Comment by anovikov
5 years ago
Yeah i read stories that Yahoo in 1990s called itself a media company and it's product managers "producers" out of fear that once you call yourself a software company - Microsoft will crush you...
As for using clouds - there is absolutely no point in the world to use them for anything above staging level, or very very low level launches. People should switch away from cloud as soon as they see even tentative signs of a product-market fit.
You will save so, so much money switching away from clouds too.
No, you don't need to use a hundred different AWS/GCP/whatever services, and yes, managing your own infrastructure is a lot easier than you think (and sometimes easier/faster than AWS).
The Stack Exchange network, at least around 2018 or so, was hosted on 12 servers they own!
Completely agree. The clouds are still very comfortable for development though, and i use them a lot. But i'd never even think of using cloud in production.