Comment by ryandvm
7 months ago
Obviously this makes sense from a dog-fooding perspective because the cloud provider (Microsoft) owns the product (Github), but I'm always surprised when very capable tech companies decide they aren't capable of running bare metal.
Running your own servers was never rocket science, it was literally the only option 20 years ago. Every startup used to have a rack of servers in a closet.
I have always thought of cloud hosting as something you do because you cannot afford a full-time ops team so it's wild to me that companies like Netflix decide that they literally don't have the operational expertise to manage servers.
It’s not that they don’t have it. It’s that they don’t want it.
I agree with this. It makes total sense for startup, but not for large profitable company, full of smart people. Look at Basecamp cloud exit, good example.