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Bad cloud use cases killed cloud (Score:5, Interesting)
Cloud is great for bursty loads and short term projects. In my experience most loads don't fall into these categories.
Cloud is terrible for near constant loads over long periods of time. Data center is way cheaper and easier to run.
Cloud management requires a level of OCD control that most places can't handle. It's too easy to spin up expensive virtuals that get lost, burn through expensive storage you didn't realize you were using, not realize your outbound data has spiked into the danger zone until the
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I am curious to hear more about your experiences. Was it your sense that the "new CTO's" (A) had done any due diligence deciding to move to the cloud; maybe coming up with the wrong numbers or answers, but at least an honest effort; or (B) they were prodded, goaded, badgered into doing so by the CEO or CFO or someone else higher but more stupid, so they dutifully complied; or (C) they were just jumping on the latest tech fad bandwagon, IT-fomo; or (D) something else? Did you ever get the sense that the
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It was almost always the new CTO got his job by telling the CEO and Board how he's going to swoop in like a white knight, dump their "legacy" but perfectly functional non-cloud setup, bring the company into the modern cloud era and save a ton of money doing so. CTO never once had a clue what they were talking about but had a partially written plan that was 5% executed when I got hired because it was way fucking harder than he sold.
In addition to the costs and complexity, the existing staff generally had ze
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Well tired, too, yes but fired. :-)
I always understood my role was to get paid to take the heat for his failures after fixing them for him.
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Yeah I just sort of stumbled into it. I always knew I wanted to do big data center/colo type stuff and then randomly ended up doing startups + colo and sort of wandered from company to company over the years, figured out how things really were relatively early on and did my best to suck up their bullshit -and- their cash.
For a while I was targeting companies I knew sucked because they had to pay better to get qualified people. The stress was extra high, the upper management was as horrible as you can imag
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For a while I was targeting companies I knew sucked because they had to pay better to get qualified people.
That was a clever observation. I chose the alternate path, where low pay and mediocrity are all around. ;)
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lol, oh I assure you, I encountered plenty of mediocrity in shitty companies :-)
In some I wish they rose to the level of mediocrity.