You Are Not Google (2017)

Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by aprdm on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:26PM (#19586669)

Depends on how you architecture it, theoretically spinning on prems or in baremetal or vsphere should be an ansible script with its roles and some docker file regardless.

Just for reference we ""devops"" around 2 thousand VMs and 120 baremetal servers and a little of cloud stuff through same scripts and workflows.

We don't really leverage locked in cloud things because we need the flexibility of on prems.

In my business hardware is essentially a drop in the bucket of our costs.

P.s: I totally think there are legit use cases for cloud, is just another tool you can leverage depending on the situation

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by scarface74 on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:47PM (#19586868)

Spinning up on prem means you have to already the servers in your colo ready and have to pay for spare capacity. Depending on your tolerance for latency (production vs non-production environments or asynchronous batch processing), you can operate at almost 100% capacity all of the time:

Lambda vs VMs (yes you can deploy standard web apps to Lambda using a lambda proxy)

Serverless Aurora vs Regular Aurora.

Tx instances vs regular instances

Autoscaling VMs.

Autoscaling DynomoDB

Etc.

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