Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
by ericd on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:28PM
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You can afford far more humans than you need to maintain 17 servers for $95.5k/month in savings…
Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
by bsenftner on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:46PM
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Yes, the human time is an investment that pays back multiple times over. Why the core of a technology business would be in the hands of a 3rd party dismays me.
Of course, those 17 servers composed dev, staging, and live, plus fallbacks, ultimately composing quite a few APIs and related services. They were all used for high compute, where a task would floor 32 cores for 3.5 seconds, and that was essentially what the cluster was for, beyond the accounting and tracking of its use.
Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
by rswail on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:53AM
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> core of a technology business
Most businesses are not technology businesses, they deliver goods or services to their customers where IT is part of their costs to deliver.
Investing in IT people to run that bare metal is a huge expense that doesn't improve your goods or services directly.
As for "where a task would floor 32 cores for 3.5 seconds"... means that your internal IT infra had to support that maximum requirement headroom 100% of the time, even though it may not be used for 99% of the time (depending on load patterns etc).
You also have to include the human time spent setting up and maintaining those servers. And also the fact that you can probably use a managed service on request instead of 17 servers running constantly. Not even mentioning redundancy.