Episode 128a - The not-so silver lining

Welcome to Episode 128 Main Topic Blog by David Heinemeier Hansson https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0  He’s a Danish programmer, and the Creator of Ruby on Rails He is also co-founder of both Basecamp and HEY https://basecamp.com/  https://hey.com/  And, an Author https://basecamp.com/books/rework  https://basecamp.com/books/calm/  https://basecamp.com/books/remote/  https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real/  Basecamp has been at least partially in the cloud for a long time HEY was started in the cloud. Various platforms and technologies Bare vms K8s Google Amazon “Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth.” Two ends of the scale: Low-end, when your application is simple, low workloads, you benefit from the simplicity of managed services Irregular “bursty” end, where you have a certain sustained workload, but it has a tendency to burst, and then settle.  Middle of the scale: Workloads that have consistent traffic, and stable growth Cost vs Complexity A lot of server hardware could be bought for half a million a year Argument being, managing those servers. Half a million spend for HEY per year.  But how true is that, really? And then there’s centralization…   Who is David Heinemeier Hansson https://dhh.dk/? So what about this post.     Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast  OR https://twitch.tv/IronSysadminPodcast   Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wmxvQ4c2H6  Matrix Space: https://matrix.to/#/#IronSysadmin:trixie.undrground.org  Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.twitter.com/ironsysadmin Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin   Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/