▲ 125 ▼ What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry? (lemmy.world) submitted 8 months ago by slazer2au@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 278 comments fedilink hide all child comments Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 30 points 7 months ago (4 children) Weird i haven't seen this one yet: the cloud is just someone else's computers. permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) It is, but I’m ready to officially throw in the towel and embrace the fact that running your own hardware is not much more than a hobby these days. I’ve preached and preached the value of multi or hybrid cloud, only for the people with money to pour it down the same hole time and time again. I’ve always said IT is essentially an entirely CYA driven industry. Having someone to blame is more valuable for them than uptime, and if they can show their outages, even if the numbers suck, was not their fault (easy to do when all your competitors are down at the same time), it’s all good… Update- lol, YouTube is currently down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago Geopolitics is kind of coming to the rescue, since it's bad if your server is subject to a hostile power's laws. Although it remains to be seen if there's fundamental change, or just what we call in Canada "maplewashing". permalink fedilink source parent [–] hamsda@feddit.org 8 points 7 months ago If you're selfhosting, the cloud is your someone else's computer ;) permalink fedilink source parent [–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago (1 child) Hardly a hot take really... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 child) OP didn't really ask for a hot take... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) It was kind of implied, though. How do you die on a hill if nobody's fighting you? Is it just a hill suicide? That wasn't in any war I've read about. I guess Life of Brian had something a bit like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Dying on the hill doesn't mean it has to be controversial or a "hot take" IMO, but whatever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (2 children) ...which are much more secure than yours ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago Riiight... downtime in the big clouds is totally not a thing and databreaches unheard of. permalink fedilink source parent [–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 point 7 months ago They have tighter security because they are bigger targets. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) It is, but I’m ready to officially throw in the towel and embrace the fact that running your own hardware is not much more than a hobby these days. I’ve preached and preached the value of multi or hybrid cloud, only for the people with money to pour it down the same hole time and time again. I’ve always said IT is essentially an entirely CYA driven industry. Having someone to blame is more valuable for them than uptime, and if they can show their outages, even if the numbers suck, was not their fault (easy to do when all your competitors are down at the same time), it’s all good… Update- lol, YouTube is currently down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago Geopolitics is kind of coming to the rescue, since it's bad if your server is subject to a hostile power's laws. Although it remains to be seen if there's fundamental change, or just what we call in Canada "maplewashing". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago Geopolitics is kind of coming to the rescue, since it's bad if your server is subject to a hostile power's laws. Although it remains to be seen if there's fundamental change, or just what we call in Canada "maplewashing". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hamsda@feddit.org 8 points 7 months ago If you're selfhosting, the cloud is your someone else's computer ;) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago (1 child) Hardly a hot take really... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 child) OP didn't really ask for a hot take... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) It was kind of implied, though. How do you die on a hill if nobody's fighting you? Is it just a hill suicide? That wasn't in any war I've read about. I guess Life of Brian had something a bit like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Dying on the hill doesn't mean it has to be controversial or a "hot take" IMO, but whatever. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 child) OP didn't really ask for a hot take... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) It was kind of implied, though. How do you die on a hill if nobody's fighting you? Is it just a hill suicide? That wasn't in any war I've read about. I guess Life of Brian had something a bit like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Dying on the hill doesn't mean it has to be controversial or a "hot take" IMO, but whatever. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) It was kind of implied, though. How do you die on a hill if nobody's fighting you? Is it just a hill suicide? That wasn't in any war I've read about. I guess Life of Brian had something a bit like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Dying on the hill doesn't mean it has to be controversial or a "hot take" IMO, but whatever. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Dying on the hill doesn't mean it has to be controversial or a "hot take" IMO, but whatever. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (2 children) ...which are much more secure than yours ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago Riiight... downtime in the big clouds is totally not a thing and databreaches unheard of. permalink fedilink source parent [–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 point 7 months ago They have tighter security because they are bigger targets. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago Riiight... downtime in the big clouds is totally not a thing and databreaches unheard of. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 point 7 months ago They have tighter security because they are bigger targets. permalink fedilink source parent