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The more I read about The Cloud(tm), the more I'm convinced it's just Far East outsourcing all over again. I worked with an Indian outsourcing firm as one of t
by DLWormwood 18y ago
The more I read about The Cloud(tm), the more I'm convinced it's just Far East outsourcing all over again. I worked with an Indian outsourcing firm as one of the few American programmers, and I can tell you Cloud computing is going to hit the same wall: communication. No matter how much money you save upfront or ease of prediction that the contract could give you, you WILL lose time and effectiveness due to the increased communication the inserted organizational layer will introduce.
- holygoat 18y agoAt least from my perspective as an engineer, AWS in particular removes huge layers of nonsense, and there are no increased layers of communication. It's cheaper than buying machines (by a huge amount!), cheaper than keeping them running, and I can make changes on the fly that would otherwise take a week to grind through netops. If load spikes (as it did recently for one of our customers), the conventional answer is "we can't buy 20 more servers in 2 days"! My response was "why not use EC2?" For a new project, rather than submitting a PO for $20k+ in hardware, I can say "it'll cost $140 for the first month". Much easier to approve -- I can put that through on expenses! Finally, if you consider that most large companies outsource datacenter management, whether truly outsourced to a services company, or "internally outsourced" to another division, using a cloud system that at least acknowledges your right to remotely administer your own service is a step forward, not a step back.