The dot-com boom
In fairness I was in school for those so I have no experience in them. While I was in the workforce for the others.
I am curious what advantages the cloud offers that a colo in a DC with proper planning can’t.
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoHype cycles come and go, but cloud compute is still around because it has real advantages, and big data solves real scaling problems.
You left out the biggest hype cycle. The dot-com boom wasted a ton of cash but also created Google Amazon and Netflix.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 day ago
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The advantage is you don’t need to plan and provision your own infrastructure in a DC because the vendor handles it.
That flexibility is worth serious money.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Personally I don’t call that an advantage. Paying 3-5x times in monthly fees over the course of 5 years just so someone else can lifecycle the hardware. That doesn’t even include the performance hit from using shared infrastructure compared to dedicated infrastructure.
Look at 37Signals saving $7 million over 5 years after leaving AWS.
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
it has real advantages for some scenarios. finding those scenarios (and by extension, everything it’s not good for) is usually what makes tech bubbles burst.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I miss having a big private cluster.
I do not miss fighting with other departments for a share of that one cluster.
I definitely do not miss waiting months for capacity to be added.
That it costs my employer a bit more is a decision made above my pay grade.
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
meanwhile we’re running our entire infra and support for hundreds of international customers on one of those old flat lenovo thinkstations.
we only just got a vps, because of routing issues.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Different scale needs different tech.
I’ve been at F500 companies but it sounds like you’re at a smaller business.