“Knowing what you are doing” — yes, and what they are doing is throwing more labor, more machines and more electricity at the problem than either Google or Facebook ever would.

Major cloud providers got off “commodity enterprise” over a decade ago. There’s a reason for that.... the stuff is just bad.

LOL.

Yes it is a pain. All these incumbent vendors have atrocious tools, management interfaces, and dealing with firmware is basically the same as 1990.

and in your estimation, 30 years (actually closer to 20) isn't enough time to get good at a thing?