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I sometimes wonder if cloud computing would exist as it exists today without relatively inefficient monoliths that had to scale. Once they'd scaled, the develop
by andrewstuart2 11y ago
I sometimes wonder if cloud computing would exist as it exists today without relatively inefficient monoliths that had to scale. Once they'd scaled, the developers could afford to start peeling off the layers, thus only scaling pieces that needed to, leaving them with spare hardware.
"Hey, let's rent this crap," said some guy. And cloud computing was born.
Obviously I have no evidence of this at all, but I do still wonder, since at least two of the common vendors (Amazon and Google) were tech companies before they offered hosting.
- ksenzee 11y agoIt would be a cool story if it were true, but in fact AWS existed before Amazon was using it internally. They were selling their ability to run large datacenters, not their existing spare capacity.
- andreyf 11y agoSource? I'd also heard the "AWS was Amazon's extra capacity since they only use it all on black Friday" story.
- signifiers 11y agoIt's a common misconception. Chris Pinkham and Ben Black created it, and it never had anything to do with excess capacity. http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html