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Sure, but a lot of this isn't super hard. I worked on FlexiScale, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexiScale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexiScale. The Archi

Sure, but a lot of this isn't super hard. I worked on FlexiScale, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexiScale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexiScale. The Architecture of IaaS provider doesn't need to look massively different from k8s. - Node Agent that either listens or connects back to an API for instructions. - An API to request your workload. - Various decision daemons. IPAM, Block Storage, Etc. What's missing in Europe is a Culture of Tech Leadership and Investment. Case in point, I wrote or rewrote borderline 100% of an early European Cloud Provider, and I've never heard of nor been approached to work for another project like this. Even if one existed, they likely wouldn't come anywhere near offering a salary I'd be interested in, and leadership would almost certainly be full of people who haven't built a Cloud Provider before. ( This isn't so say I'm the most credible candidate in the market, but I have had salaried offers for IC in Meta and HFT in London. I'd have loved to build another cloud provider ( with more than a team of 3-5 ) but I've spent most of my career as a contractor interfacing with "cloud" teams offering things like vsphere, wondering where it all goes wrong. )

epolanski 1y ago
> What's missing in Europe is a Culture of Tech Leadership and Investment. Europe is really risk adverse, yet technology by its very nature require you to experiment and fail more than you succeed.
pyrale 1y ago
> What's missing in Europe is a Culture of Tech Leadership and Investment. Yeah... I wonder if that culture of investment comes from people all over the world giving money to US companies so they can invest. I guess, once they've alienated all of their economic partners to the point sales only happen forced at gunpoint, we'll find out that this "culture of tech leadership and investment" was always an abundance of cash derived from a global market.
- philipallstar 1y ago
  > I guess, once they've alienated all of their economic partners to the point sales only happen forced at gunpoint, we'll find out that this "culture of tech leadership and investment" was always an abundance of cash derived from a global market. Cash definitely helps, because people don't like working for nothing. But there's also a culture of entrepreneurship, not related to wealth, that the US (and other places, e.g. South Africa) has, that lots of European places don't. But now that the US has shown Europe what cloud is, and done all the investment and learning, maybe Europe can copy one a bit.

epolanski 1y ago

> What's missing in Europe is a Culture of Tech Leadership and Investment. Europe is really risk adverse, yet technology by its very nature require you to experiment and fail more than you succeed.

pyrale 1y ago

> What's missing in Europe is a Culture of Tech Leadership and Investment. Yeah... I wonder if that culture of investment comes from people all over the world giving money to US companies so they can invest. I guess, once they've alienated all of their economic partners to the point sales only happen forced at gunpoint, we'll find out that this "culture of tech leadership and investment" was always an abundance of cash derived from a global market.

philipallstar 1y ago
> I guess, once they've alienated all of their economic partners to the point sales only happen forced at gunpoint, we'll find out that this "culture of tech leadership and investment" was always an abundance of cash derived from a global market. Cash definitely helps, because people don't like working for nothing. But there's also a culture of entrepreneurship, not related to wealth, that the US (and other places, e.g. South Africa) has, that lots of European places don't. But now that the US has shown Europe what cloud is, and done all the investment and learning, maybe Europe can copy one a bit.