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How about you give some specifics of things that need constant fiddling in the cloud but are free on bare metal?

• andrewstuart 2y ago
  Well its a good point, it's my feeling at the moment. I think it would be interesting to do a systematic study of the time required for each.
  • chuckadams 2y ago
    In a cloud environment, I turn a few knobs and I can command an absurd amount of compute power, have it autoconfigured with all kinds of service discovery and whatnot. Things that would have taken weeks to months to build in a physical datacenter. Some people take that spare time to train as architecture astronauts I guess, and overcomplicate everything with all kinds of fiddly layers and microservices. I get it, it's fun to play with new toys. Doesn't mean the toys are bad, they're just not necessarily ready for production on day 1.
    • andrewstuart 2y ago
      My experience on multiple cloud projects over many years is endless fiddling and problem solving and spaghetti.
      • MaKey 2y ago
        That's because it's easy to get started with one of the hundreds of services available in the cloud and before you know it your cloud project is using 50 of them that depend on each other.