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darkwateryesterday at 11:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Exactly my point. But then developers: "I just want to go to my Heroku days again!" but then with a sufficient big company there are maaany developers doing things their slightly different way, and then other effects start compounding, and then costs go up because 15 different teams are using 27 different solutions and and and...

But yeah, let's just spin-up a shadow IT VM with Debian like GP said, it's easy!


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throwup238yesterday at 12:42 PM

> But yeah, let's just spin-up a shadow IT VM with Debian like GP said, it's easy!

That’s literally how they sold AWS in the beginning.

Cloud won not because of costs or flexibility but because it allowed teams to provision their own machines from their budget instead of going through all the red tape with their IT departments creating… a bunch of shadow IT VMs!

Everything old is new again, except it works on an accelerated ten year cycle in the IT industry.

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