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Building and operating your own car out of simple components is not simpler than buying a car off the shelf. Operating a bunch of simple low-level infrastructu
by flanked-evergl 2y ago
Building and operating your own car out of simple components is not simpler than buying a car off the shelf.
Operating a bunch of simple low-level infrastructure yourself is not simpler than buying the capabilities off the shelf.
- boesboes 2y agoApples and oranges. I'd say it is more like: Using a trolley to move some stuff across the street is more simple than using a fleet of drones.
- flanked-evergl 2y agoRunning your own Postgres on your own server — implementing and testing your own backups, optimizing your own filesystem, managing encryption keys, managing upgrades, etc — is not simpler than using Google Cloud SQL, which does all of this for you at an SLA you will not be able to achieve if you will be focusing on your business, which is what you should do as a startup. Certainly you should not be running your own K8S cluster, but using Google Cloud Run is simpler than keeping your own server running. Even using Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine with autopilot is simpler than keeping your own server running.