Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr...
by lmm on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:43AM
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> That's just not true. There are plenty of companies that self-host highly scaling infrastructure. Twitter being just one of those companies. They've only recently started thinking about using the cloud, opted for Google, and that's only to run some of their analytics infrastructure.
Twitter is both unusually big and unusually unprofitable. You're unlikely to be as big as them, and even if you were I wouldn't assume they've made the best decisions.
> All that aside, I can point you in the direction of plenty of sysadmins who wouldn't work for major cloud providers for all the money in the world, either for moral or ethical reasons; or they're just not interested in that kind of problem; or even just that they don't want to deal with the frequently toxic burn-out environments that you hear about there.
It's best to work somewhere you're appreciated (both financially and for job-satisfaction reasons), and it's harder to be appreciated in an organization where you're a cost center than one where you're part of the primary business. There are good and bad companies in every field, and good and bad departments in every big company, but the odds are more in your favour when you go into a company that does what you do.
Twitter is both unusually big and unusually unprofitable. You're unlikely to be as big as them, and even if you were I wouldn't assume they've made the best decisions.
> All that aside, I can point you in the direction of plenty of sysadmins who wouldn't work for major cloud providers for all the money in the world, either for moral or ethical reasons; or they're just not interested in that kind of problem; or even just that they don't want to deal with the frequently toxic burn-out environments that you hear about there.
It's best to work somewhere you're appreciated (both financially and for job-satisfaction reasons), and it's harder to be appreciated in an organization where you're a cost center than one where you're part of the primary business. There are good and bad companies in every field, and good and bad departments in every big company, but the odds are more in your favour when you go into a company that does what you do.