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by quickthrower2 1037 days ago
Counterpoint to this is the rate at which you can grab some new infra and try something out is amazing. You need a Redis cache? Or a GPU? Here have one in a few seconds, instead if next month or never.

It is a bit like complaining about making tractor engines more efficient when you didn’t have those problems using animals and ploughs.
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toshk 1037 days ago
You are describing corporate red tape for your organization. Those things were already possible before the cloud hype of last 5-8 years.

Anyway the point is also not that cloud didn't solve any issues but that by solving 1 issue, you get 5 new issues, and you solve one of those and you get again 5 new ones. And the loop keeps going endlessly.

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ttymck 1037 days ago
> You need a Redis cache? Or a GPU?

But how often are these things truly *necessary"? I think they seem more necessary than they really are because they are so readily available.

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