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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by ldjkfkdsjnv on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:24AM (#36987175)
Yup. Most complaints about the cloud are people who dont understand how to use it. They have been left behind and havent reskilled. They call it "too complex". In reality, using AWS is 10000x better than some custom infrastructure.
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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by colechristensen on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:30AM (#36987264)
You have to be able to beat the cloud locally to make doing so make sense. AWS et al. set the bar and it’s difficult to beat them with your local infrastructure.
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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by ldjkfkdsjnv on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:32AM (#36987280)
They have 10000 engineers working 50 hours a week to keep their cloud running. The thing works on the back of very hard work from very smart people.
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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by colechristensen on Thursday August 03, 2023 @12:36PM (#36988166)
You don't need that much to have a cloud with several 9's of uptime.

If you've never done the work or been around it, the difficulty becomes a bit mythologized.

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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by thrixton on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:06AM (#37009705)
Sure, but to a certain extent, that’s survivorship bias.

It’s very easy to run something with several 8’s of uptime if you’re not careful.

AWS has good patterns to guide you into the pit of success.

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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by peteradio on Thursday August 03, 2023 @12:26PM (#36988015)
If the thing you are trying to do isn't very complex then beating Cloud is not that difficult. Many small companies just don't need it and moving to it adds cost and complexity for what?
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