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> Your headcount requirements are not going to go down because of cloud. Depends on how big you are. I'm one person and I do a lot of things with the cloud th
by sneak 2y ago
> Your headcount requirements are not going to go down because of cloud.
Depends on how big you are. I'm one person and I do a lot of things with the cloud that I could not do if I had to rack servers (or even order dedicateds).
Same goes for small 5-10 person teams that are good with Terraform. I've seen some orgs punching waaaay above their weight given their size. Not possible without classic IaaS.
- lanstin 2y agoBeing able to put everything into (good) source with all the lessons we have about how to manage source code over time puts incredible power into teams that can handle it.
- otabdeveloper4 2y agoThat sort of thing is much easier to do with a standard k8s/ansible/whatever stack than having to juggle proprietary cloud provider stacks.
- throwaway29511 2y ago> do a lot of things with the cloud that I could not do if I had to rack servers It's not a binary choice between cloud and physical racks in a data center. There is a wide range of options. Companies like Hetzner enables you to click a button and get a dedicated instance, while Digitalocean can provide you with a VM. Both options are cheap and doesn't require much time. If you do this often, you probably also have an ansible setup to install the base software (like k8s or a simpler stack), you are ready to go within minutes. Just like you would have a terraform config for your cloud