I feel mainframes were a lot simpler and more robust than the present day tech stacks that’s a lot more complex.
To your point, if one update can bring down businesses across goes, something is very wrong.
My wife has been working all night for the last couple of days, and some of her clients PCs haven’t been restored yet.
What’s worse? Their entire Ops run on Azure. Azure was down too - they could not even recover their apps on the DR as that was down too!
Something is very wrong with the dependency on/monopoly of one OS and cloud in general.
They said cloud will be inexpensive and everyone started migrating. Now cloud is turning out to be more expensive than on prem with all their variable costs.
Plus, we’re 100% dependent on a third party for our business critical operations and data!
Thank you, Guru! I hope your wife has been able to get some rest today.
It’s alarming how many single points of failure exist in any tech stack, and the likelihood of concurrent downtime is much higher than we often acknowledge when things are running smoothly.
Thanks for sharing your experiences about the migration to the cloud. It's really insightful. We’ve definitely reached a tipping point where the concentration of risk and current business models are becoming untenable. It will be interesting to see how new technologies or decentralized solutions can address these issues.
Great write up!
I used to be a mainframe developer decades ago.
I feel mainframes were a lot simpler and more robust than the present day tech stacks that’s a lot more complex.
To your point, if one update can bring down businesses across goes, something is very wrong.
My wife has been working all night for the last couple of days, and some of her clients PCs haven’t been restored yet.
What’s worse? Their entire Ops run on Azure. Azure was down too - they could not even recover their apps on the DR as that was down too!
Something is very wrong with the dependency on/monopoly of one OS and cloud in general.
They said cloud will be inexpensive and everyone started migrating. Now cloud is turning out to be more expensive than on prem with all their variable costs.
Plus, we’re 100% dependent on a third party for our business critical operations and data!
Thank you, Guru! I hope your wife has been able to get some rest today.
It’s alarming how many single points of failure exist in any tech stack, and the likelihood of concurrent downtime is much higher than we often acknowledge when things are running smoothly.
Thanks for sharing your experiences about the migration to the cloud. It's really insightful. We’ve definitely reached a tipping point where the concentration of risk and current business models are becoming untenable. It will be interesting to see how new technologies or decentralized solutions can address these issues.