Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
by spookthesunset on Friday February 09, 2018 @05:36PM
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> in-house skills to troubleshoot/manage hardware servers
Which costs time, money and opportunity cost. Something that all the "rack and stack" people seem to forget when they compare owning bare-metal servers against managed cloud providers.
The amount of time these "bare-metal" shops waste building and maintaining infrastructure management tools, scaling tools, reporting and monitoring tools is mind boggling. None of this stuff has anything to do with the core business the company actually is in. Opportunity costs here are immense....
Which costs time, money and opportunity cost. Something that all the "rack and stack" people seem to forget when they compare owning bare-metal servers against managed cloud providers.
The amount of time these "bare-metal" shops waste building and maintaining infrastructure management tools, scaling tools, reporting and monitoring tools is mind boggling. None of this stuff has anything to do with the core business the company actually is in. Opportunity costs here are immense....