th percentile billing on a gig port for $500/mo or whatever… Same goes for hardware. Want to watch something glorious? Take someone who has only ever used VMs, etc in big cloud and give them even a moderate spec new bare metal server. The performance melts their brains. Then they realize the entire thing - colo, servers, bandwidth, even staff is a fraction of the cost.

api 3y ago
A big part of the problem is that software development has wrapped itself around cloud native. Sure that metal server has brain melting performance for nothing, but try provisioning it or running it. Nobody knows how and we are dependent on stacks like K8S that require an ops team to run. The industry really found a way to stop the downward cost spiral of personal computing and bring everyone back into mainframe. Moore’s Law is not dead but you no longer see the benefits. The difference is just pocketed by cloud providers who will use the gains to pack more low performing VMs onto less hardware.
- sleepydog 3y ago
  Maybe oxide can pull the needle back in the other direction -- cloud should not be the default choice for every company