Running away from internal IT works until they inevitably catch up to the escapees. At $dayjob the time required to spin up a single cloud VM is now measured in years. I’ve seen projects take so long that the cloud vendor started sending deprecation notices half way through for their tech stacks but they forged ahead anyway because it’s “too hard to steer that ship”.
The current “runners” are heading towards SaaS platforms like Salesforce, which is like the cloud but with ten times worse lock in.
The current “runners” are heading towards SaaS platforms like Salesforce, which is like the cloud but with ten times worse lock in.