Yeah, just wait until that bites the brass in the ass. With lower-paid workers, you can teach them to push a limited set of buttons in a specific sequence, and if they keep messing up, just replace the staffers with fresh bodies that cooperate better. But right now, it seems like money is being thrown at what exactly? utter lack of skill. I've seen posts on these Forums (too lazy to look for links right now) that mention "senior engineers" who have no idea what a compiler is, much less understand how a firewall really works. That's supposedly the 'basement stuff supporting the cloud, everything's taken care of already, no need to really know what's going on there'.
Sure this works. Until it starts to backfire, e.g. because
In economy most curves do have turning points.
Sure. But this specific curve can also be avoided altogether. There are just different kinds of enterprises (or, the boards leading them). Those who think long-term, trying to build something durable and slowly increase value, and those who like to gamble, maybe including maximising personal profits over a short period of time and having some exit strategy in case it's going all upside down.
why should FreeBSD forums give a hoot about THAT?Looks like the hippie gets a quick understanding how the game is played.
The "FreeBSD forums" cannot give a hoot about ANYTHING as it is a virtual place.
How do I explain (how to connect the dots between my usage of the term 'FreeBSD Forums' and implying that it's the users of the said Forums giving a hoot about anything) ?
The users of the said forums are not a homogenous community that share (all) common values. For that reason you see a lot of different opinions hacking on each other.
Having fun with FreeBSD is enough of a common point that people gather here to see what others are doing, and meet other enthusiasts from all over this planet. Just treat it as shop talk. Yeah, there are ppl who can't take it, and lash out with a childish tantrum, or start acting sanctimoniously.
I thought this was a quality that binds us civilised UNIX-folk and sets us apart from that Linux rabble
So true. And these fads run through our industry like wildfire every so often. Dirty secret is that for all their talk of being "leaders" and "disruptors" most tech execs are herd cattle. They spook and go wherever the herd goes when there's a loud noise.
I wish more people understood this. Corporations are not bad or good, they're made to make money for their investors. If that means clubbing baby seals, it's curtains for the wet puppies. In the US publicly held corporations have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder profits. They can (and will!) be sued if they don't.
I'm truly sorry your career has been such a hellscape. Yeah, I had that job where Lumbergh took joy in making everyone miserable. I left and got a better job. I've even had some that were truly amazing. I enjoyed my co-workers' company so much we did lots of socializing after work and it was a blast. But yeah, those jobs are the minority.
I still sincerely doubt the "cloud" will do anything relevant about that. You still need people to manage all your "cloud assets". And in all but the most trivial scenarios, this will be just as much work (also because if your scenario is NOT trivial, you will have some need to keep some things "on premise", e.g. for regulatory reasons, and you will need to integrate all that zoo ....)
That's more like it. Cloud providers enable you to adapt and scale more or less "in an instant".
Yeah, but the logical thing to do in these situations is what is now called "hybrid cloud", but almost no one does that. I still think it's a combination of factors.
Sure. I'd just say this "scale quickly" factor is the most important advantage of "cloud" for most scenarios.
Just to clarify, I took cloud out of the scenario in my comment because I'm thinking about homelab setups.
This is the old rule. This is no longer valid, it has changed with the Internet.
And everybody is happy with that situation. (Except a few anarchists like me.)
Thanks for the feedback - I need that occasionally. Seems my reality tv isn't so far off reality.
really? ebay and Amazon are a couple big ones, computer makers still sell via their own web sites, there's AliExpress, and the like... even online marketplaces have to line up logistics to deliver stuff to customers. It took forever for Amazon/UPS to get their act together and not make package delivery a hit-and-miss proposition in the US.
I doubt that. At least I could enumerate the other factions, and indeed they are all happy with the situation.
Yes, and pettifoggery doesn't change anything, just as lukewarm neither-neither doesn't.
and what will you specifically do about that once you have the information?
