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Re:OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level by lossolo on Friday May 23, 2025 @09:26AM (#44072696)
Yeah, that's baffling to me too. I started self-hosting my databases with MySQL 21 years ago, before the cloud even existed.
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Re:OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level by edoceo on Friday May 23, 2025 @10:16AM (#44073128)
Before the cloud? More than 21 years ago that damn cloud icon was in every Visio network diagram.
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Re:OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level by dboreham on Friday May 23, 2025 @10:53AM (#44073454)
Before that it was on whiteboards.
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Re:OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level by lossolo on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:00PM (#44074512)
> Before the cloud?

Yes, the cloud, in the modern sense (as in, on-demand scalable infrastructure like AWS), was just beginning to emerge back then, AWS launched S3 and EC2 in 2006 so 19 years ago. Other cloud services followed over the next several years.

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Re:OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level by dragonwriter on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:09PM (#44074574)
The popularity of the cloud icon in diagrams well precedes the term “cloud computing” being coined for on-demand scalable (usually, but not always, remote-hosted) infrastructure and services that accompanied the explosion of such services in about the mid-00s.
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Re:OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level by edoceo on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:12AM (#44078710)
IME folk were saying move it to the cloud, with the meaning of a manged provider, before 2005.
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