How the Valley treats experienced people

Re:How the Valley treats experienced people by cenal on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:19AM (#18789826)

True but you can roll your own infrastructure for much less than it cost 20 years ago. Smart companies rely on cloud up to a tipping point. Then it becomes more cost effective to put in your own infrastructure. AWS and other cloud providers lure customers in with low costs but they get stuck paying a fortune as they start scaling.

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Re:How the Valley treats experienced people by LyndsySimon on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:24PM (#18790196)

I agree.

At a smaller scale, I love Heroku for prototype apps, and I would absolutely use them for a startup - right up to the point where I'd be paying the equivalent of 1-2 full-time devops engineers. At that point, it becomes worth it to hire them and transition away. AWS has a similar value proposition, but the tipping point is higher; I'd estimate it at around 15-20 FTEs in Amazon charges before it starts to make sense to leave.

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Re:How the Valley treats experienced people by j45 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @03:39PM (#18791198)

Good point. PaaS like heroku, cloudbee or even docker on linode is an order of magnitude simpler to ship than AWS.

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