[dijit]

This will be an unpopular opinion because HN is full of web folks: Do not listen to jedberg, he drank the cloud kool-aid long ago and I can only assume he is not looking at billing and TCO critically or sitting in the board room discussing why the infra costs are higher than the staffing costs.

Personally, I do care that cloud is in the order of 10x the price and do have to explain infra cost as a metric of our road to profitability to our board.

My company does work closer to the metal, especially because for us the notion of “scaling” is not that we can simply slap a load balancer or a cache in front of a bunch of servers and call it a day: when you work with HFT or AAA Games: the performance you get on a single machine really matters, as does the ability of that machine to work reliably since there is state.

People in HFT and games really bleed for people like you and I, since its not as simple as CRUD stateless HTTP stuff where performance is measured in milliseconds and the average node runs 2GHz on all cores with 14 different abstractions.

Cloud optimises for the web, when its not the web, there are major dragons- those are your people.