Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2...
by tluyben2 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:02AM
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It can be true, but not from a difference between 50k and 400; chances of you getting ahead of that are not very large. The chance of your company existing in 10 years is not either.
As I have said here before; many people are abusing AWS (etc) touting this reason, but in many cases it is used with the 'we have infinite resources' (no constraints) so literally nothing is optimised and as well the case at hand is often something that would most likely not require much work on bare metal either. So for that price difference, you secure against that chance that you maybe have to fork out $2.5k ah let's splurge, let's say $25k, in those 10+ years for server management/problems etc. Of all the bare metal we have running 10+ years, only one thing breaks and that is not bare metal but an old fashioned VPS. The rest has never had any issues. That's luck, I know, but even if it would have broken, it cost to fix would've been vastly less than 25k/10years. Let alone 50k/mo.
Sure there are plenty of exceptions, but I dare say literally most companies, by far, don't need setups like that. But then again; let them set them up; usually they make things so needlessly complex, expensive and slow that I get hired to fix it somewhere in those 10 years (yes, fixing! in the cloud! as far as 'not needing to hire a team to manage it for you').
As I have said here before; many people are abusing AWS (etc) touting this reason, but in many cases it is used with the 'we have infinite resources' (no constraints) so literally nothing is optimised and as well the case at hand is often something that would most likely not require much work on bare metal either. So for that price difference, you secure against that chance that you maybe have to fork out $2.5k ah let's splurge, let's say $25k, in those 10+ years for server management/problems etc. Of all the bare metal we have running 10+ years, only one thing breaks and that is not bare metal but an old fashioned VPS. The rest has never had any issues. That's luck, I know, but even if it would have broken, it cost to fix would've been vastly less than 25k/10years. Let alone 50k/mo.
Sure there are plenty of exceptions, but I dare say literally most companies, by far, don't need setups like that. But then again; let them set them up; usually they make things so needlessly complex, expensive and slow that I get hired to fix it somewhere in those 10 years (yes, fixing! in the cloud! as far as 'not needing to hire a team to manage it for you').