I too have found the issue of scaling consulting to be insurmountable, but there are others who have succeeded.
One key factor would be to take someone, no matter how junior and start charging for him at least the normal if not senior rate straight away - that way this is profitable from day 1.
I was never brazen enough to do it and training people off project for free doesn't generally happen anywhere else so it's a huge disadvantage - start charging from day 1 (or don't hire if you can't).
Roll the dice? What are the consequences for you, especially if you can shift the blame?
What are the odds of you having better uptime rolling your own tooling?
Can you afford the complexity of multi cloud?
Is the added complication worth it?
Very anectodal, but some things are better on Azure, because they were late to the party, for example azure blob storage.
It costs the same as s3, but it supports journaling, so you can do journal archives.
You can run your main thing on aws and keep backups on azure.
If you wanted backups with journaling on AWS, you'd have to use EFS at minimum, which is orders of magnitude more expensive.
You're looking at historical data to infer the future. If it was so simple you could predict tomorrow's lottery our stock movements.
In reality, circumstances have changed and there little incentive to go public, there's fixed costs and public scrutiny from unsophisticated investor and bystanders. Now is not the same as previous dip.
Like any sane person, I totally accept the global warming is real and most likely mostly man made. But rather than fighting that change which is already underway, can we not adapt to the higher temperatures and entropy? I appreciate that there's lots of side effects that we see as disastrous, but generally warmer = better for life in many parts of the earth.
Most likely the positive outcomes of global warming do not outweight the negatives, but it looks like relatively very little attention is paid to what is most natural course of action - adaptation.
Funny enough I went from exactly that to gitlab+netlify setup.
You get loads out of the box, HTTPS being the big one.
In case you didn't get the reference, the other comment was the top comment for dropbox when it announced funding. In theory yes you can still roll your own dropbox, but we all have limited resources and dropbox and netlify make things so much easier that it's worth paying them money to do it right on the first try and not worry about maintenance.
There's the media posturing and then there's reality. A lot of people in Poland have not had any contact with other cultures and make inappropriate jokes about that, those who traveled a bit are totally ok with it, the last 20 years introduced a lot more multiculturalism but there's still ways to go.
The leading right-wing political party is a data driven monsters - they will build their policy on whatever gets them seats in parliament and local elections.
One the most successful right wing policies in Poland right now is 500+ - a form of Universal Basic Income for every family with children. This clearly a very socialist idea, but introduced by a 'conservative' party. My point is the conservative party, like most of Poles are very pragmatic and generally will do what works rather than being too principled. If you understand that, you'll gel well with the society in Poland.
have you actually been around Krakow much? There's climbing spots in the city itself, skiing slopes 1-2 hours away, Tatra mountains 100km away and beautiful Jurrasic valleys to the North-West, lots of green areas in the city and huge forests to the East, perfect for cycling or running.
Weather is a mix - some snow in the winter, some lovely sunshine in the 6 warmer months and lots of rain and in-between weather on the bright side it does give you some time to work where you don't mind being indoors and you get to appreciate when it's nice outside.
healthcare + mandatory pension contributions are $130 for the first two years of running the business here.
After two years you should get a good feeling of whether you can make the larger $350 payments.
IMO with any decent income, the relatively low tax rate 19% makes up for the fixed costs of healthcare.
$130 is still peanuts compared to a medical insurance in the USA
While that's true, there's a long tail of older people still trusting the Church a lot and there's a knock on effect where children are still sent to learn 'religion' at school. I think it will be some decades before the society becomes truly secular and not sure if that's better, the only thing that's replacing religion right now is consumerism, which IMO is even worse for keeping the society as a whole...
It's an old cliché, but car analogies rarely work for explaining computer phenomena.
You won't be running a 1000 little kubernetes cars, and that's what k8s approach is all about running thousands of disposable little servers at Google scale.
With any car it's about making that single car more reliable or performant.
K8s doesn't care about reliability of any single instance, just the uptime of the whole service
Perhaps I've been eating the 'devops' cookies for too long, but live editing doesn't replace git and versioning. Even if you're running only 'latest' version and your product is hosted, you still need versions and to be able to roll back (or forward) and to know which nodes are running which version.
So something like glitch for fast prototyping - sure, but IMO it doesn't replace a real production workflow.
Institutional investors = lots of money desperate for positive (inflation adjusted) returns.
The earth doesn't get any bigger and somehow the whole world economy is currently built on the expectation of perpetual growth.
The only sane reason that AirBnb or Uber are worth as much is that they promise to be more efficient than traditional companies. SO the 'market' pays for efficiently and a lot of digital revolution has been all about making existing processes slightly more efficient (Amazon online shopping experience vs physically going to the different shops etc)
So the market definitely value the efficiency where the cost of developing that efficiency does not outweigh the benefits.
Typing speed and cursor refresh are not limiting factors for programmers so there's diminishing return in making text editors refresh >120hz. Simple business logic and OP can lament as much as he wants to but we have limited resources, mostly time and that time is usually better spent writing business logic than optimising text editor for the 100th time.
and also calculating the cost savings if any. On a technical level the whole exercise seems to lead to a slightly more elegant, consistent code base, but it's still a long way from earning or saving any actual money.
Smart contract do not override existing law os if there's sanctions for say selling PS3s to Iranians, even if smart contract could let you do that, it wouldn't be legal. In any case the existing case law in the US and UK already has it that a contract does not have to written down to exist so if you're pretty sure things are going to go well - say mowing the lawn, you can go ahead and just enter the contract with nothing written down (an no need for smart contract either)
I was in the unfavourable position of trying to implement a commercial, performance product on top of a triple store with OWL inferencing.
It was unworkable. A slightest error in the entire dataset was able to break inferencing elsewhere (butterfly effect), not to mention the performance.
We worked out the performance, by adding layers of caching but the data correctness is in my view unrealistic.
I'd always wondered if crypto exchanges actually bother to buy the crypto that you ask them to. For most people they wouldn't know the difference as eventually they'll withdraw in fiat money anyway