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The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced - Tom Delalande (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

The cloud is over-engineered and over-priced for personal projects and small groups. If you're a larger company and want high-availability and speed globally, then you're probably wanting a cloud provider nowadays unless you're really wanting to manage hardware yourself.

Setting up your own website for fun or something for your local business obviously doesn't need a fancy Kubernetes setup in EKS. Hell, even a moderate business could be fine if you're not expecting usage spikes or latency issues (although you'd probably want more than a repurposed desktop).

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How many companies need such a scale, but are not able to provide it inhouse for less money?

Everyone wants to be Netflix, but 99% of companies don't even need close to that amount of scalability. I'd argue, a significant part of projects could be run on a raspberry pi, if they'd be engineered properly.

[–] hotelbravo722@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

I mean IMO Raspberry Pi cluster are the future. Low power, cheap CPU's/Ram that are capable of running containerized workloads.

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