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The essential basis of running services in “the cloud” is that they run in virtual machines The fuck it isn't -- “the cloud” is so much more than the x86 provi
by blasdel 17y ago
The essential basis of running services in “the cloud” is that they run in virtual machines
The fuck it isn't -- “the cloud” is so much more than the x86 provisioning frippery of EC2 et. al. They provide no logical abstraction, only a physical one.
Hadoop, S3, Google App Engine, Heroku, and other real platforms let you completely avoid dealing with machine-level bullshit.
- moe 17y agoHadoop, S3, Google App Engine, Heroku, and other real platforms let you completely avoid dealing with machine-level bullshit. The problem is that their constraints rule them out for a wide variety of use-cases, I'd go as far as to say: most use-cases. When building anything serious (and no, the next twitter-bot doesn't qualify) you quickly realize that you'll have to deal with at least some of the machine-level bullshit - because otherwise you'd be either paying through your nose, or simply not be able to implement what you need.