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I think there is some reckoning of cloud service providers coming(assuming logical actors...). I was doing some contract work for a small place that had a GCP
by citizenpaul 2y ago
I think there is some reckoning of cloud service providers coming(assuming logical actors...). I was doing some contract work for a small place that had a GCP Bigtable that was costing $11k+ per month for some reports that were based on data from a 375MB !!! mysql db into big-table for the reports to run.
They hired some out of school data scientist to do reports and they were doing crazy ineffective things with the tiny dataset. Wanted me to fix it for pennies tomorrow and I declined.
- remus 2y agoNot that I disagree with your overall point, but I don't think this > I was doing some contract work for a small place that had a GCP Bigtable that was costing $11k+ per month for some reports that were based on data from a 375MB !!! mysql db into big-table for the reports to run. Is a good example. It's just a badly architected system, and you'd have exactly the same problem if you were running the same thing on a massively over provisioned on premise db.
- citizenpaul 2y agoI think its a perfect example that cloud providers are profiting on a unsustainable scheme. They rely on their services papering over (literally with money) lack of skill/knowlege of their customers. This tactic either kills the customer or creates someone that is desperate to no longer be your customer.
- bobby_the_whal 2y agoPeople are getting dumber by the hour. It's sustainable. When I design computing systems, I am like "what's the point?", if there is nobody with a brain around to maintain it. The cloud allows companies to have services they could never ever maintain themselves long after I am dead. We are going full Idiocracy from what I can tell. You sound way too optimistic, but I am guessing you are still young.