Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl...
by alexchantavy on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:27PM
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The other day I heard on here the phrase "cattle, not pets" used as how to treat servers. This seems useful in this context too.
Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl...
by scruple on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:34PM
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Replaceable cogs, yes, that's been the push regarding programmers since the 80s? Earlier? Plenty of articles and rants online to read about the phenomenon as it specifically relates to programming going back to the 90s, also probably earlier, too.
Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl...
by fijiaarone on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:39PM
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The reason you have to pay for a cloud of virtual chickens, is because you can’t get decent bandwidth on a few free range beef & dairy cattle.
A single well tended rack in a closet on-site, with a few single cpu servers hosting multiple applications, a SAN, and a fat data pipe could replace hundreds of Kubernetes clusters — if there wasn’t a cartel on network speed.
When I was a kid my dad said "companies won't think twice about dumping you, don't worry about dumping them."
But he worked in the same place for forty years. Sometimes he was treated well, sometimes he wasn't.
It occurs to me what a relic that world is but also how it sounded bizarre when my dad said that to me in the early 00s. At that time there were still "lifers" all over that place. Or people who spent 10-20 years working up in the same company.
That's all gone now. Everything is more ephemeral, more disposable. I'm not sure if it's a good thing but I'm pretty sure signing up to be a "company man" wasn't, either.