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Re:Elastic files for an IPO by itronitron on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:11PM (#17923203)
Can someone explain why a company would pay a cloud provider extra to manage an open source API for them when they could just run it in the cloud themselves?
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Re:Elastic files for an IPO by toomuchtodo on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:22PM (#17923250)
Cheaper than spending the time doing it yourself until you’re paying people to do it for you.

Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource. Throw dollars at the problem when you have them and it’s cheaper than your time.

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Re:Elastic files for an IPO by itronitron on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:03AM (#17923783)
I think a lot of companies have a hard time managing that transition as they scale up though.
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