Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail
by noprocrasted on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @05:15AM
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> The essence of the complaint that one has to have the knowledge of something before that something can be used
My point was to disprove that "cloud" is simpler than conventional sysadmin - it is not, and it involves similar effort, complexity and manpower requirements.
I will have to disagree on that.
Cloud is simpler than conventional sysadmin, once its foundational principles are understood and the declarative approach to the cloud architecture is adopted. If I want to run a solution, cloud gives me just that – a platform that simply runs my solution and abstracts the sysadmin ugliness away.
I have experienced both sides, including UNIX kernel and system programming, and I don't want to even think about sysadmin unless I want to tinker with a UNIX box on a weekend as a leisure activity.
The essence of the complaint that one has to have the knowledge of something before that something can be used. It seems like a reasonable expectation for just about anything in life.
(The API gateway in AWS is USD 2.35 for 10 million 32 kB requests, a Lambda can have its own private URL if required and Fargate does not deploy Git repos, it runs Docker images.)