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Problem is that all those systems are proprietary to individual clouds. Congratulations folks! We undid several decades of progress and went back to the 1960s
by api 2y ago
Problem is that all those systems are proprietary to individual clouds.
Congratulations folks! We undid several decades of progress and went back to the 1960s and 1970s when software can only run on the specific mainframe for which it was written.
- ThunderSizzle 2y agoWhich is why I don't write for the cloud. My personal stuff goes into a dedicated linux server setup with docker compose, and my work stuff is all hosted on windows servers. I'd prefer switching those windows servers to Linux, but we're too integrated with Microsoft at this point.
- api 2y agoIt’d be easier to swap those Windows servers out for Linux than it is to migrate the typical cloud native application from one cloud to another. The cloud is the most closed, most locked in, most rent extraction oriented computing paradigm since the pre-minicomputer mainframe era. It’s really a return to that era. Computing tends to cyclically reinvent wheels. I suppose next we will reinvent minis, micros, LANs, etc.
- threecheese 2y agoI think you’ve stumbled on the solution there - *something* happened between the 70s and today to address that thing from the 1960s, and it was motivated by capital-seeking. There’s a high probability that it will happen again, and if it does not then it’s likely the market didn’t demand it. Or, the world is just one big corporation and we’re all screwed. One of those.