Welcome to Episode 128 Main Topic 1. Blog by David Heinemeier Hansson https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0 1. He’s a Danish programmer, and the Creator of Ruby on Rails 2. He is also co-founder of both Basecamp and HEY 1. https://basecamp.com/ 2. https://hey.com/ 3. And, an Author 1. https://basecamp.com/books/rework 2. https://basecamp.com/books/calm/ 3. https://basecamp.com/books/remote/ 4. https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real/ 1. Basecamp has been at least partially in the cloud for a long time 2. HEY was started in the cloud. 3. Various platforms and technologies 1. Bare vms 2. K8s 3. Google 4. Amazon 4. “Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth.” 5. Two ends of the scale: 1. Low-end, when your application is simple, low workloads, you benefit from the simplicity of managed services 2. Irregular “bursty” end, where you have a certain sustained workload, but it has a tendency to burst, and then settle. 6. Middle of the scale: 1. Workloads that have consistent traffic, and stable growth 7. Cost vs Complexity 1. A lot of server hardware could be bought for half a million a year 2. Argument being, managing those servers. 1. Half a million spend for HEY per year. 2. But how true is that, really? 8. And then there’s centralization… 1. Who is David Heinemeier Hansson https://dhh.dk/? 2. So what about this post.
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