as a one person platform team (bare metal cluster + hpc resources); this article while super impressive gave me a kind of anxiety attack. I can barely keep the fires out and geez, look how much better it could be. There's hope for some at least.
Put the phone away & magically there is time in the day. People have a lot more time than they're aware of but fill it by normally numbing out.
fixed that for you
Every company and team operate under different circumstances that might not be in their control. It's a company effort, not only engineering, to get in to a position where using public cloud or buy it of the shelf products is possible.
Having both skilled legal and sales + business colleagues is key but a luxury in these situations.
I will keep an eye out for opportunities though..
Is there some place where we can exchange info and best practices?