Re:Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)
by rhizome on Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:43PM
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>I'm wondering if I'm unnecessarily conservative or other people are underestimating maintenance costs.
Check out some of the HN posts where people talk about how much companies spend on AWS and calculate how many sysadmin/devop salaries those bills could pay for (it is commonly >1). Probably even easier would be to find a company that's about 10-15 years old and see how much their tech spend declined when they switched to the cloud. ;)
Check out some of the HN posts where people talk about how much companies spend on AWS and calculate how many sysadmin/devop salaries those bills could pay for (it is commonly >1). Probably even easier would be to find a company that's about 10-15 years old and see how much their tech spend declined when they switched to the cloud. ;)