ティージェーグレェ「teajaygrey」 on Nostr: The reality: cloud doesn't change the friction of adding capacity. It just moves who ...
The reality: cloud doesn't change the friction of adding capacity.
It just moves who has to care about it.
Some poor s.o.b. at Amazon, overworked and underpaid, still has to do capacity planning for AWS.
It just isn't someone within your organization. So, you can pretend the friction doesn't exist.
In my experience: it's smarter to care about what actually causes friction in regulatory or punitive measures.
So, for example, if you are working in an IT for a company that routinely works with auditors? Outsourcing your accounting software to a hosting provider which specializes in accounting, means you can offload your IT team's concerns about whatever the financial auditors are because you can point them in the direction of the hosting provider.
In some instances (e.g. maybe FIPS or HIPAA sorts of regulatory compliance) maybe similar things can be outsourced with similar trade offs?
But at the end of the day: you're always going to have some ingress points. Laptops, mobile devices, and you can't outsource everything.
So, picking your battles where they matter is helpful.
Generally speaking, in my experience: it's best to have as much autonomy and control over your systems as possible and outsource as little as possible.
The cost of doing business is not trivial, but there are reasons I don't run my own businesses. My personal goals are not aligned with capitalism.
It just moves who has to care about it.
Some poor s.o.b. at Amazon, overworked and underpaid, still has to do capacity planning for AWS.
It just isn't someone within your organization. So, you can pretend the friction doesn't exist.
In my experience: it's smarter to care about what actually causes friction in regulatory or punitive measures.
So, for example, if you are working in an IT for a company that routinely works with auditors? Outsourcing your accounting software to a hosting provider which specializes in accounting, means you can offload your IT team's concerns about whatever the financial auditors are because you can point them in the direction of the hosting provider.
In some instances (e.g. maybe FIPS or HIPAA sorts of regulatory compliance) maybe similar things can be outsourced with similar trade offs?
But at the end of the day: you're always going to have some ingress points. Laptops, mobile devices, and you can't outsource everything.
So, picking your battles where they matter is helpful.
Generally speaking, in my experience: it's best to have as much autonomy and control over your systems as possible and outsource as little as possible.
The cost of doing business is not trivial, but there are reasons I don't run my own businesses. My personal goals are not aligned with capitalism.