alt Hacker NewsEU hosting their own ops like they built the Airbus A380:
Database runs in France, front end in Belgium, Operations in Spain...
EU Fairness dictates they all need to get a slice of the pie so this will be interesting (and by that I mean absurdly hilarious).
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Like NASA rockets don't have components whose manufacture is very carefully distributed over all US states just to keep the senators happy.
In any case, there are plenty of EU giants (ASML, SAP, Siemens, Alstom, Rheinmetall, etc) that are rather concentrated geographically speaking. EU fairness is more a government agency distribution thing, not for private companies.
Yeah, I guess we replaced globalism with Europalism, since some of the other parties who initially pushed for globalism now wants nothing to do with it anymore. Oh well, I'm looking forward to closer connections and relationships to our French and Belgian brothers and sisters :)
Isnt that how american contracts work?
You put your Headquarters in seattle, your data center in alabama, you have your dev team in SF... every state gets a slice
Like gov contracts and how they are divided is basically the largest conversation in defense contracts, they give more of a shit who will make the nails for a tank than the security parameters of the crew members
The A380 is a fantastic airplane to ride, so if that is the end result I’m a fan!
> Database runs in France, front end in Belgium, Operations in Spain...
How is that worse than headquarters in New York, incorporation in Delaware, operations in California, and datacenters in Texas?
An entire continent's sentiment shifting to pull market share away from your team is nothing to snark at, regardless of whether the first iteration works perfectly out of the box. I can guarantee you someone in Europe is smart enough to eventually get their needs sorted.
Well Airbus is doing much better than Boeing so I'm not sure what's the problem.
I think we're going to witness a very inefficient system getting brought to work by policies alone.
And I'm not even bashing EU. The closest example still working today is probably the US's Jones Act.
Better than Boeing, I guess...
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> EU hosting their own ops like they built the Airbus A380: > Database runs in France, front end in Belgium, Operations in Spain...
You snark, but is this not EXACTLY how a sizeable majority of modern apps are made?
Substitute in some random tech stacks, cloud providers, or buzzwords.
Database runs in AWS, front end in Nuxt, Operations in Claude.