why is my deploy process so slow? ©_©=> 500k npm packages

Ray is tracing as fast as he can. 1 frame per minute and his hand is cramping.

Those not seeking the truth will never notice when it’s gone.

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I’m in this comic and I don’t like it.

I’d like to understand how self managing all the lower level components abstracted by the cloud is saving on headcount. Care to math that out for us?

The vast majority of on-prem infra is under-utilized, over-provisioned, and slow to adapt to the business. I spent a decade designing DC infra and the number of times I revisited a customer only to see their clusters running at 10% utilization was very, very common. Digging into their capacity planning processes didn’t help. Every team built in safety buffers to a point they could’ve sustained growth well beyond the lifecycle of the hardware. Convincing half a dozen leaders their budget would be better spent elsewhere, even coming from the sales engineer, was like pulling teeth. They were so much more afraid of getting blocked on their next capex request, they pushed for as much as they could get at outrageous growth expectations to prevent the off chance their team capacity constrained revenue growth.

I get you that it’s easy to do the same in the cloud, but you can’t return and on-prem server. A cloud VM, just shut it down and you’re done.

AWS talks about minimizing undifferentiated heavy lifting as a reason to adopted managed services and I find that largely to be true. The majority of companies aren’t differentiating their services via some low-level technology advantage that allows them to cost less. It’s a different purchasing model, a smoother workflow, or a unique insight into data. The value an organization provides to customers should be the primary focus of the business, the rest is a means to sharpen that focus.

Not to vibe check you homie, but are you asking these people about network layer security and they’re having trouble with it?

😎 If you’re not compiling your own kernel 🏋🏼‍♂️ you’re missing out on substantial gains 💪🏼. Just drink a little Nix shake in the morning 🤙🏼, then hit your favorite systemd alternative GitHub pages and pull the nightly. You’ll be so swole bro, you’ll be Goddify. 🎶