> She also noted that when you search on these terms the main engines (all run by cloud service providers) return poor results not congruent with the scale of the phenomenon. They are dominated by the opposite message obviously heavily SEO'd up to the top, plus shill pieces pushing cloud services but presented as "critical". Dig deep if you want to find the real scale of the "anti-cloud" issues.
Are you really suggesting that search engine providers are manipulating their own search results to bury some sort of hidden "truth" about a people leaving the cloud? Suggesting that people need to "dig deep" to find the real scale of the issue sounds a lot like the "do your own research" line that gets attached to dubious conspiracy theories.
The simple explanation is that your student simply anchored her personal beliefs to an idea that this was a large movement, but her light research didn't match her pre-conceived beliefs. This is how conspiracy theories are born.
Regardless, this claim doesn't hold up to even basic scrutiny. I just Googled for "cloud repatriation" and all of the results are think pieces about why moving out of the cloud is a good thing.
Try it for yourself: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cloud+repatriation%22&oq=...
> A good example was the broadcast industry. Entire branches of that industry doing post-production, colour, transcoding, and whatnot moved it all out to AWS. After price hikes, they wanted to go back to running their own services. But they can't. Because nobody knows about how to set-up and run that any longer - especially specialist things like buffers and transcoders. I mean, try finding a sys-admin who can just do simple tasks like set up and properly configure a mail server these days.
If you can't find sysadmins with basic competencies or engineers who can build systems as simple as buffering and transcoding, I can almost guarantee that the real issue is that you're not paying enough for the position.
Either that, or the applicants can recognize from a mile away that your company is not the kind of place that skilled engineers actually want to work for.
Don't mistake your lack of candidates for a lack of skill in the market.
Are you really suggesting that search engine providers are manipulating their own search results to bury some sort of hidden "truth" about a people leaving the cloud? Suggesting that people need to "dig deep" to find the real scale of the issue sounds a lot like the "do your own research" line that gets attached to dubious conspiracy theories.
The simple explanation is that your student simply anchored her personal beliefs to an idea that this was a large movement, but her light research didn't match her pre-conceived beliefs. This is how conspiracy theories are born.
Regardless, this claim doesn't hold up to even basic scrutiny. I just Googled for "cloud repatriation" and all of the results are think pieces about why moving out of the cloud is a good thing.
Try it for yourself: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cloud+repatriation%22&oq=...
> A good example was the broadcast industry. Entire branches of that industry doing post-production, colour, transcoding, and whatnot moved it all out to AWS. After price hikes, they wanted to go back to running their own services. But they can't. Because nobody knows about how to set-up and run that any longer - especially specialist things like buffers and transcoders. I mean, try finding a sys-admin who can just do simple tasks like set up and properly configure a mail server these days.
If you can't find sysadmins with basic competencies or engineers who can build systems as simple as buffering and transcoding, I can almost guarantee that the real issue is that you're not paying enough for the position.
Either that, or the applicants can recognize from a mile away that your company is not the kind of place that skilled engineers actually want to work for.
Don't mistake your lack of candidates for a lack of skill in the market.