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0 pointskodablah7y ago0 comments

No. Some of my quotes: "set up on on the cloud (or set of servers) of my choice", "being cloud-independent", "not [...] marry myself to a cloud vendor", etc.

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BerislavLopac7y ago

You know why you can fill your car's tank on any petrol station? Because all the different players -- pump vendors, car makers, oil companies etc -- are using the same standards for the size of nozzle, fuel composition etc. They have concluded that standardisation is in their interest, as opposed to locking the customers in.

In software there are no such standards, or rather there are too many standards, and new ones are being released every day. Currently there is no clear incentive for vendors to standardise, and it's quite possible there will never be, it's early to tell.

What you're describing currently requires enormous resources, and no single company can pull that off -- even Google is struggling with keeping both back-end stability and front-end simplicity (I'm currently working on a new GCP tool which just got into beta, so I can see it firsthand). Standardisation allows many different vendors to focus only on a part of the whole supply chain, while with the cloud you have single vendors trying to cover everything under one roof.

It would be great if we could combine Digital Ocean's droplets with Google's BigQuery with Amazon's RDS, all through a simple front-end UI -- but the nozzle size is not standardised, and I wonder if it will ever be...

hashkb7y ago

If you bought all of this pre-made from a vendor, you'd be tied to that vendor, subject to their pricing whims, support SLA, etc. Maybe they'd be multi-cloud, maybe not.

kodablahOP7y ago

I don't want to buy it pre-made. I want to buy the coordination/orchestration software. And I don't want to spend forever in yaml/chef/ansible whatever to setup these things every company does. I want to download it and I want to run it. I'll give it a list of servers and some SSH keys. It can tell me if it needs more capacity. The dashboard can even be local.

orf7y ago

That sounds like an open source collection of things, rather than a startup idea.

i like it though, could really help in some situations.

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