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I like this writeup, informative and to-the-point. Today, the cloud isn’t about other people’s hardware. It’s about infrastructure being an API call away. Not
by louwrentius 2y ago
I like this writeup, informative and to-the-point.
Today, the cloud isn’t about other people’s hardware.
It’s about infrastructure being an API call away. Not just virtual machines but also databases, load-balancers, storage, and so on.
The cost isn’t the DC or the hardware, but the hours spend on operations.
And you can abuse developers to do operations on the side :-)
- zelphirkalt 2y agoAnd then come the weird aspects of bad cloud service providers, like IONOS, who have broken OS images, a provisioning API, that is a bottleneck, where what other people do and how much they do can slow down your own provisioning and creating network interfaces can take minutes via their API and their customer services says "That's how it is, cannot change it.", and you get a very shitty web user interface, that desperately tries to be a single page app, yet has all the default browser functionality like the back button broken. Yet they still cost literally 10x what Hetzner cloud costs, while Hetzner basically does everything better. And then it is still also about other people's hardware in addition to that.