Episode 128a - The not-so silver lining
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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/