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"Stack Overflow no longer has any physical datacenters or offices; we are fully in the cloud and remote!" Am I misunderstanding something here? They're just tr
by southernplaces7 1y ago
"Stack Overflow no longer has any physical datacenters or offices; we are fully in the cloud and remote!"
Am I misunderstanding something here? They're just transferring from a physical datacenter owned and managed directly by them, to a small rented/leased part of those owned and managed by someone bigger. Since digital data can't just exist in a magical, airy fairy realm, it has to physically be somewhere either way.
Wouldn't it have been safer to control their own physical servers, considering how they mention protecting user information?
- datadrivenangel 1y agoIt means that Stack Overflow as a company doesn't need to think about the exact location, except in so far as they need the actual operator to satisfactorily assert that it's secure and operating in the right jurisdiction with enough backup redundancies.
- adityaathalye 1y agoAs a Private Equity holding, it's safer to outsource regulatory/compliance/security risk and liability to a reputable third party, where reputable is the proverbial "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" of the cloud era.