Re:The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the ...
by drieddust on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:13PM
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Well it does not work that way in reality.
Legacy apps asummes a certain degree of reliability from the underlaying infrastructure. This assumption falls flat on its face in the cloud. Netflix wouldn't have needed to develop Chaos Monkey if this wasn't the case.
Secondly leap to cloud native never happens because no one wants to take the pain once it works even barely. Any issues can be pushed onto Infrastructure team. It's pure and simple risk avoidance.
Get them on the cloud, then they can have the 'option' to start utilizing pure cloud type services, and migrate over.
Just reproducing their current setup on the cloud in many ways makes perfect sense.
Remember that for most companies, IT is just IT - it's an enabler, but not a huge differentiator. What 'works works', and tech change is expensive and risky.
Going to the cloud and shifting paradigms is two big steps, they can be taken one at a time.
But yes - any HN reader would be kind of 'shocked' to walk into almost any company in the world and see how 'high tech' really works. It's a valuable lesson in perspective, though.