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Watching companies like Microsoft and AWS continue to fuck up at massive scale and orgs are just like "what can you do?" and keep shoveling money to them is very exhausting.
schrotthaufen@cR0w @Viss Every time something like this happens, and upper management asks how I plan to deal with things like this in the future, I reply “By telling you what I’ve told you with every could / SaaS outage we’ve experienced so far: Nothing. Unless you give us time, and money to host everything we need ourselves. This would include migrating away from Atlassian, and Microsoft.” To which they respond without fail: “We’ll just accept the risk then.”
Viss@schrotthaufen @cR0w "self hosting is the answer. it will cost less, but it will take more time. thats the tradeoff. either we host it, and shoulder all the work for the fabric and storage and power, and have total control - or .. we dont. pick one."
@schrotthaufen @cR0w the more one-sentence, plain english you can get, the more it will land. you have to be authoritative and matter-of-fact about it.
"look. you can trust them, or you can trust your staff. if you trust them, youre screwed when they fuck up. if you trust your staff, you have someone whos job is on the line. the person who job is on the line will care more about their work than some random cloud engineer"