I'd be curious to see if there's any update to FBOD architecture. The idea of using self-hosted servers running SQL Server and IIS already sounded eccentric 5 y

I'd be curious to see if there's any update to FBOD architecture. The idea of using self-hosted servers running SQL Server and IIS already sounded eccentric 5 years ago, but given the number of options today, it'd be hard to still justify such a monolithic solution. In all fairness, Joel recognized in the article that the initial decision was based on their previous experience with Microsoft -- and AWS was still incipient in 2007 -- so it made sense at the time. I doubt this is still the case. Even less if you consider the costs of Sandy - duplicated servers, migration, hours lost, unhappy clients, etc.