alt Hacker NewsCloud is insanely expensive and inefficient. Too many engineers don't understand how slow I/O back and forth is on network storage, or VMs with chatty neighbors are compared to bare metal...
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> Cloud is insanely expensive and inefficient.
Depends on your metrics. Say you're an early startup - short on man-hours and bare-metal skills, with backers who think that "cloud" sounds fast, cool, and scalable.
Or your a VP at some big company - with C-suite mandate to deliver Cool Solutions ASAP, whatever the cost...but a byzantine mess of middle managers between you and the actual engineers. Deciding "we'll use CloudCo" can rob your steaming heap of PHB's of a lot of opportunities to make bad decisions and drag things out.
It's all about trade off.
Do you want to spend thousands of dollar upfront for that DB server with sweet sweet NVME SSDs, of which your application might not even use 1% before the app get scraped?
I can have an app which scales to zero and costs me nothing, but could instantly handle everyone using it. That's not possible on-prem.
> Too many engineers don't understand how (...) VMs with chatty neighbors are compared to bare metal
sell a lie, blame the victim?
>Cloud is insanely expensive
The math has drastically changed over the last few years. For example, the on-prem database server we bought 4 years ago for $14K is now pricing out at $96K.