[redwood]

I lived in a country where everyone has a power generator in their building. Let's just say the quality of life was significantly lower. This cloud shift is like an unstoppable tidal wave. I'm always surprised when I hear people with your argument. Are you willing to imagine that in a couple years things may change your perspective?

[slackingoff2017]

The key is that most services don't need to be reliable. I think the cloud has huge promise here. Engineers tend to think their app needs five-nines reliability when we live in a world where the banks close twice a week.

I don't think on-prem will ever die out. It's like owning vs renting your office. There's pros and cons to each and we'll eventually hit some kind of equilibrium.