> And guess how long it takes me to set up an entire data center with Terraform on any of the three major cloud providers? (disclaimer: I work for one of them)?
And the discussion is how much extra do you pay for it.
> Hint: we didn’t, everything just scaled by itself.
Again it's not free so what's the surprise? Are you surprised that you get water out of your tap? Hint: it just flows!
> I compare that to the old days when it took us weeks to provision an MySQL server.
Sounds like you've burnt in the past is all. So your on-prem is slow does not equal all on-prem is bad?
> Managing infrastructure is doesn’t provide a competitive advantage
How do you know it doesn't? You've only looked at it from your use case and based on it making you happy and saving you time. Nothing to do with the business needs at all.
And the discussion is how much extra do you pay for it.
> Hint: we didn’t, everything just scaled by itself.
Again it's not free so what's the surprise? Are you surprised that you get water out of your tap? Hint: it just flows!
> I compare that to the old days when it took us weeks to provision an MySQL server.
Sounds like you've burnt in the past is all. So your on-prem is slow does not equal all on-prem is bad?
> Managing infrastructure is doesn’t provide a competitive advantage
How do you know it doesn't? You've only looked at it from your use case and based on it making you happy and saving you time. Nothing to do with the business needs at all.