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.

 


 


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Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2
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