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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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