Re:Lyft Files S-1
by djakjxnanjak on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:15PM
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They have many teams making their own web services, so replacing AWS with in-house infra would require an AWS-like “private cloud” feature set, backed by geographically distributed datacenters. Network segmentation that is managed by configuration, user accounts with permissions to do specific things to specific services, etc. Engineers to build all this stuff are not cheap, and management to build and migrate to it cleanly it is not easy. If you can do this you ought to be selling cloud services. Even if it makes sense for Lyft to implement this, it would take a while. The RIO is probably much better on improving their core product, where there is more than $100M/year at stake.
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Sounds like OpenStack...
Re:Lyft Files S-1
by toomuchtodo on Saturday March 02, 2019 @12:16AM
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Works for Wikipedia, and they’re in the top 5 of Internet websites.
Re:Lyft Files S-1
by djakjxnanjak on Saturday March 02, 2019 @11:51PM
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I suspect nonprofits like the Wikimedia Foundation have much greater constraints on billables but perhaps relatively less constraints on engineering and management effort. That probably changes the ROI calculation quite a bit.
And management of such organizations might also have ideological tendencies that further skew the calculation.