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Welcome to Episode 128

Main Topic

1. Blog by David Heinemeier Hansson https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0\\xa0
   1. He\\u2019s a Danish programmer, and the Creator of Ruby on Rails
   2. He is also co-founder of both Basecamp and HEY
      1. https://basecamp.com/\\xa0
      2. https://hey.com/\\xa0
   3. And, an Author
      1. https://basecamp.com/books/rework\\xa0
      2. https://basecamp.com/books/calm/\\xa0
      3. https://basecamp.com/books/remote/\\xa0
      4. https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real/\\xa0
   1. Basecamp has been at least partially in the cloud for a long time
   2. HEY was started in the cloud.
   3. Various platforms and technologies
      1. Bare vms
      2. K8s
      3. Google
      4. Amazon
   4. \\u201cRenting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth.\\u201d
   5. Two ends of the scale:
      1. Low-end, when your application is simple, low workloads, you benefit from the simplicity of managed services
      2. Irregular \\u201cbursty\\u201d end, where you have a certain sustained workload, but it has a tendency to burst, and then settle.\\xa0
   6. Middle of the scale:
      1. Workloads that have consistent traffic, and stable growth
   7. Cost vs Complexity
      1. A lot of server hardware could be bought for half a million a year
      2. Argument being, managing those servers.
      1. Half a million spend for HEY per year.\\xa0
      2. But how true is that, really?
   8. And then there\\u2019s centralization\\u2026
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   1. Who is David Heinemeier Hansson https://dhh.dk/?
   2. So what about this post.

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