[rjbwork]

Hell, we're now infrastructure-less. No VM's (except for our QA to test on, doesn't count), no static servers we can't just destroy and spin up another of in <5 mins, and no database servers that we have to manage.

It truly is a joy.

[pit]

God bless you -- you are doing the Cloud's work.

[oftenwrong]

Curious: How do you persist data with no database servers? Using an outside service to store it?

[rjbwork]

We used Azure SQL for our RDBMS requirements, and blob/table storage for our NoSQL stuff. Sure there's a server behind it, but it's transparent to us and it's geo-redundant and replicated. When i say "no servers" what I mean is, we don't need any system admins and very little ops folks. In fact at the moment, devs are pretty much ops since we need very little of it.

I also forgot to mention we have a build server, but thats just a virtual machine that we backup regularly. It's our only piece of static infrastructure. Everything else, except storage which is, again, transparent to us, is destroyed on a weekly, if not daily, basis for new releases.