Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
by raxxorraxor on Thursday May 05, 2022 @03:49AM
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There are 10, probably more, cloud consultants per developer. Hard to argue against that.
There is nothing to say against a cloud version of your office suit but otherwise it is quite underwhelming. Short lived applications with a 90% API because the developer want to keep the door open to imprison the users once the application has captured a critical mass of users.
I host on AWS because I don't pay the fairly high invoices. Less domain and TLS maintenance for me. Personally I rent a server and host my personal stuff there including software repositories.
edit: Guess that technically would also qualify as cloud, but I think a differentiation is necessary. Cloud mostly means product x or y instead of just another hosted server.
There is nothing to say against a cloud version of your office suit but otherwise it is quite underwhelming. Short lived applications with a 90% API because the developer want to keep the door open to imprison the users once the application has captured a critical mass of users.
I host on AWS because I don't pay the fairly high invoices. Less domain and TLS maintenance for me. Personally I rent a server and host my personal stuff there including software repositories.
edit: Guess that technically would also qualify as cloud, but I think a differentiation is necessary. Cloud mostly means product x or y instead of just another hosted server.