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I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck (loudwhisper.me)

submitted 4 months ago by loudwhisper@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I hope this won't be counted as some form of self-promotion, even though I am sharing a post from my own blog.

As a tech worker who works in a Cloud shop, I wanted to elaborate the many reasons why I find working with Clouds terrible, from multiple points of view.

I tried to organize my thoughts in a (relatively long) post, in which both technical aspects and political aspects (which are very related) are covered.

I am sure many people will have different perspectives, and this could be potentially also a nice prompt for a discussion.

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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

No one's talking about secret incantations.

They're talking about knowing how your applications actually work, so you're not tied to the whims of a third party.

[-] Tja@programming.dev -2 points 4 months ago

Hence or anything like that.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

If people don't know what your systems actually do, you're going to have huge problems at some point.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

Where did I request for "not knowing what systems do"?

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's literally the entire chain you clicked down.

The fact that cloud provider calls aren't based in any kind of core principles and force you to spend all your resources understanding their nonsensical structure instead of what your code actually does.

[-] Tja@programming.dev -1 points 4 months ago

Wrong. You don't know how it's implemented, but you very much know what they do. Even heard about abstraction?

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Abstraction is great. When it's meaningful.

Cloud abstraction adds massive complexity that has no correlation to what your code does.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

An di shouldn't. Separation of concerns.

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