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tempest_ ◴[] No.45661573[source]
The cloud has made people forget how far you can get with a single machine.

Hosting staging envs in pricey cloud envs seems crazy to me but I understand why you would want to because modern clouds can have a lot of moving parts.

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adgjlsfhk1 ◴[] No.45662794[source]
also how far you can get with a single machine has changed massively in the past 15 years. 15 years ago a (really beefy) single machine meant 8 cores with 256GB ram and a couple TB of storage. Now a single machine can be 256 cores on 8TB of ram and a PB of storage.
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1. wild_egg ◴[] No.45669174[source]
I saw a twitter thread recently where someone tried to make this point to someone shilling AWS spaghetti architectures. They were subsequently dog-piled into oblivion but the mental gymnastics people can do around this subject is a sight to behold.

Simplicity is uncomfortable to a lot of people when they're used to doing things the hard way.