serverlessmom
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Comment · 2 years ago
lol that was me, finally upgraded! love the service!
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah. My dad had told me more than one horror story of early tech startups buying truckloads of hardware to scale way beyond demand growth. And I remember when getting on Slashdot meant your service would inevitably go down.
Of course, given stable demand and known requirements, bare metal can be a great option. But it’s not strictly better than public cloud hosting.
I think it’s just been long enough that people have forgotten the limitations of bare metal engineering.
A partial documentation is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltpetre_works
A better narrative of this industry is in Ed Conway's book "Material World" https://edconway.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-material-worl...