However, I can't count many companies I've seen decide to get into "the cloud" only to do lift-and-shifts and are now running their stack in slower and more expensive ways.
There's a reason this youtube video exists and it's because people get into hype and then are saddled with technical debt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Over the last decade I worked for a fintech that did analytics for the investment banking industry and between 2016-2020 the amount of people that were shocked we weren't trying to shove blockchain somewhere was surreal.
I’m pretty sure the majority of HN thinks that even hosting directly on EC2 is for NIH adventurers only.
If you want to be successful in your career, when you are put in charge of a big new project, on a tight timeline, high management visibility, etc.. you dig into your existing tried & true toolkit to get the job done. There's so many other variables, why needlessly add more risk no one asked for?
But yes, I'm glad there are maniacs out there.. I just don't want to work with them.
Contrast this with frameworks that are created for the framework's own sake, hoping to attract its first application developers.
Haha. Yes. But when the c-suite is made up of top level management pushed out of the s&p 500, they always assume it’s their tried and true toolkit from another company. Believe me, it’s never the hammer the current engineering staff is holding. I’m slow clapping so hard for the business school graduates right now…