[louwrentius]

Reading the comments in this thread already shows how much of 'those' 'software janitors'[1] don't understand what is required (and how little) to run on metal.

It's not that cloud is not the right answer. But people have started to forget that running your own metal is still an option. Or with current prices and performance: even a more viable option as it was in the past, because you can do so much more with so much less.

[1]: cranking out useless features nobody ask for while looking down on those (dev)ops people.

[logifail]

> software janitors don't understand what is required (and how little) to run on metal

Quite. In the middle of lockdown a client needed to spin up some virtual machine instances to demo a product to a potential client. Previous boss had been pushing a cloud-only strategy using Azure and was itching to retire all the physical servers.

Problem: can't spin up any kind of VM due to lack of Azure capacity.

me: "Well, we have that [physical] dev server which we still have, we could spin up the demo stuff on that..." new boss: "Oh, cool. Great lateral thinking!" me: <wtf?>

Demo done. Potential client happy. Boss happy.

[louwrentius]

Thanks for sharing this example. I got a call years ago from azure that I could not get the 10 vms extra capacity at that time. Insane.