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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by jedberg on Monday December 23, 2024 @01:49AM (#42492358)
Those could count. But you'll still end up having to do some linux admin, which a lot of people can't do anymore.

The whole point is that the closer you can get to "write code, run code", the faster you can launch and innovate.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by tiffanyh on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:21AM (#42495514)
It sounds like you’re describing PaaS then.
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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by ldng on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @04:29AM (#42500744)
Linux admin still exists. Except that they are better paid than ever at cloud provider. What you're describing is more payroll flexibility than technical.
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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by jedberg on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @12:41PM (#42503445)
How is it not technical flexibility? No matter what talent you have on payroll, you can't spin up a whole datacenter's worth of machines in Europe in less than a day without a cloud provider.

And I mean less than a day from "I think we should operate in Europe" to "we are operating production workloads in Europe".

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