To me, if you cut out all the garbage, this sounds like going back to managed dedicated hosting. All things are new! Managed hosting is so much better than designing your own stack! Look, you can pay us to just do it and it's like magic.
Seriously?
I hate the fact that most of my projects live on AWS right now. But I don't feel locked in; I can jump off if I want. I don't buy into the entire ecosystem (read: the parts that are difficult to migrate away from), but AWS is just an amazing way to manage lots of resources and patch them together in any way you can imagine. And therein lies the creativity and control -- and cost savings. Because no two projects scale in the same way. The fantastic thing about self-managed cloud environments is that you can find the right size and scalability for each thing, and everything is where you put it. Zero-downtime is up to you. The biggest drag on downtime is people in between you and access to restarting or working directly on those services. In the 2000's, I used to have to put in a fucking ticket with tech support to reboot a server in a datacenter six timezones away, and it wouldn't happen until someone had breakfast.
Do you think people who write code and handle the optimization of it across databases and servers around the world, want to pay a middleman to "magically" do everything - and see why it doesn't scale, and find out who to call when it breaks? No, of course they want control over how their organization runs.
I mean, part of my job is just identifying services we're currently overpaying for. I can take that down to a very fine-grained level with AWS. Why would I want to pay someone else to hide that information from me?
"The edge" is like "no-code visual programming language". No one seriously wants convenience over power; but it's a great marketing pitch.
2030 will not be the revenge of managed hosting brought to you by lazy corporations like Cloudflare. It will be distributed self-managed stacks running everywhere.
Seriously?
I hate the fact that most of my projects live on AWS right now. But I don't feel locked in; I can jump off if I want. I don't buy into the entire ecosystem (read: the parts that are difficult to migrate away from), but AWS is just an amazing way to manage lots of resources and patch them together in any way you can imagine. And therein lies the creativity and control -- and cost savings. Because no two projects scale in the same way. The fantastic thing about self-managed cloud environments is that you can find the right size and scalability for each thing, and everything is where you put it. Zero-downtime is up to you. The biggest drag on downtime is people in between you and access to restarting or working directly on those services. In the 2000's, I used to have to put in a fucking ticket with tech support to reboot a server in a datacenter six timezones away, and it wouldn't happen until someone had breakfast.
Do you think people who write code and handle the optimization of it across databases and servers around the world, want to pay a middleman to "magically" do everything - and see why it doesn't scale, and find out who to call when it breaks? No, of course they want control over how their organization runs.
I mean, part of my job is just identifying services we're currently overpaying for. I can take that down to a very fine-grained level with AWS. Why would I want to pay someone else to hide that information from me?
"The edge" is like "no-code visual programming language". No one seriously wants convenience over power; but it's a great marketing pitch.
2030 will not be the revenge of managed hosting brought to you by lazy corporations like Cloudflare. It will be distributed self-managed stacks running everywhere.