Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by wwn_se on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:03AM (#23101359)

On factor for small companies that I have noticed at the places where I have been is that (as a dev consultant). The places that use the cloud often scale up to much. Since the cloud don't limit developers its very easy to just "spinn up a new xx" and not think about the long term costs.

Unless you are really small, have variable workloads then the cloud is maybe not for you. Unless the cost is a small part of the total cost of the plattform like not really related to how many users/sales you have.

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by kaydub on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:08AM (#23102509)

I've noticed small companies are more worried about the actual bills coming in where as big companies are more worried about the perceived lack of speed/agility in their development.

We could spend time making sure we use the smallest aurora instances possible in AWS or we could standardize on a version to support and use the smallest size of that version that's available. We spend a lot on this extra capacity in some places, but it greatly increases our speed in other places.

It's all about trade-offs and what your organization values.

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by degenerate on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:59AM (#23103038)

I see this a lot in my industry (health).

More often than not, my fellow devs are happy throwing extra servers at a problem instead of tackling the problem :(

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