Cloud, Why So Difficult?

Re:Cloud, Why So Difficult? by drdaeman on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @01:46AM (#36489317)

Unless the foundations themselves are changing (that is, AWS bringing something different), I suspect it's going to make it worse. It just hides the ugly truth behind yet another layer of abstraction, hoping this layer will make things work.

I don't remember when building extra abstraction layer had ever helped runtime performance. Faster and simpler coding, less learning? Sure - and that's great. But I suspect it's going to be as bad as my first large Terraform project (and oh man it sucked so bad).

Or it could be decently fast, but it'll make a number of assumptions and $deity help you if you step in a wrong direction.

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Re:Cloud, Why So Difficult? by TuringTest on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:34AM (#36489579)

Faster and simpler coding with less learning wins every time against snappy but esoteric, at least in business applications. It's better for the client, better for the developer and better for the company, even if it doesn't squeezes every processor cycle

The pure advantage of iterating faster on requirements and deploying new functions beats having a very fast but very restricted and possibly incorrect feature set. And if an application takes off, it's always possible to identify its critical path and optimize it for speed, or even re-engineer it starting from a much clear solution to the business case.

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