Migrating to Public Cloud

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"Netflix could not build new datacenters fast enough."

Seriously? We're supposed to believe that? No, they chose not to spend the money required to do so. If there continue to be enough datacenters for Netflix, then it -is- possible to build them fast enough.

There are many advantages to moving to the cloud. There's no reason to say things that are so obviously false.

To me that quote sounds like Netflix didn't have enough time between when it found out the capacity was needed and when the capacity was needed to build datacenters. So they had a problem with data center build latency and not throughput.

I think it is more to do with the engineers/people than money or resources.

Adrian Cockcroft will be speaking at the "Talk Cloudy to Me" event today: http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/16701362/ - swing on by if you're near Mountain View!

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