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Episode 128a – The not-so silver lining

October 27, 2022 Nate

Welcome to Episode 128

Main Topic

Blog by David Heinemeier Hansson https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0
1. He’s a Danish programmer, and the Creator of Ruby on Rails
2. He is also co-founder of both Basecamp and HEY
  1. https://basecamp.com/
  2. https://hey.com/
3. And, an Author
1. Basecamp has been at least partially in the cloud for a long time
2. HEY was started in the cloud.
3. Various platforms and technologies
  1. Bare vms
  2. K8s
  3. Google
  4. Amazon
4. “Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth.”
5. Two ends of the scale:
  1. Low-end, when your application is simple, low workloads, you benefit from the simplicity of managed services
  2. Irregular “bursty” end, where you have a certain sustained workload, but it has a tendency to burst, and then settle.
6. Middle of the scale:
  1. Workloads that have consistent traffic, and stable growth
7. Cost vs Complexity
  1. A lot of server hardware could be bought for half a million a year
  2. Argument being, managing those servers.
  1. Half a million spend for HEY per year.
  2. But how true is that, really?
8. And then there’s centralization…
1. Who is David Heinemeier Hansson https://dhh.dk/?
2. So what about this post.

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