https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010
"Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then
shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we
were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise
service contracts. The mission was set!
A month later, we placed an order for $600,000 worth of Dell servers to carry
our exit, and did the math to conservatively estimate $7 million in savings
over the next five years. We also detailed the larger values, beyond just cost,
that was driving our cloud exit. Things like independence and loyalty to the
original ethos of the internet.
Still in February, we announced the new tool I had bootstrapped in a few weeks
to take us out of the cloud – without giving up on all the innovation in
containers and operating principles from the cloud. This was the introduction
of Kamal.
Shortly thereafter, all the hardware we needed for our cloud exit arrived on
pallets in our two geographically-dispersed data centers. All 4,000 vCPUs,
7,680GB of RAM, and 384TB of NVMe storage of it!
And then, in June, it was done. We had left the cloud."
Via Kristian and Kenny Chaffin.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
