[davidjnelson]

Derick, always impressed with your writing and work. The challenge I hit recently is that the saas providers I'd like to use don't enable the user experience I need my app to have. I will likely end up doing most everything directly on aws, even though I would prefer the improved time to market gained by leveraging higher level paas abstractions. Of course, iaas is still a nice high level abstraction itself :-)

[derickbailey]

thanks! :) i totally get the need to move things in house, too. i'm pretty happy that i can get the right experience for my users without having to do that, at this point. IaaS is definitely amazing! "oh, i need more servers? (fiddles with a knob) DONE!" :D