Five values guiding our cloud exit

> We spend our money wisely. The cost of cloud is grotesque in several key instances. Whether it's big-iron databases, large NVMe storage, or just the latest, fastest compute, we're paying as much to rent the donkey every few months as it would cost to buy it. When that's the case, you should own the donkey! We will spend our money on our own hardware and our own people. Everything else will get the squeeze.

Yet he continues to use Ruby for everything and finds the most asinine justifications and complicated workarounds like Russian doll caching (https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/04/03/russian-doll-caching-i..., https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3690-the-performance-impact-o...) to make a simple page/app performant.

At the end of the day DHH is a person who values his own opinion more than anything else and he will go to lengths to confirm his own bias and justify his ways by whatever argumentation he can scramble together to look less foolish.