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The 'cloud' always was - at its core - a mechanism to take your sovereignty away. Like the social media or IM walled gardens that you like. And like a lot of th
by pino82 2y ago
The 'cloud' always was - at its core - a mechanism to take your sovereignty away. Like the social media or IM walled gardens that you like. And like a lot of things that came up in the last ~15 years. Subscription models as well...
All that will not fail, because there are strong forces that explicitly want this to happen.
But it's always nice to hear that there are at least problems...
- anonylizard 2y agoYour power, water and gas supply also come from the 'cloud'. If anything, localized computing devices (Phones + PCs) are significantly more popular than localized power generation/water treatment (garage diesel generator/wells). Historically, the main economic impetus for centralized government, is to coordinate the construction of irrigation infrastructure. The more dependent a society is on one big river (Ancient China/Egypt), the more centralized it becomes.
- rollcat 2y agoWe need to first differentiation between "public compute cloud" (AWS, GCP, Azure) and "cloud services" (GMail, Dropbox, iCloud, etc). The fine article is concerned with the former exclusively, and I think mixing in the latter dilutes the point it's trying to make. So unless your personal homelab needs to be hyperscalar, you don't need a public cloud; your needs will be served perfectly by a $5/mo VPS/PaaS, and/or a LACK rack. Do companies need sovereignty? No, companies need to make money, that's their primary and main reason to exist. The choice of public cloud vs dedicated servers vs colocation vs on-prem vs etc amounts to whatever best fits your operating model. The public cloud was overhyped (like everything in tech), but smart companies chose the right tool to do the job.