If you click on his LinkedIn and see his experience I think you can see why he thinks cloud isn't worth it in favor of running everything on a single server and

If you click on his LinkedIn and see his experience I think you can see why he thinks cloud isn't worth it in favor of running everything on a single server and saying things like don't worry about back ups. Being relatively new to the industry and never spending more then a year at a company you will never suffer the consequences of architecting something poorly. Cloud or not, I think depends on your unique circumstances. Just becasue you can apt install everything once doesn't necessarily mean you should.