Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon...
by Jochim on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:38PM
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Barring exceptional circumstances, I don't have to fight that fight at the cloud provider though. Their business is more likely to be amenable to maintaining and expanding reasonable levels of capacity.
I have to deal with a grumpy finance guy that thinks my whole department is overpaid already, especially so if we might use the dreaded `CapEx` word.
Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon...
by hobs on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:31PM
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3 months vs 2 years, I'll take it :)
Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon...
by NohatCoder on Thursday May 04, 2023 @03:40PM
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I think the main point here is that there is no limit to incompetence. And sure, having your own servers allow for some goofs that won't happen with cloud (the opposite is also true). But your org had the means to fix the issue, and they choose not to. That has fundamentally got nothing to do with technology choice.
A cloud vendor (who will be nameless as I signed an NDA specifically that prevents me from disparaging them; but one of the big three) ran out of capacity for me and it was 3 months before they managed to fix it. -- that was with a couple million a month in spend.
Cloud is still servers; you just depend on someone elses capacity management skills and you hope that there isn't a rush to populate a location (like when a region goes down and everyone's auto-provisioners move regions to yours)