Ran into this. Was constantly denied time to properly load test and configure things. So it all went in with default values and high resources. Then they got the bill, throttled everything down, and then normal compute processing was missing SLAs measured in half-days.
But look on the bright side. Every minute of the day programmers were typing, creating value, instead of wasting company money reading or thinking.
Sadly, reading and thinking, which is half of a programmers job, is often undervalued
a programmer’s* job
Cloud has some great features. Important to know what they are. Also important to know if you need those features and what the cheapest and best ways to get them are.
I love the meme. Good job.
Would it be a poor professional choice to send this to my bosses boss who’s current raison d’etre is getting our product on the cloud? I ask because I get the alert emails when we go over budget. And we always go over budget.
Make another meme, maybe like that “days without an accident” counter…. Except it’s months without going over cloud budget
Then tell him that you made it, and that it’s true.
I’d you just try to “lift and shift” to the cloud instead of engineering a solution that fits your needs, then you won’t find cost savings or risk reduction (and like you mentioned in the meme, vendor lock in can even increase risk) which makes it pointless, it does have its place but it’s often a ham fisted and half baked bill of goods sold to the bean counters instead of the infrastructure and dev teams and is worse in the long run
I’m a big fan of proxmox
I going find it hilarious that a small amount of cloud costs the same as a hugely resourced hyper converged proxmox private cloud
I’m currently using both but proxmox is the powerhouse
