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by clouded
1460 days ago
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I don't know, I work for the kind of companies that have 20 year old Java codebases. In these companies, they are only relatively recently migrating to AWS. They're at different points along this path, but they seem to converge on the same idea to give all their money to Amazon. And if Amazon is selling a product that does something, then they're going to find a way to use it. I mean, the old application still has to keep doing what it's always been doing, just with more cloud, and with some kind of NoSQL database. That part seems especially important. A few more very important buzzwords are terraform, hashicorp, and kubernetes. I don't know what they are, but apparently without those, software isn't possible. |
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I made an $8M mistake in 2006 selling all my AMZN stock options because I figured that AWS would never go anywhere because the costs were ridiculous and self-hosting should always be cheaper.
The only thing that Amazon did was do everything cheap as fuck. They didn't use fiberchannel or SANs and didn't pay EMC or VMWare a dime. The engineers and managers that gave of a whiff of trying to empire-build were generally fired.
Doing things cheaply and simply is magic is that the industry does not seem to understand.
And now what Amazon has built on top of its own simple infrastructure is grossly complicated, which makes people feel like its impossible to compete with them since they'd need to build something grossly complicated as well.
It should be simple to run your own in-house "cloud" by doing things very simple and cheap and scalable and responsive to the business. Just have a CTO with a vision and the willingness to aggressively fire the fuck out of anyone spending too much money or putting up barriers to getting shit done (ITIL).
Apparently doing this is more difficult than quantum gravity though. So everyone uses AWS.
Don't get me started on containers and Kubernetes...