It means owning and controlling your own hardware. It's really, really nice to be able to reason about real hardware when doing performance optimization or deep

It means owning and controlling your own hardware. It's really, really nice to be able to reason about real hardware when doing performance optimization or deep bug analysis. If you're stuck in the public cloud ghetto there's only so deep you can go before throwing up your hands and saying, "eh, I guess Amazon is having a bad day..."