> How do you know it doesn't? You've only looked at it from your use case
So you didn’t see the rest of the paragraph that you snipped?
“unless you’re something like Backblaze, DropBox or another company where your entire reason for existing is your infrastructure expertise.”
> So your on-prem is slow does not equal all on-prem is bad?
How fast can you spin up a dozen VMs? A message bus? A scalable database with read replicas? An entire redundant data center in another region? A few terabytes of storage? A redis cluster? An ElasticSearch cluster? A CDN? A few load balancers?
The procurement process to get an extra server provision in a colo will by definition be slower than my deploying a CloudFormation stack.
So you didn’t see the rest of the paragraph that you snipped?
“unless you’re something like Backblaze, DropBox or another company where your entire reason for existing is your infrastructure expertise.”
> So your on-prem is slow does not equal all on-prem is bad?
How fast can you spin up a dozen VMs? A message bus? A scalable database with read replicas? An entire redundant data center in another region? A few terabytes of storage? A redis cluster? An ElasticSearch cluster? A CDN? A few load balancers? The procurement process to get an extra server provision in a colo will by definition be slower than my deploying a CloudFormation stack.