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So the whole thing is well worth a read IMO, and addresses a lot of the issues I have with cloud as the solution for everything.
There are absolutely companies who need the scaling. But it's a fucking lot of overhead if you don't.
This is similar to all the LLM code stuff. If you don't actually fully understand what your code does, bad stuff happens.
I was going to bring up basically this point:
But you covered it pretty well. Abstractions are great. Proprietary abstractions that are more focused on how they can bill you than real, useful, functional categories? Not so much.
So there's a level of rent seeking behind all the software moving to subscriptions, and them wanting to lock you in just like their service providers are doing to them. But I have to think the massive costs of cloud junk also pay a role in stuff like a calendar charging double digit annual fees for something that takes very little storage and very little computation (and you of course can't just buy software any more).
I have no words for multi-cloud. Even like a Facebook or YouTube scale site, are you really going to double (or more for some reason?) your storage costs (plus whatever intercommunication between the two), just in case the provider goes down for a couple hours (which is extremely rare, and you won't be the only site impacted, so people won't really blame you for.) Plus that architecture sounds like the shitshow to end all shitshows.
Agreed on it all.
I think a big driver for cloud clients is bean counters - cloud is an expense, while having your own systems is capital investment.
They'd rather have the waste of leasing too much compute than have to pay taxes on systems plus the cost of staff to run it.
We won't really see this get addressed until companies have to truly own the risks they take on (see all the hacks that happen on a daily basis because CIO won't pay for the security that IT management is screaming to build). When fines for these breaches are meaningful, cloud will be less interesting.