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0 pointsozim5mo ago0 comments

As mentioned multiple times in other comments and places people think that doing what Google or FB is doing should be what everyone else is doing.

We are running modest operations on European VPS provider where I work and whenever we get a new hire (business or technical does not matter) it is like a Groundhog day - I have to explain — WE ALREADY ARE IN THE CLOUD, NO YOU WILL NOT START "MIGRATING TO CLOUD PROJECT" ON MY WATCH SO YOU CAN PAD YOUR CV AND MOVE TO ANOTHER COMPANY TO RUIN THEIR INFRA — or something along those lines but asking chatgpt to make it more friendly tone.

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PeterStuer5mo ago

The number of times I have seen fresh "architects" come in with an architectural proposal for a 10 user internal LoB app that they got from a Meta or Microsoft worldscale B2C service blueprint ...

kccqzy5mo ago

> doing what Google or FB is doing

Google doesn't even deploy most of its own code to run on VMs. Containers yes but not VMs.

ozimOP5mo ago

Well I think that’s the point people think if we run VPS and not containers or some app fabric, serverless so PaaS we are “not using real cloud”. But we use IaaS and it is also proper cloud.

dijit5mo ago

Yeah, the irony being Google runs VMs in Containers but not the other way around.

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