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by traceroute66 640 days ago
Take off those rose-tinted cloud spectacles and put them in the nearest trash can @michaelt !

> You'll want a test environment

You need that in the cloud too...

> You'll want a process to make sure every production change can be reversed

You need that in the cloud too...

> You'll want a process to make sure configuration changes

You need that in the cloud too....

> you'll want a gradual process.

You need that in the cloud too...

> You'll want to monitor

You need to do that in the cloud too....

> user growth / surge in demand

The problem with the cloud is everyone thinks they need to design for Google-scale from day zero.

Sure the cloud providers don't mind, more money for them ...

> there's a chance of a partial failover.

Could, and does, happen in the cloud too....

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Layers, layers and more layers.

Cloud providers want to provide some layers for you. Thank god they exist and live with the layers you can’t pay someone else to do.