[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.