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"Simplify to succeed and Complicate to profit"

-- (likely) Tim Ferris.

I sat out of the cloud hoopla and it cost me opportunities - Now, I am dragging my feet into it to be employable.. but the Anti-Cloud (River?) is going to be a concept. 39 signals already did a blog post and change in strategy.

I look forward to the economically lean years of 2023 and 2024 and HN front page articles about how moving away from Cloud and owning your own server is saving 'millions'.




> I sat out of the cloud hoopla and it cost me opportunities - Now, I am dragging my feet into it to be employable.

This. I work on sensors, signal processing and multi-sensor data and could always get a local prototyping rig. But the cloud got so big that I have to be at least somewhat comfortable with working in it just to stay employable.

Before sharing anything I check that it works in a Jupyter notebook running in a docker hosted on AWS getting data from some cloud bucket. But for real work I switch to Vim on a local machine with a few TBs of sensor data to experiment on and enjoy an order of magnitude speed improvement.

> I look forward to the economically lean years of 2023 and 2024 and HN front page articles about how moving away from Cloud and owning your own server is saving 'millions'.

I think there is a strong business case for this. Probably not fully off-cloud, but streamlining cloud portions for cost efficiency and going away from keeping everything in the cloud "because zero ingress costs". My 2c.


Per a recruiting email I received last year, I believe anti-cloud computing is called "fog computing".




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